theworsthorse.net: horsefeed

RADAR, a Worst Horse fave (despite its recent ranking of the Dalai Lama as the 25th most-overrated cultural phenomenon of the day) has launched its new “Fame-o-Meter.” In it, various people, places, and things are rated in terms of the amount of online searches done about them.

It appears that Buddhism has driven some 88 million online searches in the past 7 days, and some 377 million in the past 30. Somewhere between Scientology and Judaism, in both cases.

Islam is the big winner, but you have to wonder if what’s going on in Burma isn’t, at least in some small way, a positive thing in that it’s making people curious about the Dharma.