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		<title>I&#8217;m not even sure what I think of me anymore</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alan Trotter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Detainee 063]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t mentioned Detainee 063 here again since the post announcing that it was happening and one (good) reason for that is that I don&#8217;t particularly want this to turn into the web&#8217;s first books/design/torture blog. Some combinations just seem strange&#160;together.
But then it&#8217;s already been kind of a strange day on the internet for&#160;me.
On Monday, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#8217;t mentioned <a href="http://detainee063.com" target="_blank">Detainee 063</a> here again since the post <a href="http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog/2009/11/detainee-063/" target="_blank">announcing that it was happening</a> and one (good) reason for that is that I don&#8217;t particularly want this to turn into the web&#8217;s first books/design/torture blog. Some combinations just seem strange&nbsp;together.</p>
<p>But then it&#8217;s already been kind of a strange day on the internet for&nbsp;me.</p>
<p>On Monday, the site got its first real burst of attention, getting linked <a href="http://kottke.org/09/12/detainee-063" target="_blank">by Kottke</a> (thanks to <a href="http://generalprojects.com/" target="_blank">Ben Pieratt</a>) and from there finding it&#8217;s way <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/87252/Detainee-063" target="_blank">to Metafilter</a>. And then last night <a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/12/09/detainee-063-seriali.html" target="_blank">Boing Boing posted about it</a>. From having daily visits in the low double digits and about the same number of followers <a href="http://twitter.com/Detainee063" target="_blank">on Twitter</a>, in the last few days it&#8217;s had more than 12,000 visits, and it&#8217;s now got more than 400 followers on Twitter and another couple of hundred for the RSS feed. Those are numbers that plenty of big sites could laugh off, but it&#8217;s definitely good news for something like this, and I&#8217;m very happy about it. (What will be interesting will be to see how quickly and how sharply people on Twitter stop following the site. It&#8217;s not a particularly pleasant experience to follow, and I wouldn&#8217;t blame&nbsp;anybody.)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://detainee063.com"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1076" style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;" title="Detainee 063 screengrab" src="http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Detainee063screengrab-500x351.gif" alt="Detainee 063 screengrab" width="500" height="351" /></a></p>
<p>Then today, something I&#8217;d written went up <a href="http://mcsweeneys.net/" target="_blank">at the McSweeney&#8217;s website</a> – an article titled &#8216;<a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/12/10trotter.html" target="_blank">I am locking the Wikipedia article on our sex&nbsp;life</a>&#8217;.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; ">So there you go, whether you <a href="http://detainee063.com" target="_blank">want to think about the horrendous torture policies of the Bush administration and the damage they&#8217;ve done to human lives and to the course of justice in the war of terror</a>, or you just <a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/12/10trotter.html" target="_blank">want jokes about vaginas</a>, I&#8217;ve got you&nbsp;covered.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; ">And thank you for visiting the web&#8217;s first books/design/torture/sex comedy&nbsp;blog.</p>
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