Remember the fictional advertising firm "Trans" from Pattern Recognition? Well there's a company that does this for real, only they've found they don't even have to pay people to do it. - NY Times story (I saw that at William Gibson's blog.) And no - I have no idea why the full text of PR is posted there - I just found it while Googling to verify Trans was the company name.

Good GOD that was a rough landing! But the damn thing is done (well to a first draft anyway). I'm off to the "Thank God It's Over" party on Wednesday! It was a hell of a ride, and all but the last couple of days were a lot of fun. I'd do it again, but not right away. We'll see how I feel next November :-)

I've got a theory as to why some of the older links are acquiring spammers, but I'm not going to share on this forum :-) Today there was another spam on the "Great Electronica" post so I closed comments on it. Seems unlikely that somebody is going to comment on it at this time. This will be my new policy - if a topic starts getting spam I'll close comments on it. If we start having spam on new threads where active conversations are afooot . . . well I'll worry abou that when it happens. So if you see something you'd like to comment on and comments are closed I'd encourage you to send me a note - I can always reopen comments. I've only ever chosen to close comments on one post - so any closed comments are likely an anti-spam measure as opposed to some attempt to shut down dialog. I believe I can get a plug-in that automatically closes comments on older posts. Ultimately I'll probably get that going on, but that's probably post MT upgrade.