Not exactly a new observation, I know. But my reason may be a bit different.

This afternoon someone linked to my TMW about The Matrix from a comment on "Cracked.Com", which I think comes close to being the strangest refer I've ever gotten. I didn't know what to expect from that, and it hasn't resulted in a lot of traffic.

But links at high-traffic sites nearly always cause secondaries, because people see my stuff for the first time and in turn link from somewhere else. Someone who saw it at cracked.com linked to it from their Facebook page.

The problem is that Facebook opens individual pages inside a frame. If you follow the link, the referer is the outside frame, not the inside page. And that is just a link to Facebook's main page. So I have no idea at all who it was or what they said about me. All I know is I'm getting lots of links tonight from someone at Facebook.

Strangely enough, when I load Facebook's main page, it's in Japanese. That's the page you get if you say "English (US)". It looks exactly the same as the one you get when you click the Japanese choice. I do believe someone fouled up.

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