Apathy Sketchpad

Do you Yahoo!? I do, but I’m going to stop soon. I get too much spam in my Yahoo! account. I’ve been getting it for years, and today I got an email filtered to my Bulk Mail folder. Just one. This would have been very helpful had it not been accompanied by an email in my main inbox to explain to me all about the Bulk Mail folder. I can only hope than any future emails moved automatically to this folder will not be sent with covering letters from Yahoo!. Also in this email it explained to me how to empty the Bulk Mail folder, and that this means “deleting the contents of” said folder.

I also saw a new type of banner advert today. It was for Blockbuster Video, and was one of the “click the slowly moving sprite to win” banners that normally do the same thing whether or not you hit it. The caption read, “Hit the movie reel and win a $25 gift card from Blockbuster!”, but there was no movie reel to be seen. There was the company logo and a moving bag of popcorn. Presumably someone here has made a mistake, or else when you click it it takes you to a page saying, “no, that was popcorn, now wasn’t it?”. I didn’t feel the need to find out.