Today Steve Johnson wrote a 953 word feature piece about Dilbert comics being online. He's particularly excited about a feature wherein the average joe -- even you! -- can fill in your own punchline to various strips.
953 words. On Dilbert. Online.* Truly this is internet criticism at its finest.

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Hah. At least he can admit his dorkiness.
Does he know that an alarmingly large group of people are ascribing grammatically poor phrases to pictures of cats? !!!!
what's dorkier? steven johnson writing a 953 page essay on create your own dilbert websites?
Or Tankboy counting the number of words in said steve johnson column?
The word count came courtesy of a 2-second cut-n-paste of the article into Microsoft Word, so don't worry, I didn't strain my eyes or anything.