Nine out of ten emails sent are now spam, according to a report released this week. How does this happen? Apparently, 80 percent of spam comes from around 200 illegal gangs. In this high-tech gang banging, spammers use trojan-horse type programs to hijack thousands of home computers at a time, stealing their computing power and bandwidth to use as makeshift spam supercomputers. Now that’s some spamming talent. You’d think AOL and Microsoft would just put an end to the whole thing by recruiting straight from the spam gangs with the lure of six figures and a dental plan.

More not-so-super spam news: Cell phone spam is on the rise in China, with some cell phone users receiving over 40 spam text messages per week. How do you know it’s spam and not just a text-messaged booty call from one of your many admirers? One big tip-off will be the misspelling of V14GRA…

Are you in need of something fun to do with your spam? Try recycling it at spamrecycling.com, where your spam will be converted into a lovely fractal image. Simply forward your spam to spam@spamrecycling.com and follow the easy instructions they send you. All this is free in exchange for their selling your email address to the spam mafia. (Just kidding about that last part.)