] Downtown resident returns from trip to find belongings
] silver-coated

Great practicle joke w/ pictures.

Friends foil Olympia man's home / South Sound -The Olympian

] What happens when you cheat on your wife? Notice the
] stuffed fish on the trailer hitch. The pictures were
] taken by Jill Miles in Irving, Texas off 11th street.

Epson PhotoCenter - Visit Albums - View Photo

Here it is folks, the 2003 usage statistics for Memestreams.net! I wanted to have this out sooner but I rang in the new year on a ski slope in West Virginia.

As you can see, the site is continuing to grow. Its worth comparing this with the statistics from 2002, which are at http://www.memestreams.net/awstats.html

The monthly usage graph is drawn to scale, so keep in mind that the usage in Jan 2003 is greater then the usage in Dec 2002. Scale the graphs in your head and you can see the progression. We are still trucking forward, and yet we are still very much in the early part of a network effects curve. This years Unique Visitors number is just a little over an order of magnitude larger then last year's. I hope to see another order of magnitude increase next year.

An interesting thing occurred in September of 2003. We got referral spammed. This means that a group of people set up robots which hit our site and claimed to be a web browser which came in from a link on a site that these people are trying to advertise. As a result I can't show you the statistics for referrals from other websites. They are spammed out. This also means that there was a bit of a spike in the overall numbers in September. The later months of the year were also impacted by the holidays. People simply tend to use the internet a lot less over Thanksgiving and Christmas.

In any event, hope you find this all interesting, and Happy New Year!

Statistics of www.memestreams.net for 2003

A cool animation made with 48 Canon EOS 300D's.

Canon | you connect | Winter2003 | Slice of the Action

] MILWAUKEE -- Miller High Life is toasting a century as
] "the champagne of beers," but the enduring symbol of
] Milwaukee's brewing past is feeling its age.
]
] Overshadowed by trendier drinks and encroached on by
] light and low-carb beers, Miller Brewing's former
] flagship brand has stumbled from its bar stool and is
] trying to revive its heritage.

Cheers to the High Life.

Miller High Life toasts 100 years | The Janesville Gazette | Janesville, Wisconsin, USA

] There is not a better CPU cooling system than liquid
] nitrogen. We learned firsthand how to sufficiently cool
] the Intel P4 to -196°C to bring it past the 5 GHz mark.
] For the non-believer, the THG video capture it all on
] tape.

Tom's Hardware Guide Processors: 5 GHz Project: CPU Cooling With Liquid Nitrogen Record Attempt: The 5 GHz Project

] HONOLULU -In an announcement with grave implications
] for the primacy of the species of man, marine biologists
] at the Hawaii Oceanographic Institute reported Monday
] that dolphins, or family Delphinidae, have evolved
] opposable thumbs on their pectoral fins.
]
] "I believe I speak for the entire human race when I say,
] 'Holy fuck,'" said Oceanographic Institute director Dr.
] James Aoki, noting that the dolphin has a cranial
] capacity 40 percent greater than that of humans. "That's
] it for us monkeys."

End the year with a laugh.

The Onion | Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs

] The unique loading chamber holds up to 6 Labatt Blue cans
] in a cool and safe environment

It's not too late to give me my xmas present...

The Perfect Gift

] The United States does not lack - either now or in the
] foreseeable future - sufficient numbers of capable people
] who would like to work in IT," Ellis wrote.
]
] "But those people may not be willing to conclude that
] long-run demands for their services will be good enough
] to support IT as a sensible career choice."

Experts debate future of technology careers - billingsgazette.com

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