cityofsound

Help eliminate Spiced Ham

If, like me, you've put your email address on that Web at some point, you probably receive many messages a day promising plenty viagra, laser toner cartridges to die for, penis and breast enhancements, and future riches beyond the wildest dreams of even the WTC terrorists. Great.

So anyway, the below item from today's Apple newsletter would seem to be most useful. Anybody tried it? Does it actually work, MacOSXers?

"Yes, Mac OS X Mail can help you deliver a staggering blow to spammers. Simply pull down the Mail menu, choose Junk Mail, and select Automatic. The next time you receive email, Mail will move suspect email into a Junk folder.

With that done, youre ready to deliver a real knockout punch to spammers by taking advantage of yet another potent spam-fighting weapon:

1.   Click on the Junk folder.
2.   Type Command-a to select all of the email in the Junk folder.
3.   Choose Bounce to Sender from the Message menu.

Mail will return the selected messages to the senders marked User unknown, making them think your email address invalid, encouraging them to drop you from their lists, and, thus, eliminating spam at its source."

Well, does it?

Invisible Cities Installation

Adorned by the following beautiful Calvino quote ...

"At times all I need is a brief glimpse... a glint of light in the fog, the dialogue of two passersby meeting in the crowd, and I think that, setting out from there, I will put together, piece by piece, the perfect city, made of fragments mixed with the rest, of instants separated by intervals, of signals one sends out, not knowing who receives them."

... is Invisible Cities (wonder where they got that name?), a soundpiece and installation from the Fällt people. They say:

"Curated by Fällt designers Fehler, 'Invisible Cities' offers the opportunity to experience an intimate series of portraits of the world's cities painted with sound. Through the interface of a gallery wall, each city, represented by an audio work of five minutes duration, is accessible through headphones. Participants in the gallery can transcend distance - moving from Moscow to Montreal, from Berlin to Beijing - in the time it takes to plug a pair of headphones into an alternative location."

fallt.com: Invisible Cities

[via Peter Marsh - thanks!]

Pepys and Public and Private

"Blogs recognize what Pepys does: that the public and private are inextricably intermingled and that their interaction is worth exploring."

NY Times: The Granddaddy of Blabbermouths [registration req., free]