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Coke Features Islamic Star on Can

Coca-Cola featuring a Islamic ‘crescent moon and star’ for Ramadan 2008?
Ramadan will be celebrated from Sept 1 to Sept 30, 2008. It has been reported that “Brand Republic” is brains behind this idea.
The Coke company which has always celebrated the Christmas season with the secular ‘Santa Claus’ themes is now making waves by using [...]

Obama Vague Promises

Obamamania
There is an under current of discontent from liberals about their candidate Barrack Hussein Obama. Liberals feel that he is issuing vague campaign promises and saying anything to get elected.
Obama’s campaign staff is now realizing that they may have over did it with the promises as their Obamaniacs’s now have unrealistic expectations that their [...]

Obama Fail

Obama = Fail
Contrary to what Democrats believe. Obama is political light weight who will eventually make Dan Quayle look like Einstein.

Recent Robot Useragents and IP Addresses

Recent Robot Useragents and IP Addresses
List of recent spider visitors that have been logged.
Gigabot/3.0 (http://www.gigablast.com/spider.html) – 66.231.188.77
Baiduspider+(+http://www.baidu.com/search/spider_jp.html) – 119.63.193.55
Speedy Spider (http://www.entireweb.com/about/search_tech/speedy_spider/) – 88.131.106.16
Biz360 spider (blogsmanager@biz360.com; http://www.biz360.com) –
216.74.34.133
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) – 66.249.66.195
Feedfetcher-Google; (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html – 72.14.199.3
msnbot/1.1 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) – 65.55.210.33
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp) – 67.195.53.156
FeedBurner/1.0 (http://www.FeedBurner.com) – 66.150.96.121
WikioFeedBot 1.0 – 84.55.184.93
Bloglines/3.1 (http://www.bloglines.com; 209 subscribers) – 65.214.44.28
NewsGatorOnline/2.0 [...]

eWatch Bot

This eWatch bot has not requested robots.txt and it is masquerading as a human surfer.
Example visit:
199.230.29.117 – - [23/May/2008:03:32:46 -0400] “GET /blog/ HTTP/1.0″ 200 11225 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)”
This traces back to a PR Newswire service that searches the web for corporations.
IP Address: 199.230.29.117
Reverse IP: app6.ewatch.com
OrgName: [...]

internetserviceteam.com scrapper

Had a cluster of alerts today both from Modsecurity, the robot trap, and LFD caused by a bot from internetserviceteam.com.
This robot spoofs their useragent to make it appear that they are a human surfer using Internet Explorer 6.
A bad robot hit /trap/ 2008-05-11 (Sun)
address is 89.149.244.45, agent is Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT [...]

South Korea: 34% of Army Cadets Regard USA as Main Enemy

South Korea: 34% of Army Cadets Regard USA as Main Enemy
Perhaps now is a good time to remove the remaining 34,000 US troops defending South Korea. The United States has protected the south from the communist invasion allowing peaceful, powerful world economy to develop. The new generation of South Koreans have forgotten what the United [...]

Ed Schultz is a hypocrite or does not read newspapers?

Recently, the ill winds of political hypocrisy blew through the Obama supporter camp.
At Obama campaign event, Ed Schultz, syndicated radio “personality” and Obama supporter, referred to Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) as a “warmonger”. Mr. Schultz then compounded the remark with the following:
“He voted for this war. He’s a perpetrator of [...]

Search Publisher 3.0

Search Publisher 3.0
This bot was caught up in the robot trap. It did not request the robots.txt and followed a 1×1 pixel to the forbidden directory.
A bad robot hit /trap/ 2008-04-05
address is 147.202.6.110, agent is Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Search Publisher 3.0)
The 147.202.6.110 IP address resolves to gw2.cf.planetdiscover.com.
Who is Plantdiscover.com?
We are a leading provider of local search, [...]