Alan Moore
Wikipedia is funny. Somehow, I got from Alan Moore to Bayesian spam filtering (Alan Moore > influenced by Nicholas Roeg > who used Cut-up technique > which is used by spammers to thwart Bayesian spam filtering ). I love Wiki, even if it is a wild west, anarchic version of Encyclopedia Brittanica. I guess that's what makes it so endearing...
Speaking of Alan Moore, we saw V For Vendetta this weekend. I thought it did a surprisingly good job of adapting the original graphic novel. Very timely, too, which reminds me I need to reread 1984 again (coincidentally, John Hurt starred in both V For Vendetta and the 1984 film version of, er, 1984). I'm currently reading Moore's Promethea, which will also probably someday be made into a film that Moore will hate.