Blue Collar Scientist

My posting on Some Expelled Reviews has been updated with another seven reviews, bringing the total to nineteen. Just thought I’d mention it if you have some perverse need to read even more about this morally bankrupt and abhorrent movie.

On the good side, though, the post has been getting a gargantuan amount of traffic. At any given moment, I’m number four to six on the front page of Google on a search for “Expelled reviews,” trading places periodically with the NCSE’s Expelled Exposed site, which I’ve been linking to every chance I get for a month. That makes me inordinately proud, but wasn’t really my intention when I posted - I posted the article as an index that other bloggers could use to quickly and easily find reviews on opening day, and I did it because I was up, developing software for an astronomical observatory, as midnight swept across North America and the reviews were released.

But Bay of Fundie noticed the post right away and linked to it, and then Skepchick included it in their daily Quickies, and after that so did a bunch of others. Then it hit StumbleUpon, and that’s when things started to go really well for that post.

Or really badly, depending on your perspective. Currently, the site is running really slowly, even though I’m caching the post and supposedly doing everything right. I’m wondering when my cheap and incompetent hosts will pull the plug (if that happens, we have a plan, so no worries - we’ll be back). I never expected this blog to get the kind of traffic it has been getting - I thought I’d develop a few hundred loyal readers and labor on in anonymity. But I’m not complaining!

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