2000 Called, It Wants Its “Your Site Doesn’t Work In Internet Explorer” Spam Back

After weeks if not months of things being fairly quiet on the spam front, it has recently exploded into activity again, with three pages of miles-long Walls! Of! Text! in Russian, meaningless “Oh yes I totally agree with your premise but not your conclusions” and “I’ve been surfing the net for hours and your site finally solved my problem” word-vomit on posts that contain neither premises nor conclusions nor solutions. And there’s this little chestnut; it reminds me of the halcyon days of yore when you had to include special code to make your website render in IE, the bastard red-haired stepchild of browsers that, like the members of Fleetwood Mac, insisted on going its own way:

Yes, Arderbor Elnot, I bet it does have some overlapping in Internet Explorer, the final version of which was taken out back and shot in 2022. So yeah I will definitely hop into my time machine and go back 20 years to fix that compatibility issue; or maybe I’ll go even farther back and address the problem at its root:

BRB, time traveling to 1995 to prevent Internet Explorer from ever being created.

It’s 1995 and I don’t remember what the occasion was, but apparently it called for flowers.

It’s 1994 and I shall call this body of water “Fourth Lake”.

It’s 2000 and apparently there’s something fascinating offscreen.

It’s 1994 and although the world is apparently disintegrating, some of us are too engrossed in our own feet to notice.

September is National Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month

Hey, look, it’s September, and that means, once again, that it’s Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month!

In much the same way that Thanksgiving and Christmas have become occasions for annual reposts over at the animals’ blog, it seems that one post in September is going to be dedicated to revisiting The Event. And given that the main point about Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month is to help spread the word about what a person might experience when one ruptures, here is the first of the Event posts in its entirety. Read on for information about what to look for and what to do (and, uh, what not to do) should aneurysm troubles come your way!1

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It’s 1994 and you can just FEEL the ticks crawling up your legs, can’t you?

It’s 1990 and life’s a beach!

It’s 1995 and somebody has spotted paparazzi across the river.

It’s 1999 and how’d that tree get over there?