After a conversation with lizze on Twitter about spam and then reading the related blog post, we came up with SDIAF (spammers, die in a fire). This inspired me to play with Gimp, learn to make flames, and create an SDIAF button. Yeah, it is kinda silly, but we all need an outlet. =)

Use it if you like, but please, don’t hotlink to the image, save it on your own disk space.

I like to take a gander at the comments Akismet tags as spam before deleting them every now and again. Today I came across this doozy. It was soooo long I broke it into two giant files rather than one.

 In other news from LinuxDevices.com:

A free GNOME-based Linux distribution for mobile devices such as smartphones and PDAs has achieved a major release. OpenedHand’s Poky Linux 3.0 (”Blinky”) is based on X11, GTK+, and the Matchbox window manager, and includes an impressive-looking new application framework and theme called “Sato 0.1.”

The new “Blinky” release of Poky is based on X11/GTK+/Matchbox, much like the Nokia-sponsored Maemo.org project. However, in place of the proprietary Hildon GUI layer, it includes a new “Sato 0.1″ component described by OpenedHand as, “a simple fast GTK+ based PDA/Smartfone fully featured theme and application framework.” The screenshots below show Sato 0.1 in action.

Visit the post to see the rest of the screenshots. They are very fancy…

From LinuxDevices.com on my two favorite topics of the moment (Linux and Google):

Google’s first mobile phone will run a Linux operating system on a Texas Instruments “Edge” chipset, and will likely ship to T-Mobile and Orange customers in the Spring of 2008, according to unconfirmed reports. “GPhone” call minutes and text messages reportedly will be funded by mobile advertising.

News of the so-called “GPhone” or “G-Phone” broke quietly about two weeks ago in the island nation of Singapore, where Jennifer Tan of Reuters subsidiary Anian Research filed a report on July 12.

Tan cited “industry sources,” “U.S. sources,” and “manufacturing and component supply chain sources” in backing her assertion that after year-long delays finding a manufacturer, Google contracted Taiwan-based smartphone maker High Tech Computer (HTC) to design its phone hardware. HTC is best-known for its Windows Mobile smartphones, however, and Tan offered no conjecture about who might supply the phone’s Linux-based operating system. 

Read the rest of the details at LinuxDevices.com

FOSSWire has created a slick linux cheatsheet downloadable as a PDF. Check it out and hang it on your wall.

Click here to get it or click here to read about it at FOSSwire.