Sunday, September 04, 2005

An Administrative Note

It seems very likely that we have been hit by comment spam, so I turned on word verification* for comments. It would be nice if there was a way to turn it off for registered users and only make anonymous commenters jump through the hoops, but at the moment it looks like we all have to suffer.

*A process where you have to look at a picture and write down the depicted letters, which most emphatically do not form a word. Maybe it's a conspiracy, meant to increase the number of Verified Words™ in the world to unmanageable numbers, in order to drive spelling zealots and Scrabble players everywhere mad. It could happen.

2 comments:

Insignia said...

I think the words are actually in the native language of the aliens who are plotting to take over the Internet. Or possibly the names of their infiltration deities.

Svante Landgraf said...

To me, they look distinctly like the shards of an earlier universe; I saw them once, in Babylon in 1553, and than again almost two centuries later in Bologna. Now they are being written down all over the world, their spell is beginning to form, and soon we might be back in the world before the Deluge and the Playing of Games.