As PfRC turns seventeen years old we wanted to once again extend our gratitude to our readership and to the members of the wider blogosphere (many of those fellow caretakers are listed under our Smøgåsblog) and new ones discovered for their serendipity, sustainment and inspiration that keeps the internet curious, entertaining, engrossing and engaging.
Since hitting our last milestone, here’s a round-up of some of our most popular posts with a few honourable mentions from the past year. Then it’s birthdays all the way down:
10: Reviving the old racist names of US sports franchises
9: An assortment of premium links
8: A remembrance of the past year’s departed
7: Carsinisation
6: Governance per tweet
5: musical backmasking on LinkedIn
4: Howard Hughes’ streaming service
3. A visit to the Tauber valley
2: A 1954 encounter with a meteorite
1: US presidential regnal numbers
synchronoptica
one year ago: blogoversaries all the way down, the People’s Crusade, the Berlin Crisis of 1961, a defector to North Korea, quibbling over possessive apostrophes plus assorted links worth the revisit
thirteen years ago: WWII week: submarine warfare, the single currency and quantitative easing plus the Lost Autobahn
fourteen years ago: more rainy summer plus quelling unrest and violence
fifteen years ago: a trip to Leipzig
seventeen years ago: a trip to the Bretagne