I googled rickrolling, and I'm boggled. Your niece wasn't even *born* when Rick Astley was in the charts, was she? I thought he'd long been consigned to Stock Aitken & Waterman hell.
Now I have a "Never Gonna Give You Up" earworm that reminds me of the summer I spent in Italy (it was No.1 for *months*, and playing in every cafe and bar). It was 1987, and I was 19.
It's called Project Upstream, and it's basically evil. It hacks into people's AIM accounts, sends a message from them that is *apparently* from someone called [Something]Salmon (examples: TruncatedSalmon; HeadlessSalmon; LiterateSalmon). When the person messages back asking what's going on, the person who "sent" the message has no idea they've sent it, and they get all weirded out. And if anyone tries to say their own screenname, it comes through as the Salmon thing, and if anyone says the Salmon name, it apparently shuts down the connection.
http://project-upstream.awardspace.com/
Evil. So the nibling is utterly amused by it, of course, and is trying to hack the hacker.
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Date: 2008-06-26 10:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-26 01:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-26 02:28 pm (UTC)Heh, or send it to her under the guise of "blooper reel."
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Date: 2008-06-26 05:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-26 09:48 pm (UTC)Now I have a "Never Gonna Give You Up" earworm that reminds me of the summer I spent in Italy (it was No.1 for *months*, and playing in every cafe and bar). It was 1987, and I was 19.
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Date: 2008-06-26 09:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-27 02:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-27 03:06 am (UTC)http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/articles.php?boardId=565563&articleId=37677&func=6&channel=AIM+Message+Boards
It's called Project Upstream, and it's basically evil. It hacks into people's AIM accounts, sends a message from them that is *apparently* from someone called [Something]Salmon (examples: TruncatedSalmon; HeadlessSalmon; LiterateSalmon). When the person messages back asking what's going on, the person who "sent" the message has no idea they've sent it, and they get all weirded out. And if anyone tries to say their own screenname, it comes through as the Salmon thing, and if anyone says the Salmon name, it apparently shuts down the connection.
http://project-upstream.awardspace.com/
Evil. So the nibling is utterly amused by it, of course, and is trying to hack the hacker.
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Date: 2008-06-27 07:11 am (UTC)