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Jay Allen, of MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse fame, generously recommends Brad Choate's Spam Lookup as a more comprehensive solution to webspam/commentspam/trackspam. The nightly build (which fixes a bug in beta 2) is here. So, in short, for spamkilling purposes on the new and improved MT3.16 version of the blog, I think I'd like to give [...]

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Even our dull corporate buildings look almost pretty this time of year. The crabapples and redbuds are in bloom all along the parkways, and the air smells sweet (even for this area, which often smells faintly of jet fuel owing to our location right under the approach/takeoff path for O’Hare.
The whole area is greening [...]

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There’s smoke in the air; it looks almost white-ish;
Papal expectations, everybody’s watching for you
The populi in St Peter’s Square, they all seem to know you
The cardinals act like you’re all infallible now
Bennie the Sixteenth, the new Pope in Rome
Everybody venerates you, ma illegitimi non carborundum
You look in the cameras; the choir begins to sing
Hopeful [...]

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