The New York Times: When E-Mail Points the Way Down the Rabbit Hole

This is why I love to read the Times: an article that contemplates the rising of artificial intelligence out of spam and spam filters - "If a deep-think computer consciousness like Hal from '2001' somehow evolved from the ashes of the spam wars, it might very well be obsessed by the coarse and grubby issues from which it arose: penis size, cheap pharmaceuticals, debt consolidation and online gambling." =)