On Thursday I installed Akismet, a comment-spam-blocking plugin for WordPress, and it seems to be doing a good job; it’s caught nearly 400 attempted pieces of spam in less than two days! Even more importantly, using it instead of my previous anti-spam plugin, lr2Spam, seems to eliminate the problem whereby some users of older browsers (WebTV and the AOL browser in particular) were unable to comment at all.

But sometimes, spam isn’t so bad. In going through the list of blocked comments (double-checking to make sure nothing legitimate was getting caught by mistake), I found three spam comments that are really quite funny, in a random, anarchic sort of way:

“Hebrew hashed whitely Mexicans blanking Morse Corvus affricates”

“NATO maniacs slayer commenced axolotl buffetings”

and of course

“Cheney?refers:disillusioning.stoutly,mutations thrones unprovability!Dartmouth”

Heh.