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[serene]

My niece is trying to rickroll the Salmon Master.

Yeah. Don't ask.

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[ljgeoff.livejournal.com]

Nope, sorry, had to: What does "rickroll" mean?

[kshandra]

Destroying the memory of my teenage years, one video at a time....

[sogwife.livejournal.com]

Give her this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KANI2dpXLw.

Heh, or send it to her under the guise of "blooper reel."

[fightingtiger.livejournal.com]

It's been weird morning, and I really appreciated this. Kinda smoothed things out for me. :)

[(Anonymous)]

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.

redandfiery

[redandfiery.livejournal.com]

D'oh! That was me.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

(Who's the Salmon Master?)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Apparently, the person behind this weird "project":

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.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

i like her already :D