Other people have more to say than I do

[flexagon]

Newsmap is pretty cool, and definitely nicer to look at than the CNN site.

Google's hot trends of today (from the trends lab) are also a nice way of seeing what's on the world's mind today. (Really though, people, "2008 men of mortuaries calendar"?)

"I was in paradise but cursed with the knowledge that I didn’t deserve it" -- I have no idea what that guy is talking about. Move along.

Potentially dangerous listing of the Best Blogs of 2006. May be triggering to those who are addicted to websurfing. Go easy.

Lastly, there's some pretty amazing internet drama over at meganhaditcoming.blogspot.com. Real or fake, this is your chance to think deep thoughts about life, death, bullying, youth and causality while seeing someone called every name under the sun (including torturer -- I mean, wow).

Comments

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Is it bad that I have men of mortuaries 07?

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

Are they shirtless?

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Indeed! And hottie hot hot.

[silver-spork.livejournal.com]

If the blog is real, that woman has the worst lawyers on the face of the planet. Right or wrong, I'm sure there is a civil suit for wrongful death coming.

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

No kidding. And what kind of a parent is she? She has the maturity of a teenager.

[silver-spork.livejournal.com]

You know, this whole story just reinforces my #1 reason not to have kids - the other kids' parents.

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Torturing the rest of the population is how they alleviate their own pain.

[flexagon]

And here I thought nobody did that worse than the teenagers themselves. So wrong, I was so wrong!

[flexagon]

Yeah, I have a bit more info on it now. I was tracking it during the day at work, because as a Blogger engineer I have some professional interest in our policies and whether/when we'd take this blog down. (I'm also rather sickly fascinated.)

I present the following:

1. I posted anonymously, stating that impersonating another person is a violation of Blogger policy (giving the link) and saying that there's no proof of violation. My comment disappeared quickly. Why would the real Lori do that?

2. I saw other comments saying that comments with any sort of "proof" that the blog was a hoax were also disappearing.

3. There's an article online in a St. Louis paper saying that a sheriff's office is investigating the blog.

So, I guess it's probably fake. Should be interesting to watch it play out. And another thing? Goddamn am I glad they didn't have MySpace yet when I was a teenager.

[silver-spork.livejournal.com]

I'm with you there. There was enough trouble with plain old gossip in a small town without Myspace impersonation, text message harassment, etc.

[birdofparadox.livejournal.com]

Ohohohoh!

I meant to tell you!

I got my first commission from the ads last week!

[flexagon]

SWEET! I haven't checked the stats since last time I wrote you (and they wouldn't have told me that anyway), so this is a welcome surprise.