And the Full Moon is a Week Away....

Maybe there's something bizarre in the air. Maybe the imminent release of filmmaker Michael Moore's movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, has legislators, politicians, elected officials and average folks everywhere a little on edge. How else to explain what's floating to the top of the BlogPulse world in today's results?

Probably not surprisingly, Moore has risen to the top of the key people list, and references to his movie -- with reviews and commentary covering every possible slant and opinion -- appear throughout BlogPulse's key links. And apprently Moore's isn't the only political film generating buzz. More films to be released between now and the November election include The Hunting of the President, Silver City, and The Corporation.

But that's not the bizarre part of today's results. I'll let the references to Judge Donald B. Thompson stand on their own. Hold the puns, please. Meanwhile, over in spam-land, AOL engineer Jason Smathers managed to bolt from obscurity to instant notoriety among BlogPulse's key people after being arrested on federal charges of selling 92 million AOL screen names to spammers. Let his sentence be an inbox filled with e-mail come-ons for mortgage refinancing offers, enhancement pills and cheap prescription drugs...every day, for the rest of his life.

There's also news of the genetically abnormal musclar baby from Germany and Dick Cheney's potty mouth. (For the curious, the Washington Times printed the verbatim comment).

But a bow of the head in deepest respect, please, for the late 84-year-old Bob Bemer, computer pioneer who developed the code that allows computers to understand text as a series of numbers. He passed away June 22 in Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas. His USA Today obituary says his personal motto was..."((((DO SOMETHING!) SMALL) USEFUL) NOW!"