And #3001 was the greatest blog ever written. Pity.

The page counter you see on the right sidebar at the top has a link to the top 3000 blogs that use that particular counter (out of over 24,000). (Hey - Bramble Tamble is in there, in the mid-2800s!)

Here's a look at some of the blogs that are scraping the bottom of the top 3000 as of right now. Check them out if any of them strike your fancy.

3000. Running With Sticks - A blog focused mostly on knitting with some other thoughts tossed in.

2999. Circuitous Thoughts - A woman in Adelaide writes this blog. She "swears inventively," she says, which is refreshing - a lot of swearing anymore is really pretty gratuitous and superfluous. She writes in parentheticals a lot, even more than I do. Seems pretty clever also. Pluses: the Spinal Tap quotes at the bottom of the right sidebar. Minuses: Posts only about once a month, but at least when she does, she writes a lot. So that's only, like, a half-a-minus.

2998. Puntos de Fuga - In Spanish or Portuguese. Strange picture under the third post (date is "lunes, enero 08, 2007").

2997. Gazete Servisi - I have no idea what the hell this is. Appears to be a list of newspapers in Europe and other far-off locales. Not being versed in ... well, whatever that language is ... I couldn't tell you for sure.

2996. Word Play - Teenager. Hasn't blogged since September. Key quotes include "I don't understand vandalism," "I'm experiencing my first hurricane .... (t)he thunder is so loud!" and "Southern life revolves around pigs." Seriously, today's teenagers seem a little more wise (and wise to the world) than when I was that age. Or maybe I was just very, very, very naive then. (I'd bet on the latter - I remember how shocked I was at our senior party when one of my classmates pulled out a cigarette and started smoking.)

Anyway, check these blogs out (or don't - I really don't have a stake in it) before they fall off the list into oblivion. At least the ones in English. And that one with the picture.