Well, thats instructive. Yesterday I posted a news update with a link and comment on the military ban on troops in Afghanistan farting in the presence of the natives. Well, the hits on this web page went up 400%.

This is a Kayaking and Photography blog, and to fill in on the days I don’t get out on the water I compile news and interesting items from the internet. Personally I think the photos I publish are the best material I have to offer. Almost all of them are taken from a waters edge viewpoint on some beautiful stretches of water, sand, and marsh in Massachusetts. Of course, if I’d known that publishing links to stories about farts would be so popular I would have thrown away my camera and bought a microphone.

As Jack Benny would have said, WELL…

Gawker and 7 Other Formerly Popular Sites That Are Dead or Dying

Probably didn’t publish enough stories about bodily functions.

Libya: Lockerbie bomber ‘flees Tripoli with Col Gaddafi’

If you remember a earlier post, the British Government (of the former Liberal party) cut a disgusting deal that traded North African oil for this murders release.