fine whine

I've written about coincidences before. More than likely I will do it again. Anyway, some strange happenings have been, er, happening in a much more virtual context. So they don't really matter as much, and they're more likely more coincidental.

Anyway, I run a links blog, ketchup. As far as I know, nobody visits it. Sure, I get hits but I'm rather convinced that most of them are robots, or crackers trawling for a vulnerable server. Why, I wonder, do the crackers not go after the robots? So I periodically post links. There are more than sixty links listed, all culled from random surfing and other sources. One such source is BoingBoing. It's a great site, run by a great bunch of people, linking to wonderful and interesting places to go and things to see. I bookmark a great many of them.

So I was a little surprised to find a link to Michael Menkin's site about aliens and children. On Ketchup I had linked to its sister site, wherein Menkin explains the methods and necessity of procuring a thought-screen helmet. And so soon! But it's a big web out there — some would call it worldwide — and such things can happen by chance.

I was surprised a day later to find a link to TokyoFlash, another site I'd linked on Ketchup. The writeup was only two down from Menkin's. Could it have been coincidence again? I know it's not malice or something sinister, since BoingBoing had two other sources for the same links. I doubt it's malfeasance in any form, but I have to say it's strange. Eerie even. But I'm not mad. In a way, it's kinda cool.