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5/31/07
Weekend Assignment #168: Historical Excisions
5/31/07
How I Spent My Memorial Day Weekend
5/31/07
Death! Death to the Spammers!
5/30/07
Talk About Your Unintended Consequences
5/30/07
As Long As We're Going Down This Road Today --
5/30/07
I'm Kind of in a Space-y Mood at the Moment --
5/29/07
This Just In: Men Can't Shop
5/29/07
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
5/29/07
The TV! It's Attacking!
5/28/07
While You're Enjoying Your Memorial Day Weekend...
5/28/07
Monday Photo Shoot: Your Memorial Day Weekend
5/27/07
This Car Would Totally Fail Every Crash Test You Can Think Of
5/27/07
An Astronomical Picture Full of Awesomeness
5/26/07
Two Car-Related Links
5/25/07
Your Friday Music: Smashing Pumpkins
5/25/07
Sloth: The Hippest Deadly Sin!
5/25/07
Is The Force With You?
5/24/07
Weekend Assignment #167: Bad TV You Loved as a Kid
5/24/07
Posterized!
5/24/07
Something I'm Going to Be Needing, Like, Real Soon
5/23/07
Quote of the Day
5/23/07
The Curious Case of People Out in the Daytime
5/23/07
Darth Vader: Basket Case
5/22/07
Three Unrelated Science Stories
5/22/07
Self-Worth and Procrastination
5/22/07
Brood XIII: The Terror is Unstoppable!
5/21/07
Monday Photo Shoot: Postermaking
5/21/07
The Playlist
5/21/07
Monday Techno Links!
5/21/07
Some Amazing Photos for Your Monday Morning
5/20/07
Really Really Really Cheap Computers
5/19/07
My God: Soon The Computers Won't Need Us To Make Small Talk Anymore!
5/18/07
Just to Make You a Little Paranoid
5/18/07
Your Friday Music: Barracuda
5/18/07
Your Heartwarming Cat Related Story for Friday
5/17/07
The "B" Roll
5/17/07
Weekend Assignment #166: Rock Out
5/17/07
Giving More Hope To Desperate, Desperate Men
5/16/07
Look, Ma! I Done Me a Video!
5/16/07
Look! A Cat! Or, New Improvements to AOL Journals
5/16/07
The Stony Lonesome -- Really Stony, Really Lonesome
5/15/07
Don't Drive Anywhere in Miami
5/15/07
In Case You Needed Motivation to Wear a Bicycle Helmet
5/15/07
Zzzzzz
5/14/07
Your Monday Photo Shoot: The Letter "B"
5/14/07
Birthdays to Remember
5/14/07
Size Does Matter (and so does shape)...
5/13/07
Happy Mothers' Day!
5/12/07
B is the New C
5/11/07
Making Your Dog Understand Quantum Physics
5/11/07
Weekend Assignment #165: Memorable Birthdays
5/11/07
Catching Up With Weekend Assignments and Photo Shoots
5/10/07
Whoa, Look at That --
5/9/07
Wait, Before I Go...
5/9/07
Sheep!
5/8/07
In the Nation's Capital
5/8/07
Giving the Earth a Spinal Tap
5/7/07
Oh, and Just to Creep You Out
5/7/07
The Monday Photo Shoot Without an Example Photo
5/7/07
Laptop Fall Down Go Boom
5/6/07
The Nicest Out the Hotel Window Picture
5/5/07
Minneapolis From (Somewhat) Above
5/4/07
The Least Inspiring Hotel Window Picture of the Book Tour
5/4/07
Your Friday Funny
5/4/07
A (not so) Bubbly View
5/4/07
Doing the Wave
5/3/07
Weekend Assignment #163: Weather With You
5/3/07
Quick Note Re: Thursday Updates
5/2/07
Portland, City of Roses
5/2/07
A Map of the Web
5/1/07
Reversing Memory Loss?
5/1/07
Lagomorphically Cute!
5/1/07
Amphibiously Cute!
5/1/07
Scottsdale Views
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007
10:26:00 AM EDT
Hearing Nothing at the moment

A Map of the Web


Which, in addition to being witty and funny, is also strangely practical, as it measures geographical area by how many people use each "nation" listed on the map. What it ends up looking like is one of those maps in the front of a fantasy novel. And yes, AOL is there. How could it not be?


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  • #3 Comment from centw 
    5/3/07 3:08 PM | Permalink
    Yay xkcd!   My son and I both get a big kick out of that comic.
  • #2 Comment from monponsett 
    5/3/07 12:04 PM | Permalink
    We should have more clout than that.
  • #1 Comment from coelha 
    5/2/07 12:32 PM | Permalink
    HA HA ...  Don't call yourself a big fat dork!  :)  Julie