Berlusconi as EU Council President
Unfortunately
At Der Rollberg you can find the original article.
Archive 2. July 2003
I Love Me, vol. I
Michael O'Connor Clarke stumbled upon strange pages on the web full of gibberish. These pages contain seemingly randomly generated text content with links. He did some research into who owns the domains and discovered they're connected to Scientology. He's wondering what's going on. My theory: they're trying to improve their Google rankings for their main sites. Through many sites with content and links to each other, they get correspondingly good search positions. The random content could even be regularly refreshed, which Google would then rate as "actively maintained site with many inbound and outbound links." This way these link networks could boost other sites, but due to the random content they wouldn't show up in search results for more specific searches—for non-specific searches they'd get lost in the noise. Essentially stealth Google-bombing. Possibly to combat Operation Clambake? On the other hand, if you read through Operation Clambake and the original Scientology documents hosted there, it could also all be religious texts—they're almost as confusing.
Microsoft Word bytes Tony Blair in the butt
Hmm. A government-presented (and allegedly stolen) intelligence report on Iraq had been edited in Word. Unfortunately, the editors left traces behind. The creative minds who adapted the original document are now known by name.
Nazi jokes in the EU Parliament
Well, the troll from Italy is going to give us a lot of fun. It didn't take long before he showed what he's made of for the first time. He'll certainly fit very well with Dubya. At WDR.de you can find the original article.
Ringel new CEO of WestLB
Fits anyway. Ringelpietz was what they were doing before anyway.
At tagesschau im Internet I found the the original article.
Secret Santa terrorism
Ah yes. Apparently the CIA held a report secret for 30 years, according to which the Ebenezer Scrooge terrorist group was planning an attack on Santa Claus. Of course it was just a joke by a couple of silly spies, but it was kept secret nonetheless. Well, I think it probably had more truth to it than the reports about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, especially the British version of it.
I found the original article at Warblogs:CC.
SpamBayes Outlook Addin
Anyone who has to work with one of the devil's tools (I have to at work, for example) will be happy that the Outlook spam filter plugin written in Python now works really well with Outlook 2000 (and probably XP too). Not that I'd like to use Outlook, but I have no choice, I'm forced to ...