Norway and the Ruskies; Canada winning the Googlebomb battle

One "surly media nerd" (author's term, not mine) reports that Norway and Russia may enter the fray for frozen and frost-bitten Hans Island. If the situation is "right", of course.

Ms. Nerd also contends that the "news media", which apparently in her definition includes this little corner of the web, are merely interested in the event as long as its "hot", and then forget about it. Ha! Some of the more enlightened of us realize that this is the most important and life-shattering story of our times. We simply MUST determine who actual OWNS this little ball of uninhabitable rock! We didn't give up in September as she claims (which is easy to think happened, since there's really been NO NEWS TO REPORT ... hell, why else would I be commenting on her article?)

Finally, "surly"-don't-call-me-Shirley takes a few swings at the Google ads that some more-frenetic followers of the situation have taken out to let the world know just how right they are and why everyone should believe them (She claims Canada or Canadian sympathizers are winning that battle). I believe "surly" thinks this takes away from the real problem, and that's it's pretty serious. We at As the Arctic turns think Shirley's overestimating the amount of actual readership those little plain-text ads get...

Check out the actual article ... see link at the top of this blog entry. Maybe I'll invite Ms. Nerd to comment so as not to seem "biased" :-)