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June 01, 2006

Sports Fever, in Context (And WWJF?)

Strange and curious sightings in the blogosphere today...

From the sports desk
It's obvious that blogging is a worldwide phenomenon when there's far more buzz for the upcoming World Cup soccer championships in Germany than the ongoing NBA championships in the states and the French Open tennis matches in France. A BlogPulse trend graph shows the way:

Sports Fever

Suddenly, the eBay grilled cheese sandwich makes sense
Popping up at No. 12 today among top links is an ad, obviously, for the Jesus Pan, which allows culinary believers to cook the image of Jesus Christ right into whatever they're fryin' up. WWJF indeed?

Paint With Numbers, literally
Another popular link today is OneThousandPaintings.com, which allows you to buy from Sala, a Swiss painter, an original painting (blue on white) of all the numbers, apparently, from 1-1,000. Discussion ranges from "cool idea" to "a sucker born every minute." He paints. You decide.

Posted by Sue MacDonald at June 1, 2006 03:24 PM