May showed an uptick here at the Realm.
Diggers Realm Stats And Growth For The Month Of May
The month of May saw an uptick from April in page views, and was the second highest month ever in terms of visitors.
There were 256,100 page views for May an increase of just over 28,000 from the 227,863 page views in April. In terms of visitors Diggers Realm showed an increase of 9,750 to 92,397 for May, up from 82,647 in April.
Diggers 50 Superstars Of The Month
Every month I'll be highlighting the fifty Superstar sites of the month that have been the heavy hitters at Diggers Realm.
This is just for fun and to give a little visibility to those that have sent me some traffic. Don't be offended if you didn't show up, I'm not judging you.
These sites will be featured in my Diggers Super Stars blogroll at the bottom of the right navbar until the next months Super Silly post.
If you haven't visited these sites give them a click and check them out!
Diggers Realm Super Silly Searches
These are searches that brought people to Diggers Realm this month.
Note that they didn't just search for these things, but they actually clicked through to Diggers Realm after the search was made.
Actual searches are in
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Diggers Personal Favorite Entries Of The Month
Below are some of my favorite or ridiculous posts for the month, just in case you missed them.
May 26 - 3 Injured At Protest Against Minuteman Project [Update, Pics]
Three people were injured at a protest of Minuteman Project founder James Gilchrist. Police said that the protest against the founder was an unlawful assembly. I'm sure the protesters didn't know that or care however as a lot of them ...
May 26 - Why People Don't Agree With The Religious Right
In an entry entitled "My Values Count Too: A Challenge To Secularists" over at Three Knockdown Rule, Josh puts forth the question of why people don't just accept the "Religious Right" and their conclusions on issues at face value. Why ...
May 25 - Check Out This Site: Sugar Bush Squirrel
One of the strangest sites I've happened upon is Sugar Bush Squirrel. It's really quite humorous. I found it via Ratty's Ghost who was poking fun at it. This site is owned by a woman who dresses up her little ...
May 25 - IBM And Universities Feeling The Loss Of Talented U.S. IT Workers
There is a projected shortage of IT workers in the U.S. in the coming years no doubt in part due to the way companies have been outsourcing so many jobs overseas and cutting off the path of experience that is ...
May 25 - Will US-VISIT Ever Work?
US-VISIT, a program that tracks visitors to the US through biometrics(i.e. fingerprint scans), was awarded to a company based out of the Bahamas called Accenture. Michael Cutler over at The Counterterrorism Blog questions whether this thing will ever come to ...
May 24 - "My Personal Information Was Stolen And All I Got Was This Crappy Credit Reporting Service"
Over 700,000 customers personal information was stolen from Wachovia, Commerce Bank, PNC Bank and Bank of America. It was stolen by employee's of the banks and then in some cases sold to collection agencies. To remedy the problems 2 of ...
May 24 - Anyone Watch NCIS?
Just got done watching the season finale of NCIS a minute ago and I was simply shocked. Beyond words. I don't think I've ever seen a show do that before. Holy crap. I actually yelled out "NO!" in a ...
May 24 - Report Shows 36,000 Troops Would Seal Southern Border
After the success of the Minuteman Project a new report shows that 36,000 troops or patrollers would effectively seal the southern border and stop the flow of illegal aliens. The report also slams the leadership of the Border Patrol as ...
May 24 - ForsakeTheTroops Idiot Shows Up On Hannity And Colmes [Video], Digger Breaks Down The Military Pay Scale
Michael Crook the idiot from ForsakeTheTroops.info, a website that celebrates the death of US troops, showed up on Hannity and Colmes. Head over there and watch the video of this piece of crap. According to him the troops are overpaid(?!) ...
May 23 - Supreme Court To Hear New Hampshire Parental Notification For Abortion Case
I'm 100% for parental notification for minors receiving abortions. I am also 100% for abortions. The fact that the minors life would have to be at risk in order to notify the parents is ridiculous since abortion is a medical ...
May 18 - The United States Of Iraq?
Could Iraq be divided into a federation of 6 states? Why not I say. Each region of Iraq have differing views on things. The only potential problem with it is that it could quickly descend into civil war if the ...
May 17 - My Daughter, The Hero
It was 8:30 PM and I was furious. It was getting dark out and my daughter wasn't home yet. The planning of her punishment in my head was interrupted by the phone ringing. I answered it and found out my ...
May 17 - SaveOurState Rally Against Baldwin Park Monument Attacked By Mexican Reconquistas [Pics]
A peaceful protest rally against a taxpayer funded monument declaring that California would once again be part of Mexico one day descended into chaos as 500 counter protesters showed up hurling racial slurs and openly stating that they would ...
May 16 - Field Trip To The Sacramento Capitol Building [Pics]
My kids class went on a field trip to the Sacramento Capitol today and I went along. It was an interesting trip and a tour guide walked us around explaining everything. Who knows if Arnold was there or not, ...
May 14 - Vicente Fox: Illegal Aliens "doing jobs that not even blacks want to do "
Vicente Fox has a way with words. In a meeting with Texas business people in Mexico he said illegal aliens are doing the jobs that even blacks in the US won't do. Now along with all the comments that Americans ...
May 12 - Connecticut House Says No To In-State Tuition For Illegal Aliens
In a sign that some Representatives still have a brain, Connecticut's House of Representatives voted down a proposal to provide in-state tuition to citizens of another country who snuck into the United States and have no legal residence anywhere in ...
May 12 - More Companies Firing Smokers
Where are the lawsuits. Where is the Equal Opportunity Employer outrage. More companies are now firing smokers who do it on their own time. If this was happening to drinkers, who are doing a legal act that is detrimental to ...
May 11 - Al Asad Sandstorm April 26, 2005 [Pics]
I just received an email from my mom with pictures from some of her military friends who went through a sandstorm in Al Asad on April 26, 2005. Click images below for a popup. Looks like a scene from The ...
May 11 - HR 1268, Supplemental Bill With Real ID Act Attached, Passes Senate With 100-0 Approval
The Senate voted 100-0 to approve HR 1268, also known as the "Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005", last night at 5:50PM. Attached to this legislation was the Real ID Act ...
May 11 - Feds Paid Nearly $6 Billion Over 3 Years For Criminal Alien Incarceration
That's right, you and I -- the US taxpayer -- paid out nearly $6 billion to incarcerate aliens who have broken the law. Don't you just love our tax dollars at work? WND The report by the General Accounting Office ...
May 10 - Some States May Just Ignore Real ID Act If It Is Enacted
Some Governors and state representatives are saying that they may ignore the Real ID Act, which sets federal standard and requires more verification for issuance of driver's licenses, if it is enacted. Using fear tactics that people will have to ...
You can also see all of the month's posts in the May Archives.
May 8 - Diggers Realm Super Silly Searches, Statistics and Superstars For April 2005
See last months super silly entry or see the archive of all Super Silly Searches, Statistics and Superstars
Until next month, see ya on the site!
Digger
