HOWTO: Manufacture blow in the middle of the jungle

First, buy a heavy pair of rubber boots and a weed whacker. (--via: BoingBoing. It's worth scrolling down and clicking through to the video of the next step, which involves acetone, HCl, and a microwave oven, and results in recognizably snortable coke.)

I'm impressed by their ingenuity and their ballsy attitude toward hazmats and psychotic guerrillas. But damn, that looks like a pretty mean life. Don't snort flake, kids.

The punchline

So I recently dropped a mild, albeit Satan-centric, kvetch about my increasing spam levels?

Gmail deletes spam after 30 days, so the unread count of one's spam folder is more akin to a speedometer than a grand total. I mentioned that the "speed" used to be hovering around 666? That was in August-and-earlier of this year. Three months later, it's more than doubled.

Turns out lots of people have the same story. Here's why. (via Daring Fireball's linklist.)