I have some tech blogging to do, as I received my EeePC 1000HE Netbook yesterday, but I wanted to get this down. Earlier, a friend asked on twitter why bad days propagate. I responded that it happens due to the Law of Attraction, and joked that it had become newagy pop. Within hours, I had five new followers, all of them spammers. It didn’t take long to figure out why.

The fact that the law of attraction attracted a bunch of spammers seems to have some universal irony, albeit only due to them automatically searching for a popular keyword, “Law of Attraction” in this case. It seems especially funny because I even referenced how the law of attraction had become a pop newage thing, despite its basic truth. It simply states that you attract what you focus on. A bunch of documentaries, self-help books, websites, and the like have sprung up around this simple concept, giving it somewhat of a bad reputation. Despite the fact that a bunch of marketers have latched onto it as the latest fad of 2006, its universal truth remains, though I don’t care for the greed or selfish aspects it has since inherited. A song plays in the background: “I trust I always will have love, I trust I always will receive love” which synchronistically and concurrently proves all my points.

Did those spammers prove the law of attraction, or the inevitability of parasite marketers? Whether or not one believes in it, or whatever one thinks of the various dreams and schemes which have recently sprung up around it, one objective truth does exist that we can all agree on, and one from which all the marketers of the world cannot escape: Spammer Saturday happens in three days! Use it as a tool for self-improvement. It won’t give you riches or that perfect partner, but it will help elevate the collective spirit of humanity in some small way. Just use the #SpammerSaturday tag on twitter, followed by all the spammers who have followed you this week. For a real bonus, tweet about the Law of Attraction. In a way, this entire post serving as a promotion for Spammer Saturday proves yet another point in somewhat of a self-referential way. I love metahumor!

Do things happen for a reason? From our point of view, they do. From the universe’s point of view, they don’t. Meditate on that, acai berry farmers! While on the subject, this reminds me of another thought I had during meditation: Good intention paves the way to Hell. Good attention paves the way to Heaven.

Hello everyone. I just came up with an idea, and I hope it goes viral. It has to do with Twitter, on which I have an account.

Some time ago, I started seeing #ff or #followfriday. Hash marks denote keywords for easy searching. A friend explained that it simply referred to when people would post other users for people to follow, prepended by an @ sign of course. For instance:

#followfriday @omeron23

would suggest that others follow me on Follow Friday. The idea seemed novel and cool for about a week, but I quickly started seeing friends complain. It makes it easy for spammers to harvest addresses, and many people notice an influx of spammers on Fridays now. This gave me an idea: Spammer Saturday!

In contrast to Follow Friday, Spammer Saturday will serve as the day to identify and delete all the annoying spammers that latch onto your account, largely on Follow Friday. Just do it on Saturday, and use the #spammersaturday hash tag. For example:

#spammersaturday @spammer1 @spammer2 @spammer3

You might also like to add the word unfollow to contrast with Follow Friday.

I hope this idea catches on. It seems simple enough, and makes an easy way to identify spammers for the good of all. Feel free to retweet. I DON’T LIKE SPAM!

We had a tight show. We first got into the news:

Islamic fighters vow to rescue hijacked Saudi tanker – CNN.com

We then showed Spam: the Documentary.

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