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[Hey FSC shoppers... sorry not have been blogging. I've been spending more time at Circulars, the blog I set up for poets and artists to speak out against the war. But I did come across this, which seems a bit unsuitable for Circulars because basically quite useless, but amusing.
War Blogging: Announcing the "Index of Evil"
Announcing the "Index of Evil"
The time has come for a new metric of how this nation is faring. We have plenty of financial metrics -- the Dow Jones Industrial Average, for instance, or the Standard & Poor 500. Politically and militarily, however, we have few ways of measuring the health of our nation without polling. And so it's with great pleasure that the people behind War Blogging bring you the Index of Evil -- a measure of how much people are thinking about those truly Evil Ones who infest our world.
The Index of Evil is arrived at by measuring the number of times certain people's names are mentioned on weblogs in a given day. The total number of mentions for those people is that day's Index of Evil. The Index of Evil has four components -- the Ashcroft Index, the bin-Laden Index, the Hussein Index and the Poindexter Index (the Omar Index was replaced with the Poindexter Index on December 5, 2002).
Posted by Brian Stefans at February 16, 2003 11:37 PM