At the end of June, the galleries hit five million views. Late this evening, the counter clicked over to six million views. I wasn’t at the keyboard when it happened. I missed seeing it by 188 views. So I don’t readily know who was lucky number six million. At five million it was Jason (although it was not this photo — this one does not appear in the galleries at this time):
Click on the photo above to go to Jason’s beard feature.
Check out this beard-centric charity effort to raise money for a battered women’s shelter in Charlotte, North Carolina:
Beards BeCAUSE.
NOTE: Their website, linked above, is missing in action. You can still find them on Twitter here:
Beards BeCAUSE on Twitter.
UPDATE: Their website has reappeared. Visit them at either link.
You may remember Dale from “adding more beards to the world“. Well, for wholly unknown reasons, he reportedly later went from the full beard down to a goatee and mustache. And from there, went down further to just a mustache and soul patch. The good news, however, is that Dale just emailed to proclaim that the full beard is on its way back!
Happily growing again:
Resting up a bit after doin’ even more heavy-duty growin’:
Good job, Dale! Keep it growing. Photos are courtesy of Dale and are used with permission.
For any of the rest of you out there who have shaved your beards, take a cue from Dale and start growing again!
I would like to heartily thank Joe for doing his part to support the bearded cause. Joe is the latest addition to our featured beards series:
Check out Joe’s beard feature by clicking on his photo above.
It’s beard-growing season in the northern hemisphere!
Wow. I thought that things would get back to normal in September. Boy, was I wrong.
This is just a quick note to let you know a little about what’s going on with the site lately. A series of difficult circumstances arose in the second half of July and still continue today. This has pretty much put the brakes on site development. New features were put on hold and the daily updates to the beards of the world gallery have been held up. Around mid-August, I had only a brief opportunity to resume work on the site. I am hoping now that the work on the site will slowly be coming back up to speed. Thanks for your patience.
And here is another preview photo of Brian:
These are more examples of original beard photography from beards.org. There is much more to come.
At 9:55 PM PDT tonight, the counter on the beards.org photo gallery hit five million views! Amazingly, it was on today’s date exactly one year ago that the gallery hit two million views. Tonight’s achievement of the five million mark is a symbolic milestone because of the counter reading. However, the actual count is already higher than that for a number of reasons. A server failure prior to hitting the two-million mark caused a rollback of the counter. Deleting photos from the gallery causes their view numbers to get subtracted from the count. Also, Salvatore’s videos had high numbers of views that no longer show in the count because I took them offline. I took them offline because they were consuming too much bandwidth.
So which photo was lucky number five million on the counter tonight? It was this photo of Jason:
Click on the thumbnail image to view the larger image in the gallery.
Congratulations, Jason! Happy five million!
The Firefox 3 browser came out yesterday and it slightly breaks the beards.org page layout. It moves the image that’s supposed to be in the upper right-hand corner over next to the image in the upper left-hand corner. I’ve found a way to fix the problem. But it will take me a while to get the change made to all of the affected pages. I was already behind on stuff for the site, so this extra work isn’t exactly a welcome development. Some of the pages have already been fixed. I’ll fix the rest as soon as I can plow through them. Meanwhile, if the upper-right corner image is not in its rightful place as you view the site in Firefox 3, you’ll know why.
