Link roundup for 8/7/07

Annals of Technology: Damn Spam: "The losing war on junk e-mail" by Michael Specter in The New Yorker is a lengthy overview of the current state of spam and filtering written for a popular audience. Many well known anti-spam vendors are quoted.

New API: It Slices! It Dices! It Uploads Your Docs!: Google released a GData based API for Google Docs to supplement it's existing Google Spreadsheets API. The API can be used to import, retrieve or search documents programatically that are stored in the Google Service.

Top 20 Temporary and Disposable Email Services: a sizable collection of one off email address services that could be useful for anyone seeking a disposable address or list of providers for such address to incorporate or block into their own services.