ST2007: The awakening of SixApart

Well, look who decided to join the party.

I think it's taken SixApart some time to get its act together, but it's saying things (and not to Cnet this time), so it's progress. I think just this post will go a long way to smoothing the road after this little kerfluffle.

But hey, there's always next time to look forward to.

Awash in corduroy

The Future Farmers of America from about the state have been congregating on campus for the last two days. It's tremendous. Sometimes in retrospect I feel a little embarrassed about my high school days and my awkwardness, but moments like this I realize that, oh God, it could've been so so so much worse.

But this...is an interesting theory as to the genesis of ST2007 -- via Xeni on BoingBoing:

I’ve been watching your series on the LiveJournal purges with interest. It turns out that the registrant for the domain WarriorsforInnocence.org matches those for the old front company Coastal Management, which listed a bunch of fraudulent positions on job-hunting sites like CareerBuilder back in ’05—presumably for datamining purposes. Both WfI and Coastal list their address as

15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, AZ 85260

…and their phone/fax as 480-624-2599

Here’s the info on WfI.org, and for Coastal Management (need to scroll down just a bit).

With all the complaints about WfI.org’s spyware, I wonder if they cooked up the LJ pedophilia scandal in order to get hits on their website from older and badly secured browsers in hopes of collecting data from interested parties. Perhaps some of your readers would be in a position to find out more about this connection?

Edit: Dammit, I was so hoping for this to take an intriguing turn: no such luck. Hey, the reason that WfI.org and Coastal Management both have the same registration info is that both domains were registered using GoDaddy's "private" domain feature. All such domains are really registered to Domains by Proxy, Inc.; they "map" to the actual registrant only within GoDaddy's internal database...