Author: timbatchelder

  • Bob Servant: the spammer’s nightmare

    Bob Servant – Official Website. This guy is hilarious. He has decided to write back to spammers and harass them into submission with bizarre ploys. Related articles hiding from spammers (ask.metafilter.com) Reddit Thinks I’m a Spammer (amir.rachum.com) Spammers flood Facebook’s own Help Center (nakedsecurity.sophos.com) 5 Popular Twitter Habits That Make You Look Like a Spammer…

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  • DownThemAll!: A great way to speed your downloads

    DownThemAll! :: Add-ons for Firefox. Best download manager in Rule The Web Related articles The Best of 3 Billion Add-on Downloads (mozilla.org) 11 Productivity Tools for Firefox (distilled.co.uk) Mozilla Firefox 17: better add-on security but some add-ons may break (ghacks.net) GMail Add-ons for FireFox (darcsfalcon.wordpress.com) Adblock Plus is the most popular Firefox addon (neowin.net) Firefox…

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  • Semiotics: the relevance of the social science of signs to modern business

    Semiotics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Related articles What Do Novelists Know Of Economics? (andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com) Can You Guess Which Neuroses These “Mental Spa Treatments” Cure? (bellasugar.com) 7 Tricks for a Great First Impression (inc.com) There’s no better master class on the semiotics of getting… (putthison.com) Structuralism (prmarketingcommunication.com) What is a ‘code’, and how might it…

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