Modern Humorist, a very funny site, ran a feature called Holy Tango of Poetry subtitled “If Poets Wrote Poems Whose Titles Were Anagrams of Their Names”.

One of the poets featured is William Carlos Williams, a founder of the Imagist movement, who is best known (by far) for his poem “The Red Wheelbarrow”.  If you have anything even remotely resembling a poetry anthology this is sure to be included because

1.  It is very good

2.  It is historically important

3.  It only takes up about three column inches

It is also notable because

4.  It leads a large number of college freshmen (who do not know the historical context) to decide that the chickens mentioned in the poem could successfully write modern poetry

Here is the poem (I’m sure a number of readers would be able to recite this by heart):

The Red Wheelbarrow

chickens.

Here is Modern Humorist’s Holy Tango poem for William Carlos Williams:

I Will Alarm Islamic Owls

and so dedicated to Allah

New Virus: Badtrans.B

This warning applies if you use Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express.

There is a new Windows virus, called Badtrans.B, spreading rapidly through email (I have been hit three times in the past 24 hours.)  The email subject of the infected message will be simply “Re:”.  The email body will be blank but the message will contain an attachment with a double extension: filenames will resemble Pics.zip.pif and Humor.mp3.scr.  When the message is opened, Outlook will launch the Internet Explorer (IE) parser to render the message.  IE versions 5.01 and 5.5 (but not 5.01SP2) contain an exploitable MIME bug allowing arbitrary code to be executed without prompting the user; this is the route of infection.

The virus has two main effects.  First, it will email infected messages, using its own MAPI code, to email addresses found in cached web pages.  Second (and more seriously) it will install a Trojan horse keystroke logger; the logger will be in effect when the title of the foreground window begins with ‘LOG’, ‘PAS’, ‘REM’, ‘CON’, ‘TER’, or ‘NET’ (for ‘logon’, ‘password’, ‘remote’, ‘connection’, ‘terminal’, ‘network’, etc.) and the keystroke log will be mailed to one of the creator’s (or creators’) email addresses.  The keystroke logging code is contained in %System%\Kdll.dll.

• More info on Badtrans.B from Symantec
• More info on the IE MIME exploit

For fans of Google Holiday Logos, the creative variations upon the logo of the Google search engine to celebrate particular events, note that Google maintains an archive page of all previously used holiday logos.

The Guerilla News Network has a very well produced < 5 minute video on its site called “Countdown”.  Check it out.