"By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering."
--Roger Ascham

10.24.2003

"Ultimately, we are trying to avoid the day when the consuming public asks, "Why would Hormel Foods name its product after junk e-mail?""

Have you ever wondered (a) why junk email is called spam or (b) what SPAM producers think of their trademark name being applied to junk email? Wonder no more... The internet and SPAM. (BTW the answer to the first puzzle is interesting and involves Monty Python, so do go read the page).

(link courtesy of http://www.jeff.sorrentino.name/.)

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