Turns out it’s not only foot-fetishists with a thing for Marisol Nichols who swing past this site. I’ve been hit by wave after wave of increasingly sophisticated spam comments. It started off just being garbage link salad to what I assume are russian porn sites or similar, which are thankfully blocked by a handy little plug-in called Akismet. Can’t recommend it highly enough, the hard-working little bugger catches just about everything that hasn’t come over the transom via human hands.
Still, it’s interesting to look at the increasing verbosity of the spam, as it grows and learns, much like electronic sea monkeys. What started off as “Cheap Doxycycline!” and “Farmville cheats” has now grown into fake people who, while they may not quite pass the Turing Test, are definitely evidence that Skynet is here and is trying to make with the blog niceties.
Today’s top 3 philosophical spam moments:
1. “All men have an instinct for conflict. At least, all healthy men.”
2. “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
and today’s favourite #3. “The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth–that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.”
Word, Skynet. Word.
In other news, my Writers of the Future swag has arrived. At last my stonking huge trophy sits on the brag-shelf, and I’m looking for the perfect place to hang Seth J Rowanwood’s stunning picture of my story “The House of Nameless”. I am not surprised he took home the illustrator gong, it’s just gorgeous. Speaking of Seth, my talented polymath collaborator has a new story available in an e-anthology, which can be found here: http://www.sethjrowanwood.com/archives/601
Ah yes, was very good to get into this swag of goodies. The added bonus is that Toddler Fisch thoroughly enjoys the enormous box it all arrived in, and loves being ferried hither and yon in said box. Buggered if I know why we buy that kid toys 🙂
