I've been screaming about this for a while now, as my home page looks almost like yours. Facebook needs to allow users to turn off application requests. It doesn't just feel like spam, it is spam. I've even talked to some of my friends who tell me they aren't even sending the app request and they swear they have no idea how I ended up with a request from them. If I get bitten by a vampire or asked what my favorite alcoholic drink is one more time....
This is a problem that Facebook could easily fix and one they would have done quickly in the past before they got so distracted with many of the "features" they're trying to roll out in the future.
All of these sites were beat by www.FacebookTalk.com which I launched back in September of 2006. Though I take a more casual and somewhat sarcastic approach to most Facebook news. :)
I do have a question though. Why do most of these new Facebook blogs have basically the same wordpress theme?