Despite the low number of posts here recently, I still get large amounts of spam comments to clean up. It’s relatively easy to do, and it can occasionally be interesting to see what it is they’re trying to pimp.

One thing that they’ve started doing more and more is attempting to link to their poker/prescription drug/hot sex site using some other term that people are likely to be searching for, and one word I’ve noticed appearing quite a few times in the lists recently is ‘Hillary’ in what’s obviously an attempt to capitalise on the fact that lots of people are searching for information on Hillary Clinton, either for her Senate re-election bid this year, or her potential Presidential bid in two years time.

But, it strikes me that by 2008, we’ll see a lot of other names entering the spammers’ lists – McCain, Giuliani, Kerry et al – and, in the spirit of the silly season, it occurs to me that someone ought to keep track of which names are most popular and compare whether spam is more accurate at predicting election results – in terms of which candidate is more popular – than polling.

Yes, when this is the quality of my thought, you can see why there’s been such a long silence here.