Crikey

We’ve taken the “most viewed” stories from The Age and The SMH websites from the last week and crunched them into this tag cloud.

This week was all about Sydney, with a bit of the Andrew Johns drug scandal thrown in and to make up for all the inexplicable talk of church, lots of s-x:

And for our number boffins:

120: the minimum estimate of the number of American servicemen who have committed suicide while on active duty in Iraq

$300 million: cost to taxpayers of hosting APEC

4000: total number of APEC delegates

1000: number of APEC delegates from the US

3500: number of NSW police on duty over APEC

22,000: Number of shifts they will work through the summit

160 million: cost of Sydney’s “ring of steel”

1: number of Chaser members dressed as Osama Bin Laden who have penetrated the APEC exclusion zone

30: number of vehicles in President Bush’s APEC motorcade

5: number of chefs travelling with the US president

250: number of US Secret Service agents in Sydney

15: number of US sniffer dog teams in Sydney

3: number of 747s in the president’s intercontinental air-cade

142: number of comments by noon on Janet Albrechtsen’s ”Howard must go” column on line.