Posted by Virus Bulletin on Oct 29, 2004
British man sets up his own Museum of Spam.
Just in case you hadn't already seen enough spam in your inbox, or in case your spam filter is so efficient that you find yourself missing the stuff, a British man has set up his own Museum of Spam. Stephen Newton considers spam to be 'as much a part of contemporary culture as just about anything you care to name', and feels that it is worthy of preservation for posterity. None of the content of the museum is solicited - all the spam messages on display have been collected purely as a result of posting the email address [email protected] on various websites.
Should you feel the need for a spam fix, you can check out the daily spam exhibits, along with six months of archived spam messages, at http://www.spammuseum.blogspot.com/.
If you prefer something a little more cerebral, you could pop out to your local bookstore to buy a copy of I Am Spam, a poetry collection inspired by spam. Each of the poems, written by Chicago poet Larry O. Dean, uses the subject line of a spam message as its title - these include 'Stop paying too much', 'Be your own boss' and 'Emilee is that you?'. Dean says he came up with the idea after being inundated by spam and finding many of the subject lines amusing, provocative or odd-sounding. The book already has a fan base - Dean claims, 'People tell me they are not so angry over their spam now and are beginning to see its more ludicrous and light-hearted potential.' I Am Spam is published by Fractal Edge Press.
Posted on 29 October 2004 by Virus Bulletin
