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sporadic web manipulationApril 28, 2004
Hot Abercrombie Yawn.
Daniel Zeigenbein last updated his website on January 14th, 2004. You may think he had abandoned it, but it is more likely that he has little time to maintain it anymore with all the work he is doing as the Hot Abercrombie Chick.
About 2 weeks after his last update, the HAC was thrust into the blogosphere. Since then, it has been a relentless onslaught of drudging articles about god, philosophy, evil, and ontology. Concurrently, the HAC was trolling every weblog that had anything, or even nothing, to do with the content on the HAC website and posting comments. Copious comments. Off-topic comments.
Traceable comments.
Since my last post about the HAC's use of an anonymous proxy server, Cameron Marlow and I have procured the IP source addresses from the proprieters of certain A-List weblogs for comments made by the HAC.
These comments were made during the period known as "before all rational webloggers determined the HAC was a hoax." It was therefore also known as the "hoaxster's careless phase."
The comments were made on the following dates:
February 28th - IP: 68.90.64.194
February 28th - IP: 68.90.64.194 (via a different weblog)
February 21st - IP: 65.69.87.117
Some even more valuable IP addresses were then acquired when Cameron remembered that when someone adds their site to Blogdex, the date and originating IP address are captured.
Here they are, along with the date added and the weblog that was being added:
| Date: | Site: | IP: |
| 2004-02-11 | amandadoerty.blogspot.com | 68.91.65.131 |
| 2004-04-02 | hgblog01.blogspot.com | 65.69.86.105 |
| 2004-04-07 | hgblog04.blogspot.com | 128.252.173.54 |
| 2004-04-14 | amandadoerty.blogspot.com/#01 | 68.89.157.59 |
Yes, those suspicious hblog[01-06].blogspot.com sites were all added.
Every single IP resolves to St. Louis, Missouri. Who is in St. Louis, Missouri? Daniel Zeigenbein. In fact, the one IP address that doesn't simply resolve to St. Louis terminates at Washington University, where Dan transferred to after Vassar.
It all goes back to the comment posted to overstated by Al that "[y]ou can be anonymous or you can have credibility, you don't get both."
I will leave it to everyone else to find out who the girl in the pictures actually is, or the motivation for undertaking such a charade.
And I will leave it to those who so arduously defended her to explain themselves.
Special thanks to Visual Tracroute.
Posted by justin at 7:59 AM | Comments (4)
April 24, 2004
Abercrombie Uber Alles
Super Woo Yay. I got a comment from the HAC. Yes. that's right: The Hot Abercrombie Chick. One really super thing about Movable Type is that when you get comments, it emails you the IP address of the person who posted.
So, let's do a little traceroute:
traceroute to 212.211.136.33 (212.211.136.33), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 9.039 ms 44.292 ms 6.984 ms 2 10.35.96.1 (10.35.96.1) 9.852 ms 21.196 ms 21.911 ms 3 pos1-1-nycmnyd-rtr1.nyc.rr.com (24.29.100.145) 19.118 ms 31.007 ms 13.438 ms 4 pos5-3-nycmnya-rtr2.nyc.rr.com (24.29.97.38) 28.791 ms 18.294 ms 12.754 ms 5 pop2-nye-p13-3.atdn.net (66.185.141.37) 30.343 ms 19.301 ms 10.089 ms 6 bb2-nye-p1-0.atdn.net (66.185.151.66) 10.262 ms 10.237 ms 11.858 ms 7 pop1-nye-p1-0.atdn.net (66.185.151.51) 46.638 ms 8.797 ms 45.766 ms 8 dtag.atdn.net (66.185.137.206) 29.857 ms 44.3 ms 34.713 ms 9 f-eb1.f.de.net.dtag.de (62.154.17.138) 105.47 ms 115.323 ms 110.381 ms 10 pos0-0-0.ffmxs01.rz-mu.ffm.spxs.net (212.211.200.9) 101.407 ms 116.369 ms 110.333 ms 11 pos0-0-0.ffmxs02.rz-gl.ffm.spxs.net (212.211.200.17) 112.969 ms 108.139 ms 161.948 ms 12 pos0-0-0.ffmxs04.decix.ffm.spxs.net (212.211.200.5) 143.67 ms 121.787 ms 103.976 ms 13 pos1-0-0.ffmxs05.ix.ffm.spxs.net (212.211.254.58) 106.207 ms 121.1 ms 114.437 ms 14 212.211.136.33 (212.211.136.33) 145.856 ms 128.488 ms *
That is a total of 14 (fourteen) hops. I am in New York right now. 7 (seven) of those fourteen hops are just for getting out of the NYC. That leaves 7 more hops. Suddenly, we are in Germany.
212.211.136.33 yields http://anonymouse.ws. And who might they be? Well, they are a self-publicized ANONYMOUS PROXY SERVER. And what do those do?
Why, they protect those who do not want to disclose their location to people who are privy to their IP address.
In other words, even though we ALL KNOW that the HAC is (from her own statements) in New York State, she needs to keep this a secret.
My guess is that she doesn't want me to see the traceroute hit "3647.anchorage.ak.rr.com" or something of the like.
So, we already know that her first name is not Amanda, and probably not Ashley either. She "came clean" in her hoax post about her last name not being genuine, but failed to mention that her first name was fake. She does not want us to know where she is, even though it is obvious from the information supplied that she should be at Vassar. She does not want us to know that she is not in New York State, which is why she is using the proxy server.
Now, I am sure more of her "fans" will jump to her defense saying "well maybe she just doesn't want to be stalked. And she has really interesting things to say." You people need to be reminded that this is a self-professed college freshman girl, 19 years old, who just wants to talk about, ya know, philosophy.
Yet "she" is a totally shrewd web user beyond the capacity of 90% of folk on the interweb.
Impossible, no? Likely, definitely not. Not only does the scenario fail the preponderance of the evidence standard, it does not surpass a reasonable doubt.
Reasonable, people. Not an irrational doubt.
Posted by justin at 4:10 AM
April 21, 2004
Hot Abercrombie Chick Retracts!
So, it appears that our little darling finally declared philosophy as her major. How cute. Oh yeah, and she said she wasn't a hoax. However, she did admit that her last name was a pseudonym, so as to, you know, avoid stalkers.
Apparently she wanted to avoid something else: accountability. One key post was removed at the same time as the update, possibly before. That was the post regarding the "request for a threesome" email. She also removed the photos from yafro, including the non-photoshopped version that she carelessly left behind.
Luckily, I took screencaps. Click the above thumbnail for the deleted post section (25K), or the pic below for her yafro page (68K). And she said she was vicious.
#### UPDATE ####
So, the yafro pics are back. How, you ask? Well, you can make them viewable by "Anyone", "My Friends", or "Just Me". So she put them back. But she hasn't put back the post that called the pictures, yet.
Yafro UI screenshot:
Posted by justin at 9:32 PM | Comments (6)
Amanda's New Movable Type Blog
Well, it looks like "Amanda Doerty" the allegedly "hot", allegedly "Abercrombie", allegedly "chick", has moved her site to Movable Type.
It is already up, at http://amandadoerty.com/.
The template is about as bland as her philosphical musings.
The curious thing is that her new blog is on an existing MT installation. The only posting, a test, has an Entry ID of 1326. Click on the comments link, and sure enough:
http://sayanythingblog.com/MT/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1326
It's the Say Anything Blog!
Hrm, lets look at some whois information:
domain: amandadoerty.com created: 18-Apr-2004 last-changed: 18-Apr-2004 registration-expiration: 18-Apr-2005 registrant-firstname: Robbie registrant-lastname: Port registrant-street1: 621 9th AVE NE registrant-pcode: 58703 registrant-state: ND registrant-city: Minot registrant-ccode: US registrant-phone: +1.7017211860 registrant-email: robbieport@rollieportinv.net
Why, it's Robbie Port, the Say Anything guy. Perhaps it should be renamed "Do Anything...to get laid by the Hot Abercrombie Chick".
Posted by justin at 4:26 PM | Comments (3)
Hot Abercrombie Chick: Who are these people?
While doing some more snooping on the Hot Abercrombie Chick mystery, I noticed that all her photos come from a free moblog hosting service. All of her old photos (the 4 you see all the time) as well as her banners are there. In addition, a CLEAN VERSION of the "threesome couple" is there.
What I want to know is, were the pics attached, or not? The email which she reprinted would indicate they were not:
If you're interested please let us know, we have some pics if you want to see them.
So, either Amanda was interested, or she manufactured the whole thing.
Posted by justin at 9:24 AM
Irrefutable proof!
Many have speculated about the veracity of Amanda Doerty's existence (the "Hot Abercrombie Chick"). I never believed it was real for a second, and I'm sure most rational and intelligent folks didn't either. However, two days ago, the wheels started falling off the the whole scam.
The problem is finding hard evidence of the hoax. So i did a little digging, back to Mandy's original site on Tripod, and in her MSN profile. What I found was quite shocking: an earlier low res photo of Mandy sitting in her "dorm room". If you examine the picture carefully, I think you will find something quite telling:
Posted by justin at 7:28 AM | Comments (2)
April 18, 2004
We Like Bukkake
Not only is this funny the first time you watch it, but it is funny the 1,637th time you watch it.
Posted by justin at 11:10 PM
April 16, 2004
Quannum in Beantown
The best hip hop show I have ever seen was the Solesides reunion show at Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco. It still remains so, but the new second-place slot is occupied by more or less the same crew.
Last night I saw Quannum at Avalon, and they straight ripped shit up. It was well worth the $25 ticket price, but the Vodka and Red Bulls weren't necessarily worth the $10 apiece.
I tried to take some stills with my camera, which didn't work out well until I used the video mode. The result was actually pretty tight, and I even like the way the audio drops out on the bass hits. It is almost as if my camera had been hit with the EMP from a nuclear detonation. Translation: Quannum dropped a mutha fuckin BOMB.
Here are some clips:
Posted by justin at 9:48 AM | Comments (1)
April 12, 2004
Let's Do the Time Cube
As if daylight savings time and traveling to/from London and to Boston aren't enough, it appears that there is not really a 24 hour day on Earth after all. Ask Gene Ray, who is endlessly trying to convince the world that we have 4 days in one day all occuring at the same time with four corners and a one corner face. Or, something like that. His lengthy diatribe can be found at timecube.com, and even more incomprehensible rantings are at abovegod.com.
If that isn't enough, you may engage Mr. Ray directly: his IM handle is cubicism. No matter how much you argue with him, he will not tire. After 3 hours of chat, I am a true believer, regardless of whether I understand a damn thing he said.
Also, for a critique of Time Cubology, as well as some truly choice hip-hop lyrics on the subject, please take a look at this site.
Posted by justin at 4:11 PM | Comments (2)
April 5, 2004
Deus Grammaticus
You are a GRAMMAR GOD!
If your mission in life is not already to
preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!
How grammatically sound are you?
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See, if i actually think about it, all that learnin' comes back. Spiffy neat-o! And, incidentally, my mission in life is to preserve the English language, I just don't necessarily do it in this forum. Occasionally, I attempt it at The Blogbook, to limited effect.