Maybe you had to be an expatriot who lived in a British Crown Colony in Asia during the 80s to appreciate Alphaville's lyrics and tune that I was humming while trying to keep my servers running thanks to a prominent post in Yahoo! Japan about  wikirage.  It was fun to watch 100shiki.com (100 servers) break wikirage on Friday,.  Monday japan.internet.com picked up the 100shiki story, and then Yahoo! Japan referenced the JupiterMedia piece.  The indepent blog being gobbled up by the big online player, begin completely trumped by the grandaddy Yahoo!.  

It is common knowledge that the Japanese are enamoured with American culture, and where would you get a better read on what the cool kids are talking about than the wikipedia. If I had known the damage that could be inflicted on my web server by the Japanese AM news, I probably wouldn't have built the Japanese version of wikirage over the weekend.  I thought digg was a deluge of traffic, this spike dwarfed that nearly 10 fold.  Now if I could just get this silly song out of my head.