Archive for May 17th, 2014

Over at Battleswarm…

Saturday, May 17th, 2014

…Lawrence has significant followups on a couple of things that I’ve covered previously, but the latest developments somehow got past me:

Name and shame, part 2.

Saturday, May 17th, 2014

Quirk Volkswagen Manchester
1100 So. Willow Street
Manchester, NH 03103

is a spamming business. Quirk Volkswagen Manchester hires people to post spam messages in blog comments. Here are some examples of spam messages for Quirk Volkswagen Manchester from just the past 24 hours:

Spam from Quirk Volkswagen Manchester.

More spam from Quirk Volkswagen Manchester.

Even more spam from Quirk Volkswagen Manchester.

If you live in the area of Manchester and are looking for a VW dealership, I encourage you to avoid Quirk Volkswagen Manchester. A business that spams is likely to be dishonest in other areas as well, and who wants to deal with a dishonest Volkswagen dealer?

Why not use the contact form on the Quirk Volkswagen Manchester website to ask them why they consider spamming blogs to be a good idea? Even better, they have a live chat system: perhaps one of their “live operators” could explain why Quirk Volkswagen Manchester is spamming blogs? (Please be polite to the “live operators”.)

If you own a blog and have been getting spam from Quirk Volkswagen Manchester, it might not hurt to report them to their domain registrar, Register.com. It is interesting that they have chosen to use the “Domain Discreet Privacy Service” to hide who actually owns the domain; in my personal opinion, no legitimate business should feel a need to hide that information, and the fact that Quirk Volkswagen Manchester does gives additional weight to my opinion that they are a dishonest and untrustworthy business.

Their website appears to have been designed (badly), and may possibly be hosted, by Dealer.com: why not drop Dealer.com a line and tell them that their client, Quirk Volkswagen Manchester, is making them look bad? As a matter of fact, it might not hurt to ask Dealer.com if they’re actually organizing the spamming for both Quirk Volkswagen Manchester and Paul Cerame Kia?

It also wouldn’t hurt to file a report with YouTube’s abuse department, since Quirk Volkswagen Manchester has a YouTube channel. I won’t link it here, but you should be able to find it pretty easily by searching YouTube.

Name and shame, part 1.

Saturday, May 17th, 2014

Paul Cerame Kia
11655 New Halls Ferry Rd.
Florissant, MO 63033

is a spamming business. Paul Cerame Kia hires people to post spam messages in blog comments. Here are some examples of spam messages for Paul Cerame Kia from just the past 24 hours:

Spam from Paul Cerame Kia.

More spam from Paul Cerame Kia

Even more spam from Paul Cerame Kia

If you live in the area of Florissant and are looking for a Kia dealership, I encourage you to avoid Paul Cerame Kia. A business that spams is likely to be dishonest in other areas as well, and who wants to deal with a dishonest Kia dealer?

Why not use the contact form on Paul Cerame Kia’s website to ask them why they consider spamming blogs to be a good idea? Even better, they have a live chat system: perhaps Melissa Roberson or one of their other employees could explain why Paul Cerame Kia is spamming blogs?

If you own a blog and have been getting spam from Paul Cerame Kia, it might not hurt to report them to their domain registrar, Network Solutions. Their website appears to have been designed, and may possibly be hosted, by Dealer.com: why not drop Dealer.com a line and tell them that their client, Paul Cerame Kia, is making them look bad?

Edited to add: it also wouldn’t hurt to file a report with YouTube’s abuse department, since Paul Cerame Kia has a YouTube channel. I won’t link it here, but you should be able to find it pretty easily by searching YouTube.

Obit watch: May 17, 2014.

Saturday, May 17th, 2014

Dr. Clyde Snow, legendary forensic anthropologist.

In Argentina in 1985, Dr. Snow and students he had trained excavated a mass grave where military death squads had buried some of the 13,000 to 30,000 civilians who vanished in a seven-year “dirty war” against dissidents. They found 500 skeletons, many with bullet holes in the skulls, fractured arms and fingers, and abundant signs of torture and murder.

In 1979, Dr. Snow helped identify many of the 33 boys and young men killed by Mr. Gacy, most of them buried in a crawl space under his suburban Chicago home. That year he also helped identify many of the 273 people killed when an American Airlines flight crashed and burned on takeoff from O’Hare Airport in Chicago, then the nation’s worst air disaster.

Witnesses from the Grave: The Stories Bones Tell (which is briefly mentioned in the obit) is the book that sparked my interest in forensic anthropology. It appears to be out-of-print, but readily available: I commend it to your attention.

Also among the dead: Watergate figure Jeb Magruder.