One of my favorite parts of having a blog is dealing with the comment spam. Robots search the Internet for blogs and then post comments to them with links to places where you can play online poker or make your penis larger. The sky is the limit! Sometimes the body of the comment just contains a URL; other times, it contains a fun message generated at random from a database of comments. I love looking at the different kinds of comments these robots leave behind. Here's an example from my good friend "partypoker":

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. by internet poker

Here's another comment from "texas hold'em poker":

Ours is a culture of premature ejaculation.... by poker tables

Sometimes, the comment spam gets philosophical. "casino" writes:

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. by casino games

Didn't think a robot could talk like Shakespeare? Think again. "vinnie" says:

No legacy is so rich as honesty. vinnie How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

How true, vinnie. How true. Do you know what else is true? I can save on shoes!

The above links don't work, of course, because I don't want to give these slimeballs too much credit. It pains me to think that this business model works because people actually click on those links! It's the same reason that email phishing works: because people are gullible enough to fall for it.

Thankfully, for comment spam, I use MT-Blacklist, which blocks or moderates comment spam. It's a terrific plug-in for Movable Type and it does a superior job of preventing robots from posting links to their dopey products.