A somewhat dubious study claims sales of portable digital music players will double in the coming year. That sound you heard was the collective sigh of the music industry, upon realizing they are still too far behind the curve on music that isn’t pressed.

I’ve turned on the requirement for name and email address in order to post a comment. I’m using the email address list as a whitelist for comments moderation. If you post for the first time with a given email address, the comment may not appear immediately. I set a requirement to moderate comments by new posters. However, any comment from a poster I have already moderated to “approved” will make it past the moderation check.

Email addresses are never posted on the site, nor do I ever intend to use them an any spammy fashion. In case you didn’t know, one of my jobs at work is to bust spammers, so I’m not going to do anything fishy. If you are ultra protective of your address, I’d recommend a disposable system like sneakemail or spamgourmet. Lastly, you can lie, I won’t care. Just remember to use an address you don’t think will ever be used, and remember the address you provided.

Perhaps a sign of gaining acceptance of a blog app is when it starts getting comment spam. I got my first today. Yippie? Fortunately, wordpress has a feature to throw a comment to moderation if it contains more than x number of links.

Now if the bozos give me any more trouble, I’m whitelisting via email address.

By way of photomatt I came across the blog of Good Eats guru Alton Brown. This might prove interesting.

I was scrolling through the yahoo news headline feeds today and ran across the headline “Shyamalan’s ‘Secret’ Hoax”. The article comes from an E! news feed, and details the fact that the so-called “unauthorized documentary” of filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan which will run on the SciFi channel was a hoax. If you’ve seen the ads and have half a brain, you’ve already figured out that the “documentary” is really just a marketing ploy in the style of Blair Witch.

What’s surprising to me is the notion that people didn’t catch on to the setup. Did people really buy into the ad and start thinking Mr. Shyamalan is a closet monster or something?

Last night I had a rather odd dream that involved Chris and Justin faking the theft of my credit card and drivers licence. Boys, you have some explaining to do.