New Begins.

Blogger.com. What does it have that Xanga doesn't have? What is more appealing than MySpace? Let's discuss.

Xanga. The name is catchy, albeit odd. What does dictionary.com have to say about it? Nothing. When you type in xanga, the closest match is Sanga. Sanga: The Abyssinian ox (Bos or Bibos, Africanus), noted for the great length of its horns. It has a hump on its back.

Xanga, first off, is noted for the length of its horns. If you use horns as a metaphor for it's influence in the minds of impressionable youth, it is far reaching and devestating. Xanga also has a hump on its back. A weight that is dragging it down into the abyssinia. This hump is called MySpace.

When "myspace" is entered into dictionary.com, and interesting phenomenon occurs. An infinite loop of different arrangements of the words "my" and "space" with differing numbers of dashes and spaces peppered betwixt.

I ignored this and picked the next most interesting word that was anywhere close. Mysidacea. What the asteriskpercentampersandslash is a Mysidacea? Simple. Opossum Shrimp.

So, Xanga has horns and MySpace is Opossum Shrimp.

I know, it's a stretch. But it's more entertaining than reading msnbc.com