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Over to Jeff Freeman today, with an excellent – dare I say, magisterial – article on the blogspam and webspam problem. Complete with, at the end, a surprise villain! Well, it really shouldn’t be a surprise, I suppose.

Ordinarily I wouldn’t comment on something like the VT shootings, because (a) it doesn’t involve gaming, which is the usual subtext of this blog, and (b) it’s such a horrible tragedy that anything I would have to say about it would be obscenely, inappropriately, not nearly important

Getting hit by a spambot that’s getting past most of the site filters. Again. My Akismet filter (the spam filter built into wordpress) catches ~ 3000 spam comments a day. It misses about 50-100 a day. So, in other words, spambots are leaving a good 25 to 30 times as

Proving that the MMO industry is far, far superior to aged shock jocks, Acclaim’s new DANCE! Online dancing-required microtransaction-driven MMO has decreed that being a black person on the dance floor is so totally awesome, you must earn the privilege. Or, as one somewhat surprised user asks, I GOTTA

Specifically on the Escapist news feed: Everything is for Sale: SOE hires IGE exec

Someone sent me an email just now asking to place an ad here. I’m not sure why. Possibly the web bots are starting to consume each other. In fire.

“I Put On My Robe And Wizard’s Hat!” Considering that I haven’t had the time to make any updates for a couple of weeks, it’s a good thing that one of my last entries is still attracting a bit of discussion. So, let’s look at some