The Devil's Excrement

For quite a while I have been posting only about Venezuela, thus I am happy do digress and  note that in New Delhi the <A href=’‘>new subway is such a success that they are asking people to stay away from it! (via Blogdett):

Doonesbury now has one of the characters doing his own blog. Hope Venezuelans who read mine will realize now that a blog is not something the two Octavio brothers do, but something more widespread.

Interesting article in the NYT on the new Westin Hotel in Times Square:

“The Westin is too Latin. It’s Almodóvar. A building on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Over the edge, even. One might see that arc of light as a gauge of urban anxiety level”

Sounds very cool to me….. 

Just kidding, just a cute name to attract people to the cool story about Robert Smithson’s ”Spiral Jetty”, the sculpture that dissapeared but now thanks to the drought has once again surfaced in the Great Salt Lake, Utah to everyone’s (those that can go see it) enjoyment. (I guess I love spirals anyway…..)

A new object was found in the fringes of the solar system which brings into question whether Pluto is even a planet and not just another object in the Kuiper belt. The object named Quaoar is 800 miles in diameter and about four billon miles from earth. Pluto is about three billion miles away and about 1400 miles in diameter. Cool stuff, hope Pluto is not demoted, hate when knowledge from teh time I was young is changed.!!!

By the way Quaoar is the name for a creation force in Southern Californian Indian mythology. It will make a nice word for studying Google, there are only five references to it tonight in Google.

A man was rescued today after two months at sea:

I’ve always wondered about something like that. What do you think about? What do you do? What do you miss? Does it drive you crazy?

I guess next time he goes to Denmark he will get frequent flier miles….

Palm Inc. reported its first quarter results and it shows why one should not just read the financial headlines. Here are three views on the results:

From SiliconValley.com:

Palm first quarter loss widens on slowing demand

From CNET News.com:

Palm’s loss narrower than expected

From CBS MarketWatch:

Palm misses sales target

Sort of mixed from the headlines, but looks bad on the details.

Well, out of the millions of e-mails sent by the African scammers, I guess sometimes they feel it is worth it. Look at the case of the secretary of this law office who stole $2.1 million to wire to the scammers to “help” in transferring the $18 million Mr. Mbuso Nelson needed to transfer out of the South African Ministry of Mines. I guess greed wins too often. Overshadows the $5 record by the scamees by quite a bit.

(As shown by this article it is even worse than I thought, too mant people fall for it!!!!)

Well, today Michel revealed his secret to us in his blog, which actually is not in German, but apparently in dutch, maybe flemish. It is a hot story in Belgium, you can read the details here. Michel just happened to have the right comments in the right language. No wonder he was always ranked first in the morning, before people in the US read other pages, although today he is holding on to first place. Interesting blognamics.

I wish I understood more German to understand why Michel Vuijlsteke’s Weblog is so hot. In understand it has something to do with Veronique de Kock

but I just wonder what it is Michel linked or said that has created enough furor to make his blog as hot, after all you can find lots of her pictures online.  Right now Michel is in second place in Salon.com blogs,

1.	Scott Rosenberg’s Links & Comment		2,549
2.	Michel Vuijlsteke’s Weblog		2,224
3.	the reverse cowgirl’s blog		919
4.	filchyboy		275

but at some point today he held the #1 spot over Scott:

De dag is nog niet over en ik heb al meer dan 1400 hits… Ik geraak er maar niet over.

	Site		Hits
1.	Michel Vuijlsteke’s Weblog		1,434
2.	Scott Rosenberg’s Links & Comment		1,355
3.	the reverse cowgirl’s blog		364
4.	filchyboy		176

Two of my frustrations are not being fluent in French or Greman….damm…