Topics for Humans

By now, most of us are familiar with the sometimes strange, often nonsensical phrases that appear in our inboxes everyday, courtesy of the worldwide epidemic known as junk email. Most people, through the use of advanced spam filters provided by their internet service provider (and sometimes through additional software installed on their computers), work hard to keep the number of these emails they receive to as few as possible.

While I take this approach with my work email, I do keep an email address that I have set with, well, basically no spam filters at all. Since I don’t use the address for any personal or professional email, I don’t have to worry about missing anything important, and I just sift through the garbage occasionally, looking for anything that amuses me (the “From” names on emails frequently qualify — I have to say I’d really like to meet someone named “Bellinghausen Sonsteng”).

So there I was one night, clearing out the junk (the gems are few and far between), when I saw that I’d received an email with the subject line “Topics for Humans.” I have no idea at all what the message was about, but it was nothing out of the ordinary (Casino, Viagra, Lotto — one of the usual). What I do know, is that I’d had several pints of beer, and, as required by all web professionals, if you’re drunk and a word or phrase strikes your fancy, you immediately register it as a domain name, with no consideration as to what the actual content of the site might be.

And so a few months ago, topicsforhumans.com was registered. What’s going to live here? In the long run, hopefully a great diversity of things: flash games, short films, articles, photo galleries. How often will things be added? I have no idea. With a full-time job it’s hard to say, so I won’t promise anything anytime soon. For now, we hope you enjoy the very first topic for humans: Sarah Palin Spin Command.