*I've learned two new expressions today -- muffin top and whale tail. Muffin top refers to fat rolls that spill over a waist line, produced by too much beer in men or clueless fashionistas who combine hip huggers and blubber with a short top (one of the worst fashion statements among teen girls ever). The whale tail refers to the top of a thong before it disappears into someone's nether regions.
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*There's some sensational numbers related to blogs: 14 million tracked by Technorati, the number of blogs doubles every 5.5 months, and a new blog is born every second. However, John Hawkins of Right Wing News did a little digging, according to columnist Michelle Malkin, and concluded that there only a few thousand human-operated political blogs that update every day, i.e., less than one-tenth of one percent of the 14 million blogs tracked by Technorati.
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*I've been thinking about developing a short list of rules after recent scrapes with blog commenters. But there's something about listing a set of rules that bugs me. So, I'll boil it down to these simple instructions: Keep it civil and short.
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*Huckleberries Online nailed its fourth consecutive month of 100,000 pageviews in July, although not by much. The dog days of summer definitely are affecting traffic. But 104,852 is still a nice number, as is the total for the year to date: 620,348. At this rate, HBO is in line to hit the magic 1 million mark sometime in November. That'll be amazing. Thanx.

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