Oh, I found this kinda funny... In a... "My car is bigger than your car", or a "my dad could beat up your dad" sort of way. I was browsing some blogs and found a post that said they must be soooo popular because Akismet had blocked 100 spam in a month.

If spam is popularity (which is honestly the first time I've heard that), then I must be rivaling Google here, because I'm raking in 100 spams blocked in a single DAY. One time, I kid you not, I had 1000 spam comments blocked in a day. That hasn't happened since, but that's the day I decided to add the Akismet icon to my side bar. You can scroll down a little and see how many total spam comments have been blocked. At the time of this writing? 23,187 comments blocked.

Honestly, I would suggest you get Akismet if you have a blog. It's designed for Wordpress, but there's a few other plugins available for other journaling software. It's a community driven spam blocker that has literally never failed me. Basically, there's a massive central database of spam comments and it'll check each comment you get against the database. If you happen to get a spam that isn't part of the database, when you mark the comment as spam, it'll add the comment to a sort of queue where it'll wait to see how many other people have received the same comment. Then, it gets added to the database and you never have to worry about it again.

It does, however, required registration, but it's pretty painless. You just have to apply for a unique identifier code so they know you're someone new.

But I'm telling ya', Akismet paired with one-time moderated comments? ZERO spam shows up on your blog, and the known spams automatically get added to a little Akismet filter that will automatically delete them in 30 days, in case you want to be REALLY responsible and go through the list for legitimate comments that it might have tagged. But, honestly, it's worked flawlessly for me. I don't go through the list anymore. I probably wouldn't have a choice, either, since I get so much junk everyday.

http://au.gear.ign.com/articles/799/799262p1.html

Sony is at it again! Take a look at that article. You don't have to read it... Just take a peek at the three pictures. Do you notice anything... Familiar? About this controller set that is being heralded as "innovative"? That's right. It's a mouse. A mouse for the PS3. Innovative means something new that changes the way you do something. This isn't innovative, this is a lousy attempt to get PC players to feel the PS3 is best to play first person shooters on now. (Face it, nothing beats keyboard/mouse for FPS.)

Okay, so the mouse isn't innovative, clearly. But what's that other controller? The black nunchuk. Oops, sorry, it's not a nunchuk, is it. It's an overclocked Wii Nunchuk. Just... Look at it. Joystick, a bazillion buttons. Bet it's not motion sensitive, though. So is the nunchuk half the part that's innovative? I mean, really, if the mouse isn't innovative, but you call this set innovative, then it must be the nunchuk. Which, I might add, Nintendo designed something similar FIRST, and everyone's laughing at the controller set that will become old and boring in 6 months.

So, okay. Judging by Sony fanboy rants, the nunchuk isn't innovative, either, since they're laughing at Nintendo's nunchuk (THAT CAME FIRST). So what does that leave? Hmm...

That's right, folks. The mouse pad. The mouse pad is innovative. See that little arm rest in the first picture? The mouse pad clearly sports a convenient cradle for the nunchuk. I've never seen anything like it before in my life! It could very well change the face of console gaming as we know it. Because... Uhm... You could... Like... Put stuff on there... Within easy reach of your other hand?

Ah, who is anybody kidding? This is a rehash of existing controller sets that Sony copied. It's not innovative in the least bit. Is it useful? Sure! I mean, if I bought a PS3 (like when hell has snow), I'd get this. It WOULD make FPS games easier to play... Maybe. It would take a lot of time getting used to. But it could be useful! But innovative? Come on, Sony... Innovative in your own little world, maybe. But you just copied everyone else... Again.

So, I love werewolves. They're the coolest things on the planet... Too bad that nobody in the history of movie making has made them look like PROPER walking wolfies. They always look like some... Creepy, furless beast. Even the wargs in the LotR movies weren't the big fuzzy wolves described in the books. That's right. They're big fuzzy wolves. Remember in the Hobbit? When the wolves chased the dwarves up into the trees and Gandalf lit pinecones on fire, threw them down, and their fur caught fire and they howled? That's right. They're wolves. Not... those things in the movie. Harry Potter movie-werewolf? A big skinny rat that roared and scared everyone.

So... That being said. Anyone know of any good werewolf movies? Books, maybe? Something? Anything? Hopefully something that isn't terrible? Like the Underworld werewolves... Overgrown hairy humans with long noses? No... Just no. See, this is what a werewolf should look like. (DeviantArt link. Slight language warning, nothing too shocking, but don't read the comments. I give you no warning on that. You know how the internet can be.) And no, TW (or Ed or anyone else), the one on the leftis NOT how they're supposed to look.

I WANT WEREWOLF....... stuff. WEREWOLF ENTERTAINMENT. GOOD werewolf entertainment. Man, I almost want to get into the movie business JUST to make a GOOD werewolf movie. Except, even then, it'd probably be terrible, unless I wrote the script, directed the acting and cinematography, and led the special effects team.