Daily Archive for July 26th, 2006

Spam as art

Alex Dragulescu is producing computer generated images out of spam messages. He’s written algorithms that produce plant/flower-like images based on the sender, send time and keywords in the message.

He’s got more sample images up on his Spam Plants project website.

-TPP

Today’s best bad idea pt II

Not content on charging gamers $60 every 12 months for a roster update, EA Sports and ESPN are putting up a preview video of their upcoming Madden 07 video game on pay-per-view TV for $20 per pop.

That’s, like, so rad kewl.

If anyone who’s not stoned or underage or both is willing to pay for watching a 60-minute advertisement, I’d be very surprised. But you can’t fault EA for trying. After all Greed Is Good ™.

-TPP