If you’ve been trying to reach me via my hotmail account and a message got bounced back to you, it’s ’cause I seem to be getting mailbombed by a single spammer. I woke up this morning to roughly 1200 duplicate messages in my junk folder and a warning from hotmail that I had exceeded my account limit and any further mail would be returned to sender.

About an hour goes by, I fiddle around with my morning work, check my mail again, and what do I see? About sixty *more* spams, same as before. Today’s hobby is emptying my hotmail trash bin.

Ricardo Alberich and co-workers at the University of the Balearic Isles in Spain, are tracing the evolution of the Marvel Universe in detail. They hope to understand which non-random features of real social networks are a consequence of the way people interact, and which follow from more general principles about network growth.
Read the article.
Thanks to the folks at Pffft! for this one.