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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

So what about this Hello Kitty bling bling laptop?

One of the features of the new new Tech blog design is that you can see a list of the Most Viewed posts, if you click the tab on the right. And at the moment, the Most Viewed is the one called Hello Kitty notebook PC gets bling from Swarovski crystals, which I posted on Thursday June 7, 2007.

What I don't know is why.
Is it the reference to Damien Hirst in the intro? Is it Google's top hit for some obscure sexual perversion? Or has everybody just discovered a passion for Hello Kitty, or Swarovski crystals, or both?

Maybe people are looking just to see what other people are looking at. This is, after all, how things actually become popular on the web. Given an extra beat of some butterfly's wings, would we all be looking at the Sony Vaio TZ191N instead?

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