Steve and I, and perhaps others here, kill a lot of spam daily. It’s boring. I just killed Spam Number 15,511.

Spam has no value at all. No cleverness, no surprises, no genuine information, just mind-numbing, endless links to places you don’t want to go to, to see things you don’t want to see, and buy things you don’t want to buy.

Last week, I spotted one that I found mildly amusing. It stuck out like a Ferrari in a landfill. It was a genius on the short bus. It was a plea for help, and a selfless offer to assist us in making our site better. Here it is:

Hi, I’m novice here. Your forum is full of usefull information. But I can’t undestand, what is wrong with my messages - when previewing it I see some URLs that leeds to adult pages.

Yes, sites seem to be very intersing, but I’ll better use google to find such a sites.

Could you please advice me how to recover the problem. Maybe it’s a virus? Or maybe it’s a feature of your forums?

Please, do not delete my message. Maybe you advice me something and it will help others if they have the same trouble.

And then the message proceeds to hot-link to about 30 pron sites as examples. Whoever wrote this one has at least a rudimentary sense of whimsy.

I think my finer sensibilities have been totally degraded by this daily chore.

Despite its redeeming literary qualities, I killed it anyhow.

But I felt guilty, so I’m presenting it you now. It achieved publication on our site. Sort of.

Bob loves this photo. I thought it kind of went with Rory’s photo.

Well, kind of.

Okay, not really.

From the Edmonton Sun:

Even Samuel L. Jackson, who as an NSA agent tracking Christensen’s teleporter, doubts cameras are truly done rolling.

“I don’t know what they’re doing,” Jackson says. “I’m probably going to have to back and shoot more. I understand that’s how Doug Liman works. I understand he did the same thing on Mr. and Mrs. Smith and The Bourne Identity — he went back and did massive reshoots after he’d assembled it and looked at it.

“Maybe that’s his process. I’m just waiting for the call.”

link.

In the same article:

The Time Traveler’s Wife finally gets underway next week in Toronto under the aegis of New Line Cinema. And as they say in the theatre, for this performance, the parts of Henry and Claire — formerly belonging to Pitt and Aniston — will be played by Eric Bana and Canadian girl Rachel McAdams.