Blasting from the Past

I'm conducting a minor experiment, to see if anyone ever bothered to change the most annoying things about the Internet. I mean, animated gifs are experiencing a renaissance, far beyond what we might have imagined back in the days of:

and:

(and on my old homepage):

But I found myself wondering today: do blinking text tags still work? Those were always loads of fun.

(Answer: apparently not in my browser)

Of course the best kind of tag was the
SCROLLING MARQUEE

Oh! What about rainbow text effects?

THIS IS WHAT THE INTERNET IS FOR!

Asian Spam Update

You may recall my attempt to reach out to the Asian Spammer community, in an attempt to understand their motivations and desires. Well, there's some news on that front. In the past few days, I've gotten four or five e-mail notifications that there were new Asian spam comments on my various recent posts, but when going to delete them, I find no such comments. So apparently Blogger is cracking down, which is fantastic.

As to the spammers: sorry guys. I've got no control over this one. Sayonara.

Grail Hunting

I'm just going to lay it out here: I would love to have a Carmen Sandiego game show jacket. It might be cool to have one of the actual ones, but I'm just shocked that no one out there is selling replicas. This is a world where I can represent the Blue Barracudas or show my Camp Anawanna pride, but I can't dress like a stylish gumshoe? Way to drop the ball, Internet.

Also, I have been unable to procure any of the Aggro Crag via eBay. I think we'd all love to own a glowing piece of the radical rock, and I'd prefer to get it without the use of bungee cords, if at all possible.