scriptygoddess

Here's a few steps you can do to protect against some of the spambots:
Master-SpamBot IP, deny this!
[found via weblogtoolscollection]

There's new bulletin board software in town…
bbPress
From Matt, the maker of WordPress – comes bbPress.

JD just sent me this link to his site:
Script to rename your wp-admin folder.
As he says – it's not a foolproof method to protect your site, but certainly not a bad idea.

UploadBin
Kind of like pastebin – but for files, and Mark offers it up so you can download and host it on your own server.
wp-hashcash
A version of Spam Stopgam Extreme.
[seen on a lot of sites, but most recently on PhotoMatt and Weblogtoolscollection]
WordPress "Suggest" plugin
Kind of like "Google's Suggest" feature – for WordPress Searches.
[blogginpro]
WP-lists Plugin
Centralized List management [...]

The WP-Gallery Plugin 0.1 offers a nice, easy way to include your Gallery albums and photos within a WP powered blog.

Earlier this week, the 1.2.2 version of WordPress was released. This release fixes a few bugs and security issues and is recommended for all 1.2 users. More about the upgrade in the WP Development blog. Wondering what files changed? Here's a list.

The last time I did any extensive web dev on the mac was about… oh, maybe SIX! years ago. Eek, I feel old. In any case, I've been doing everything on the PC since then, and while I have a number of really great tools on the PC that I like, I'm clueless when it [...]

There's a pretty serious security bug with WP 1.2.1 (and the current 1.3 alpha), one that can make it so your blog is basically unusable (not permanently, as far as I can tell) but still – if you're using WordPress you should probably make this change.
In any case, here is how you fix the problem. [...]

Need to bookmark this so I can find it again…
QuickTabPrefToggle
Adds some great preferences/options relating to tabs, etc. (for example, can force links that would ordinarily open in a new window in a tab in the background.
The author of that extension also has a few others too that look interesting. Here's the extensions homepage

Just saw this on the hackers mailing list:
User Comments Plugin
This plugin will moderate comments from users who are not registered and logged in users of the site.