Simon Willison’s Weblog

’Pump-and-Dump’ Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders. Many people I’ve talked to have noticed an up-surge in spam recently. This could be why. 7:20 pm

Inside World of Warcraft Gold Farm, Future of Work. Half a million (!) people make a living farming gold in World of Warcraft. 10:11 pm

python-dateutil. A bunch of useful datetime extensions, including recurrence rules and date parsing. 11:44 pm