My father used to sell machines that helped farmers cut chaff to feed buffaloes. As a kid, I watched very closely how these machines worked. It was like poetry to me. A man would put chaff into the mouth of the machine, and another person would rotate the wheel with blades attach

Last week, Farcaster was dominated by discussions about spam. Dan wrote a post The spam filtering dilemma. I took this opportunity to dive into history of spam. It's always interesting to me to explore the origins of words, and this four-letter word indeed has a fascinating story