Madeleine Begun Kane, Humor Columnist, gently informs me that I’ve been scooped with regard to my Google Top Ten First-Name award:

I enjoyed your comments about Google’s first name top 10 and thought you might be amused by my piece on a similar subject written 3 or 4 years ago back when Madeleine Albright was Secretary of State:

Surfing for Madeleines

Meanwhile, Mark Dionne would strip me of my award for minor, perceived technical breaches. He writes:

I checked Google for “David” and on the first page I get:JOHO the Blog
… W. David Stephenson, with whom I wrote an op-ed for the Miami Herald about why the Homeland Security page sucks, has two followups: …
www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ – 72k – 15 Jul 2002 – Cached – Similar pages

It would seem that David Stephenson gets the award, not you! And it’s number 9, not number 8.

First, it’s only #9 if you count the sub-page hit for The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. I choose not to.

Second: No freaking way! The link is to my blog, not W. David Stephenson‘s. It’s not even a link to the particular blog entry that makes the now-obvious mistake of mentioning W. David Stephenson: it links to this blog’s home page. So, if W. Stinking David Stephenson wants to make up an award for himself that says “Mentioned on a Google Top Ten First-Name Page,” he can. Otherwise, the prize is mine mine mine mine and not you nor a platoon of embittered loser Davids can take it away from me. And if you try, I’ll just change the rules again. Bwahahahaha.

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