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Browser software mediates only one of the many possible representational couplings between data and its observer. Very early in the short history of artists working with network media, there was an interest in how web browsers hide data. (Just view source at jodi.org for one well known example). During typical use, browsers hide HTML comments from the observer, yet comments are populous and interesting members of the web infome. My strategy is simply to present samples of this data. Using the web infome crawler, I collected HTML comments from a small handful of my favorite art sites. The data is represented numerically in the order collected by the crawler, (which often includes comments from outside of the starting domain.) The sites are sorted in the order of the total information retrieved from the first 500 pages spidered