Thought Torrent - Old Blond Joke

It may be old, but this is still the best blond joke ever.

It's been passed between blogs and forums since at least May 2003. It's even been translated into German, Hebrew, Spanish, and Danish.

Someone else was cool enough to visualize it's heritage, but his data seems very incomplete. I spent entirely too much time going through both Technorati and Google to collect my data.

The format is simple: each link points to the one on the next line. Blank lines separate heritages. I stop when 1) the path connects to the known graph or 2) I get an error (cleverly denoted by "Error"). Now I just need to graph this. Graphics are not my speciality. I know at least one technique for this and I know there's existing software that will do it; I don't know what that software is :p [edit: Graphviz seems to do what I need]

I'd also like to use the Internet Archive to resolve some of the errors.

The data is current at the time I hit post. I will not update it to reflect new growth, including writing a script to track it's growth. I have other things to do :p

[edit: Graph!

full size

I used numerical IDs to help keep it small. See the key if you want too know what a node is.

Top URLs by inbound links:
21 : http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/blond_joke/
15 : Error
13 : http://www.w-a-s-a-b-i.com/archives/2005/12/22/best-blond-joke-ever/
13 : http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-01-02.html#n25

Lastly, for posterity, here's the perl script]