Looks like Defamer.com, a.k.a. “Gawker goes to Hollywood,” is public as of this morning. Choire gave us all a preview of it at the NY Blogger Talk last night.

From Defamer’s site stats, it looks like it opened its doors sometime between 9:00 and 10:00 EDT. Sometime after 11:00, the word must have begun to spread. [This was easier to see when the graph had a shorter range. Now the numbers are all squooshed.] I love the science of information propagation! (Or, uh, how the word spreads.)

And — coolest for me — my blog entry containing Tina Fey’s yearbook photo is linked from the front page today.

As for my dentist visit, the purpose of which was to determine the cause of some jaw pain (no jokes, okay), I have been given some antibiotics and I might need my wisdom teeth removed.

Perhaps this is penance.