I screwed up! I confused the Everywhere Girl’s blog, http://www.theeverywheregirl.com/ with a skeevy porn site at http://www.everywheregirl.com/ .

SORRY!  

The good news is, the Everywhere Girl (or “eg” as I call her) posted a comment correcting me, and she did a blog post graciously pointing out my stupidity, so I now I can realistically claim we are best friends!

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I started this post after reading an Inquirer report on the Everywhere Girl’s on again/off again entry on Wikipedia. But the more research I did the stranger this story became.

The Everywhere Girl is a model whose stock photos struck a chord with marketers and graphic designers and consequently showed up in hundreds of places all over the web. I blogged on this phenomenon on my old blog, Hyde Park.

Given the attention the Everywhere Girl has received from bloggers, it is only appropriate that she now has her own blog. But is it really “her blog” and what are its sinister underpinnings?

I am sure I am not the first to notice this, but a whois search reveals that the blog’s domain, everywheregirl.com, is owned by Studio for Publications, Inc. aka TheWetlands.com Inc. of Ocean City, Maryland. It’s unclear to me what line of business these two entities are in.

Here the plot thickens. The Educate Yourself site, attempts to implicate Jon David, listed as the administrative and technical contact for everywheregirl.com, Studio for Publications, and WetLandsInc.com, in the July 2005 London bombings! Educate Yourself appears, to me at least, to be a crackpot conspiracy theorist free-for-all. The site describes itself as:

“A free educational forum dedicated to the dissemination of accurate information in the use of natural, non-pharmaceutical medicines and alternative healing therapies in the treatment of disease conditions. Free Energy, Earth Changes, and the growing reality of Big Brother are also explored since survival itself in the very near future may well depend on self acquired skills to face the growing threats of bioterrorism, emerging diseases, and the continuing abridgement of constitutional liberties.”

A primary tool employed by Educate Yourself is what they refer to as “dowsing.” The site’s dowsing on Jon David alleges that he has ties to CIA operatives, is fluent in Arabic, had advance knowledge of the bombings, and posted on the Internet on behalf of [sic] “El-Queada,” (perhaps a Latin American Al Qaeda splinter group?).

That’s where the trail ended for me. Or at least my interest in spending any more of my time ended here. If nothing else, this post demonstrates the uncanny ability of the web to suck up three hours of research that is quite entertaining but ultimately yields nothing conclusive or credible.