>>>June 06, 2002

Ear to the spam

Spamhead: We all get it. We all ignore it. Well, most of us. It’s spam, the unsolicited e-mails offering schemes to lose weight and get rich quick that are the bane of our inboxes. Rather than just trashing it, spamradio had a better idea. They turned the spam they receive into a streaming audio broadcast anyone on the Net can listen to. The geniuses at work run the spam through a text-to-speech processor and add soothing background music. Be convinced to pay for porn at www.spamradio.com.

Fine art: The Museum of Depressionist Art is one of those sites that make you question your own sanity—“What exactly am I looking at?” you’ll ask yourself. This is a collection of paintings retitled and modified to surreal effect. Take, for example, “Washington Crossing the Styx”—but don’t look at it too long. This site is part of the equally funny and frightening
dearauntnettie.com. Frighten yourself at www.dearauntnettie.com/museum/. :

— Michael Citrome

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