This image makes me smile:

Not only has the Akismet plugin spared me from wading through the filth that is comment spam, but it has done so silently and to an affect I am wholly impressed by. There is another point I am impressed by, in that there have been 1035 spam comments and pingbacks posted to my blog over the last 15 days, which equates to approximately 69 a day. This manner of spamming is something I had not had a grasp of the magnitude of, so I would like to express my respect to the developers involved in Akismet, and my continuing derision to those who spam.