Those weird referrer links are starting to make sense. Turns out, they are spam. For porn sites (there’s a hidden link to some kind of webcam at the bottom of each page, it would seem). A fake weblog as their front page is just an underhanded way of getting more hits and fooling Google. Which is annoying, because if a genuine weblog links to me, I want to know. And the only way to figure it out is to visit the website in question.

From this week’s Weekly Review:

Newly declassified files from MI5, the British intelligence agency, revealed that in 1940 German saboteurs had planned to attack Buckingham Palace with exploding cans of French peas. Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as governor of California.

Let me just say, it’s not the frozen peas I find ridiculous.