In Top of the Heap, David Gallagher talks about his quest to become the top David Gallagher in Google (which he is), then the top David (which he isn't).
I'm the top Simon Brunning. But then I'm the only Simon Brunning, so that isn't saying much. I don't show up under Simon at all, so far as I can see. But there are over four million hits - I'm probably in there somewhere.
Peter Parker knows it. So why doesn't George Bush Jr.?
Kyoto was bad enough. But now there is the ICC.
Not to mention meddling in the Middle East, the ICBL, steel tariffs, missile testing, the Guantanamo Prisoners, the list goes on and on.
Of course, the US is by far the most powerful nation in the world, so they cannot be coerced into behaving reasonably. But there is no point Americans wingeing about being unpopular abroad...
Update 4 July: Looks like the Mirror has been reading my site. ;-)
The UK blogging seems to be thriving. You can find a pretty good list at GBLogs. They also keep a list of recently updated UK blogs.
A list of the 40 most popular (as in most linked to) blogs is on troubled diva, and blogjam has BLOGPOP, listing the most popular by traffic.
I make neither list, which is probably due to the fact that no one visits my site 'cos it's so tedeous.
Another good place for finding UK blogs is the London Bloggers Tube Map, which I have mentioned before.
I have found some interesting blogs through these sites:
Non UK specific weblog resources: Blogdex, Daypop and Weblogs.com.
Update 17th July: Hmmm. Perhaps The Edge of England's Sword is a little to the right after all.
The anti-Euro campaigners have some top names on-board - Bob Geldof, Harry Enfield, Rik Mayall, Vic Reeves, and Johnny Vaughan, for example. The sketch was certainly in poor taste, but that isn't the real issue so far as I am concerned.
The big deal is that these people - who don't know any more about the issues than we do - are using their celebrity to push their politics. What's going on?
As for Geldof, well, as David Aaronovitch says, It's as though Gandhi had taken up the fight against road humps.
Then there is Livingstone talking absolute bollocks. I'm almost speechless with anger that this idiot is giving advice on a subject that he clearly knows nothing about. MMR take-up is already at dangerous levels. He'd certainly have lost my vote, but for the fact that he never had it in the first place. (To be honest, I can't remember who I did vote for. That is how much of an impression the Lib-Dem candidate made. Decent people, the Lib-Dems, but rarely exciting.)
Update 04 July: Jesus wept, George Michael is at it now!