So here are the top ten links of 2012:
10) The discussion, on Wikipedia, about Philip Roth asking for a correction to the article on The Human Stain.. It's the section "The book's author requests this article be corrected", and is worth reading for insight into how Wikipedia works. (2,131 hits, September 8th)
9) The detroit prosector who has been forcing the police to sort through 11,000 untested rape kits. (2,839 hits, August 29th)
8) A stunning image shows boy watching solar eclipse... taken from 1.5 miles away (2,984 hits, July 14th)
7) A terrifying way to discipline children (4,712 hits, September 9th) - now with editors note appended.
6) On modern technology being amazing (4,760 hits, December 9th)
5) Donald Trump and Alan Sugar have a fight on Twitter (7,809 hits, December 6th)
4) Something that Google put up on April 1st, and no longer exists. I think it was Google's "Really Advanced" search, which you can read more about here, along with all of the other April Fools that Google had this year. (9,596 hits, April 1st)
3) Why there are almost no pictures of Neil Armstrong on the moon (14,189 hits, August 26th)
2) What Facebook gives the police if they get a subpoena. (15,548 hits, December 27th)
1) OH MY GOD. I JUST WITNESSED THE SINGLE GREATEST MOMENT IN HUMAN HISTORY. (88,844 hits, July 30th)
A brief glance at which will tell you that I got clicked on more in the second half of the year than the first, which I entirely blame on retweets by
*These clicks are _only_ for Twitter - I only shorten links on Twitter because you used to have to, and my attempts to turn that functionality off ended up breaking things.
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