May 13 2009 Spam Emails: Now With More Illustration

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This is a picture from artist Elliot Burford's series of work entitled 'Spam', which features illustrations created using the titles of spam email, most of which are for wiener growing pills. I posted a bunch more of my favorites after the jump, but there are 24 in total (so far), so take a gander if you like them. I was particularly fond of this one, for obvious reasons -- I like the smell of gasoline. Kidding, BURN IT WITH FIRE!

Hit the jump for more.

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Oct 6 2008 USB Light Up 'You've Got Mail' Indicator

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This is a little $17 USB gadget that lights up whenever you receive new email. It can turn green, blue, or red to indicate which account the mail is from and looks like a little envelope. Neat. Oh, it's blinking! Oh boy, oh boy!

Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:04:33 +0000
From: "ives abdulkaf" mail@camelbak-deals.com
Subject: Upsize your hotdog into a french loaf
To: tips@geekologie.com

Top 10 sellers for organic pharmacology today


Hell yeah French loaf, I'm starving!

USB webmail notifier lights up your life when you've got mail [engadget]

Thanks to Julian, who receives his email the old fashioned way, by horse.

Jul 23 2008 'Spam King' Sentenced To Four Years In Prison, Hopefully A Really Rough One

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'Spam King' Robert Soloway is headed to a federal pound you in the ass (I hope) prison for 47 months. He recently pleaded guilty to fraud, spamming, tax evasion, general douchery, asshatness, and sucking at life. We should probably just give him the chair. I really hope a fellow inmate down a handful of those penis pills he was always emailing me about and spams his ass.

Hit the link for the full story.

Top Spammer Sentenced To Nearly Four Years [yahoonews]

Thanks Julian, now let's stone him.