The lines that draw us together

I am on Blogspot, and it is the year 2010, clearly, from the default template that greets me, complete with 38x38px floral background tile on repeat. My curiosity, piqued from a line in a recent news article, has sent me to this far-flung corner of the internet—for how can I not be curious when it has to do with a blog? The spike in the pageview counter in the left column reveals that I am not…