I refuse to link to that stupid "counting date" meme that's running around the blogosphere, or even provide an example because the concept is so content free. Seriously, a moment in time, when formatted according to some arbitrary human standard, looks like an ordered string of numbers. AND?!
The mind boggles.
But! some enterprising blog tracking company should do a study of where the dang thing emerged and how it spread and present the results as some form of social network analysis. The tricky bit is trying to estimate a causal event that motivated a particular blogger to post the meme, but solving such problems is half the fun. I mean where are those HP, Blogpulse, Technorati, and memetracking folks when you really need em!
Ha, ha. Only serious