What's with all the trivial link spam?
SwellJoe: My theory would be that it is a new spam bot, being tested out by its creator.  Just a theory, of course.  It could also be a user with a bone to pick with HN; their blog posts consistently got deaded by moderators, perhaps, and now they're angrily trying to prove something.  Maybe they're doing it with a spam bot built for the purpose...this is Hacker News, so building such a spam bot would be trivial for most of the audience here.  A few lines of Python/Perl/Ruby would do the trick.