Here's to Lileks:

This is the fifth anniversary of this domain, more or less. It had existed on AOL for a year and a half before that, back in the days when �Home Pages� were the new thing. Now it's blogs. Next it'll be IdSpots, or SelfLocales, or EtherZines, or whatever term they slap on it. However the model changes, the Bleat will still be the Bleat.

In five years I predict that the best blogs will be called Bleats in homage, while the worst will be called Josh.

Wednesday's bleat (April 23, 2003) is about Earth Day and the Ecological Footprint Quiz. I haven't seen the quiz but I'll bet that it doesn't tell how much space it would take to sustain us in the lifestyle to which we're accustomed if we had to rely on the sun and photovoltaic cells and all the other environmental recommendations made by these twits.

I don't consider the earth worth saving if its' going to be living with more stern women without makeup wearing hiking shorts. I still have nightmares about one group called Great Old Broads, who like to go hiking in the wilderness, sometimes in the buff. The horror.