A couple of readers have inquired about the Sitemeter stats, which now report this blog as having over 100,000 hits per day (compared to about 9,000 hits per day before it went mad, which is still above average for summer).  The recent Sitemeter reports are inaccurate, and we still can't figure out what happened.  For those interested, Statcounter appears to be giving accurate reports–click on "Public Stats" in the lower left column.