Daniel Rubin wrote an excellent piece in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer about how today’s spammers are becoming increasingly poetic, as they seek to route around spam filters. Rubin noticed that I’d blogged about this before and interviewed me about the subject, which was fun:

To Brooklyn journalist and blogger Clive Thompson, the word salad echoes the literary technique that T.S. Eliot used in “The Waste Land” — “essentially an enormous pastiche of phrases, metaphors, lines from and allusions to other pieces of literature and mythology, including many directly quoted lines.”

Actually, I forgot to blog this earlier, but a few weeks ago the BBC ran a cool story on this subject and quoted directly from my posts.