Archive for August 2nd, 2005

Out-of-Control Orgies in Dutch Parks

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This must be a new development.  In his youth,
the Dowbrigade lived an entire summer in the back of a VW van parked
at the edge of Vondel Park, and we didn’t get invited to or even witness
a single orgy. However, in this day and age of shameless hype and psycho-shills,
how can we be sure this story isn’t a plant by the Dutch Tourism Board? We
may have to investigate, first hand…

from Ananova

Spreading Faster than Herpes…

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Summary:

  • Technorati was tracking over 14.2 Million weblogs, and over 1.3 billion
    links in July 2005
  • The blogosphere continues to double about every 5.5 months
  • A new blog is created about every second, there are over 80,000 created
    daily
  • About 55% of all blogs are active, and that has remained a consistent
    statistic for at least a year
  • About 13% of all blogs are updated at least weekly

from the Technorati
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Harvard Prof Finds Free Shit Expensive

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from the Boston Globe