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Spam

Tech

The Tedium Is the Message

A history of spam on the internet.

Kevin Driscoll Los Angeles Review of Books Aug 2013 20min Permalink

The Markovian Parallax Denigrate: Unraveling the Internet’s Oldest and Weirdest mystery

How conspiracy theory links the internet’s first spam (a series of randomly generated words with the subject line Markovian Parallax Denigrate) with a woman who posed as a CIA agent and was convicted of receiving funds from Saddam Hussein’s government.

Kevin Morris Daily Dot Nov 2012 15min Permalink

Food

The Spam Factory's Dirty Secret

First Hormel gutted the union. Then it sped up the line. And when the pig-brain machine made workers sick, they got canned.

Ted Genoways Mother Jones Jun 2011 Permalink

Crime World

Russia's Spam King

The unsolved killing of Russia’s most notorious spammer.

Brett Forrest Wired Aug 2006 10min Permalink