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Twentysix years on, has the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade - on tonight - lost its edge...
Mellowed in mainstream

When traffic goes wild
NAVEL GAZING....Are blogs influencing the outside world? Absolutely. The Guardian reports today that its most popular story of the past week was loaded ten times as much as its #2 story. Blogs accounted for the difference: The page loaded 456,671 times was a story, originally published by the Observer, about a secret Pentagon report which warned the Bush administration that global warming could destroy the American way of life as they knew it.x
· It's them damn liberal bloggers faults
· See Also Daily Kursor

Google Blog records everything from the release of new versions to the special logos Google puts on to mark such events as Halloween, Christmas and St Patrick's Day. It can point you to new tricks for finding what you seek, and to sites where expert developers are discussing their Google projects. Author Aaron Swartz has some credibility with the company; he recently got a tour of their offices, duly documented with his digital camera and posted on the blog.
· See Also Google Blogspace
· Cold beer and killer women
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