Here’s a sampling of the harder questions from the official sample test.
You answered 85% of questions correctly.
The most amazing discussions I’ve ever had about what the Declaration of Independence and constitution really mean were with Egyptians in Cairo, who all but wept talking about a kind of freedom they understood better than most who are born into it ever will, and which they had no expectation of ever having for their countrymen.
The least we can do as Americans, besides vote, is to be able to pass the immigration tests ourselves.
I’ve been getting a ton of spam directed to “jeffrey phillips,” which I assume is a marker to designate who originally sent it or who responded to it or something.
But a glance at Google doesn’t suggest it’s showing up in mass quantities elsewhere. Are other people getting stuff for him as well, or is it just some wonderful algorithm spitting it out for me, based on my domain name or something?
Todd Behrendt, now the assistant managing editor of FOXSports.com, whom I knew back when he was a wet-behind-the-shaggy-hair punk at Dear Newspapers who was lucky to get to cover a high school sports game in between covering real estate articles/fluff pieces, is now the most powerful man in sports. Joe Gibbs washes his car each week (which is quite a commute, living on opposite coasts as they do) and the Baltimore Orioles cook and clean for the Behrendts.
And now, Todd has a blog. Even though it can’t possibly be as funny as me calling him up at the Potomac News and using a funny voice pretending to be outraged that he didn’t cover some obscure sporting event, he promises it will be both wild and wacky and that he’ll be posting Danica Patrick’s cell phone number.
Check it out.
Don’t do it!
(Did you yawn?)
Of course, the whole yawns-are-contagious thing may be hooey. Or it may not. Who knows?
(Source.)
There’s a new spambot circulating that hits blog sites via trackbacks instead of comments, thus evading most spam-fighting systems. I’ve been hit several hundred times in the past 24 hours myself.
How I fixed it:
- Long ago, I turned off allowing pings/trackbacks. In WordPress, you can find this under Options and then Discussions.
- That only helps with new posts. I can’t recall when I started with that, so going back and editing hundreds of previous posts to turn off pings all at once is a bit daunting for the middle of the work week. Instead, each time I shove the spam over to the moderation queue or just hit SPAM and kill it, I also edit the original post, deactivating pings/trackbacks, which slowly closes the security hole.
Jonah’s been getting hit with it, too. Evil bastards. (Apparently, the spam is coming from spyware that’s botting multiple infected users’ machines. Please use virus/spyware protection, folks!)
Good luck, fellow bloggers.
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