überEllis.com

Some friends and I were having a good laugh at our "Pornstar names" recently. Taken from an email that made the rounds with instructions and the obligatory request to add yours on the list and send to all your friends. Here's how it works:

1. Take the name of your first pet as your pornstar first name.
2. Add your mother's maiden name as your porn last name.

Lol!

Only much later did it strike me; Is this really an innocent joke? Something about the questions seems very familiar. In fact, two of the most frequently used security questions on many websites are:

1. What is your first pets name?
2. What is your mother's maiden name?

What could be more convenient for the proficient phisher than list of email addresses tied to no less than two ways to retrieve a forgotten password..

The blogosphere (buzzword), especially the local blogosphere attempts meme (buzzword) after meme to get those precious rankings (buzzword) up. Spammers offer link exchanges daily to anyone who owns a domain. After all, who doesn't want to be seen on Google?

Cockeyed.com has blown my socks off again (I've blogged about them before). Cockeyed's A very well linked story is a short story with each of the words linked to url's submitted by his readers on a first come, first served basis. The three coollest words were up for grabs at eBay!

What an elegant method of value exhange without the ego stroking so common in blogs nowadays.

PS: The word back to ÜberEllis is seem. I was too late for lines :(