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I know that most of you probably ignored my post about the E-mail roulette and did not subscribe. So I can tell you all: you missed lots of fun! There is a limerick-composing rouletteer now, and I got a custom-made limerick! How cool is that!

There was a Young Lady of Sweden,
Who went by the slow train to Weedon;
When they cried, ‘Weedon Station!’
She made no observation
And ended up back in Sweden

(limerick by Winston Whatmore)

(link)

I have been suscribed to e-mail roulette for a while. As you are probably wondering what kind of geeky pastime is this, I will attempt to explain.

According to the FAQ, “Email Roulette is the finest form of email entertainment to hit the net since spam. Whether you’re seeking new online friends or have just had a few too many beers, this is the place for you.”

The idea is simple: send an e-mail to a random receiver. Of course, to receive or send a roulette you must sign up first, and spam sending through the Roulette is not tolerated. You don’t have to send any roulettes if you don’t want to, and the traffic is not too high (I get about one e-mail every two weeks, on average).

For me the fun part is receiving ’surprise’ e-mails from complete strangers. The content of the e-mails ranges from political questions to simple greetings, depending on the user who sent the roulette. You have the real address of the sender, and can choose to reply or not.

Today I got a roulette with a request for a joke. As I could not remember any, I had to do a bit of research, and came up with this:

A: Knock, knock.
B: Who’s there?
A: Recursive.
B: Recursive who?
A: Knock, knock…

(from the blog InsultConsult)

Anyway, it seems that the Roulette population is slowly diminishing, which takes most of the fun out of the game, as the number of e-mails decreases. So, if you like surprises and e-mail games, join the e-mail roulette! It is free, fun, and easy as pie.

IHT, North Korea beats up on Bush:

In Monday’s tirade, Pyongyang’s diplomatic spokesman called Bush “an idiot, an ignorant, a tyrant and a man-killer.”

“Bush’s assumption of office turned a peaceful world into a pandemonium unprecedented in history, as it is plagued with a vicious circle of terrorism and war,” continued the statement. “The president’s aides and allies are a typical gang of political gangsters.”

The spokesman concluded darkly that the U.S. president was “a bad guy.”

R. Robot has a weblog. And he has written about me. An excerpt:

In the mind of Ana Ulin, it’s always Ann Coulter’s fault. Ana Ulin’s duplicity was execrable. It was malignant. It was Jazzercized. But I understate. One of the internecine Islamists, Ana Ulin mischaracterizes Joe Lieberman. “Maybe we could get Iraq straightened out first,” she said. No, no, it is unthinkable to these degenerate Islamists that American force is a force for good.

But maybe it is not accurate to refer to R. Robot as a “he”. R. Robot is a rhetoric simulator written in Perl and feeding the results into a Movable Type blog engine.

So anyone can go to R. Robot’s weblog and push the “Detect liberal media bias” button to automatically produce a new blog entry in real time (all entries have a consistent strong “anti-liberal” bias). You can also input a name, as I did with mine, to make it appear in the entry. There is a warning: “Warning: Entering your friend’s name may lead to unflattering Google results.” I should have know.