I saw this funny little ego-exercise on Caterina Fake’s blog, and so I tried it out. While KOLAAP comes in at a predictable $0.00, Sea Slugs! tricked the script into thinking it was worth $40,082.34. I chuckle appreciatively on the inside.
On a completely unrelated note, this Ice Dozer is hilarious.
Elsewhere Online | Kabitzin 10/28/2005 | 
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Matt Mullenweg, “Photo Matt”, recently unveiled a new tool for fighting spam: Akismet. What makes this significant is that Akismet was developed by the same team that brought us Wordpress, and thus it is a creation of a group of smart people instead of just one lone smartie. Akismet is free for personal use, and differs from other spam-fighting plugins in that it is a web service, and so all the analysis is handled somewhere else. Here’s the gist of it, from this interview:
Nick: Great. Can you summarize, in one line, how it kills comment spam? Nevermind, it’s here on your FAQ: “When a new comment, trackback, or pingback comes to your blog it is submitted to the Akismet web service which runs hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down.”
Matt: Spam is much easier to deal with in aggregate at scale than on the individual blog level.
According to Akismet’s stats, it seems that just under 80% of all comments it’s analyzed are spam; so sad! Here’s a review of Akismet, with some nice write-up about potential concerns. I’ll be checking this out to see how it goes. While Spam Karma 2 has run like a dream, Akismet sounds extremely promising for bloggers who want a simple solution to spam and don’t really want to see what’s under the hood.
Nooooooooes, Guild Wars cosplay! At least the fanart is pretty good.
Cool that they added the ability to toggle capes and helms.
I was browsing Popgadget, and saw these sweet sushi/dim-sum USB memory drives. Not a huge fan of the severed thumb one, though.
Elsewhere Online | Kabitzin 10/27/2005 | Comments (4)
