A lot of people in the last week posted the above image on their blogs and in news stories with the story of Swedish artist Erik Nordenankar who…

…sent a briefcase with a GPS tracking device around the world via DHL. The route the case took, as tracked on a map, became the strokes of his drawing.
via Ze Frank

Unfortunately, as the UK’s Telegraph points out as does the artist’s own web site The Biggest Drawing in the World is a work of fiction.

You have to love Internet user gullibility.

After the devastation caused by the natural disasters this past couple of weeks here are a couple of internet stats sources to see what people are writing about and searching for online.

Blog Attention

via Data Mining

Increase in Australian Seach Requests (week ending 10/05/2008)
‘myanmar’ (620%)
‘burma’ (3675%)
via HitWise