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Bitly is a cloud service, with an automated API that you can use software to automatically create shortened links to stuff. The rocket scientists who invented it apparently never heard of spam bots before, so now the entire service is predictably overrun with spammers.
I've had to go to online communities I haunt and have them add the links to their spam filters. They are almost never legitimate.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Rule 34.a -- if it exists, there is spam of it.
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Link shorteners like bit.ly are pure evil.
Given that you're going to click on a link, not type it in, they serve no useful purpose.
They only serve to disguise malware of all sorts.
I never follow shortened links.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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It's important to me to carve a poem into the hide of time each 13-lunation cycle ... perhaps, a homeopathic remedy for suicidal ideation.
Often the poem is a long-winded, excessively metaphysical, collage of recursive obscurities 
This year's screed emerged in haiku-form:
time was a metal,
then a slurry, then liquid:
now, it's laughing gas
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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BillWoodruff wrote: now, it's laughing gas
Enter Beavis and Butthead, stage left: "hee, hee, hee, he said gas."
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Thanks, 007, I'm so desperate I'll take that as a compliment 
Perhaps I can add to your enjoyment of B&B by sharing this information on "Bu's" ancestry and kinfolk: [^].
cheers, Bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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I don't actually enjoy B&B. It literally was the first thing that came to my immature and infantile mind.
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To flip them off, use ID one thousand perhaps? (6)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Monied ? don't know why
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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If it was, I wouldn't know why either ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Medius?
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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You are up tomorrow! 
To flip them off,
use USE
ID ID
one thousand M
perhaps? (anag)
Your middle finger is your MEDIUS:
╭∩╮(▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ ̿)ᕗ
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Thank you. Can I pass on setting tomorrow's though? I'm not sure I will be able to do a good job
One thousand is M, btw
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Fixed.
Are you sure you want to skip? I'll do it if you want, but ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yes, please.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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As in giving someone the finger ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Dave's not here man.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I suppose that's a bad trial of spam
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Anyone remember what caused him to flee? Was it when he got caught editing Wikipedia to 'support' his fibs, or was it the election loss from a safe seat?
Cheers,
Vikram.
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Hi! It's Dave - any messages?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Sorry I'm late!
Thanks for standing in for me!
So... any messages for me?
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For those that are confused, it's an annoying drinking game (as in, if you aren't drunk you wouldn't do it).
You pick some phone number and all night people call it asking for Dave. This winds up the poor sod on the other end horribly by about the twentieth call.
Then, late at night comes the final call "Hi! It's Dave - any messages for me?"
Followed by swearing, screaming, or general apoplexy.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I was thinking of the movie, "Up In Smoke." Chong calls up a house and says, "it's me, Dave." Cheech replies, "Dave's not here man," and it continues on from there.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I wonder how many here are old enough for that reference?
:raises hand:
Yep, I'm one of them.
:edit:
Based on the results of this weeks survey, most of us would probably get that reference.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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