This is one of those moments when one can only think, "why didn't anyone think of this before?"

Jeff at Beautiful Atrocities has put together "A Foot Fetishist's Guide to the Blogosphere," featuring the tootsies of many eminent bloggers. This is the kind of public service that should win him an award.

At least, from people who dig feet.

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Which means that Power Line isn't available, and if you want Glenn, you need to go to the Instapundit Backup Site (where he'll be posting tomorrow, Saturday, if the problem persists; right now, he's in bed).

It looks like it was a DDOS attack. (More on Denial of Service problems at WikiPed, including DDOS's.)

It's been alleged that the targets were right-wing sites; anyone know any left-leaning sites that use Hosting Matters?

Very odd.

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1 I wouldn't want to be Hosting Matters right now. They'd see the amount of nasty stuff I've had to deal with for MuNu multiplied by a hundred or so.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 08, 2005 01:15 AM (+S1Ft)

2 From my POV it looks like some kind of DoS has been aimed at Atilla. This site is generally pretty snappy for me (I use 3Mbps DSL at home). This morning it has taken upwards of five minutes to load this page

Posted by: Neal at January 08, 2005 01:37 AM (PRN2J)

3 I think there's some element on the page being loaded from somewhere else that's having trouble. The mu.nu server is running fine today (touch wood).

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 08, 2005 01:54 AM (+S1Ft)

4 Hosting Matters is back, and by strange coincidence this blog is now zoomy fast again.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 08, 2005 02:22 AM (+S1Ft)

5 Weird.

Posted by: Attila Girl at January 08, 2005 09:44 AM (8TapF)

6 Shhhh. I had to get the competition out of the way for awhile. Glenn can't have ALL the traffic. I'm sorry but he can't.

Posted by: jeff at January 08, 2005 06:04 PM (UVSIi)

7 I was wondering when the Robin Hood of the blogosphere would come along to set things right . . .

Posted by: Attila Girl at January 08, 2005 07:06 PM (8TapF)

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Jeff of Beautiful Atrocities has some answers from the Muslim Dear Abbey. Like, who knew it wasn't okay to read while on the toilet? Not me.

UPDATE: Iowahawk makes a good thing better. Read this one after you drop by Jeff's place.

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. . . is fighting blogger burnout at Protein Wisdom.

Possible cures:

1) People might stop by more, boosting his traffic and lifting his spirits;

2) Someone "important" could link him;

3) Scrappleface could stop blogging, and send his traffic to Jeff;

4) A company or five might buy a handful of blogads, yielding some actual income for this hobby/disease of blogging;

5) Some of his fans might send him their underwear (perhaps bras rather than panties, so as not to upset Mrs. Wisdom);

6) He might pace himself, and only write a couple of entries a day, filling the extra time with some other hobby/disease/vice/addiction;

7) Jeff could watch Play Misty for Me, and ponder the notion that every fan is a potential stalker. This might lead him to watch his step and drop the threats of quitting.

Just tryin' to be helpful.

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. . . Though, in all fairness, I must admit I hope it doesn't happen quite this way. Not in every particular, at least. (The film is supposedly eight minutes long, but it felt like 4-5. They say if you give it two minutes, you'll stay for the whole eight.)

Via the Commissar, who's declared himself a "light blogger" for the indefinite future. The Ghost of Allah, I believe, is whispering in bloggers' ears: "if it doesn't pay enough to be a job, are you enjoying it enough to make it a hobby?" Don't listen: he'll drive you mad.

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Via Tulip Girl, I just ran across the most amazing set of blog awards for 2004. Voting is open for the first two weeks of 2005, but you'll need a lot of time, since virtually none of the blogs is the least bit well-known (with the possible exception of Tulip Girl herself). It's called the "Best of Blog" (or BoB/Bob) awards.

The concept is fascinating, and the entire enterprise is designed to 1) highlight smaller blogs that may not get too much traffic, and 2) steer away from political bloggers and toward those who focus on such concerns as knitting, writing, homeschooling (Tulip Girl's category), cooking, fitness, parenting, and sex.

It's a truly charming concept, and was put together by a group of panelists who made the sacrifice of exempting themselves from their respective categories. (And, no—I hadn't heard of any of them, either.)

Those of us who take the blogosphere seriously as a full-spectrum entertainment arena should check some of these "personal bloggers" out. (My own favorite on a few of those subjects is Angelweave, though Heather's blogging's been light lately and she keeps forgetting to set MT so that it shows the last several posts, rather than the last several days' worth of posts. The secret? Go to her main site, find the "recent entries" on her sidebar, and simply click on those one by one. That'll work until she fixes the display issue. She is the queen of fitness and nutrition bloggers, so stay and peruse the archives, too.)

It's also nice to remember that there's more to life than whatever political point of view we're respectively pushing (those of us who have a political bent, that is—and if you figure out what my own political orientation is, please do let me know). Don't our near and dear keep telling us we should "get out more"? Well, this is "getting out," without having to shed our pyjamas. Everyone wins.

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. . . I'm being accused of having dirty boobs. I don't think I do, because I'm positive my husband would have let me know. He's always checking them, and it was never before clear what he was checking for, exactly, but now I understand that it must have been dirt.

So I'm pretty sure that the quick-swipe-with-a-bar-of-soap-on-the-underside system works, and it takes 10 seconds, incuding rinse time. But just to be sure, I'll have my husband check 'em again. Because who wants to walk around with dirty boobs? Not me.

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. . . will be moving into the new pad as we begin 2005.

(I don't know if I'm supposed to link it, but I just did—so I suppose I'll find out.)

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