Over the course of the past 24 or 48 hours, an excellent ReasonTV video, "How Sex Offender Registries Fail Us," vaulted to the top of our "Most Popular Stories" tote board, which is generally automatically based on site traffic.

The video, which was released back on March 14, 2012, was mentioned at Reddit.com's "Today I Learned" page, where readers submit curious facts that they just stumbled across. Here's the entry, posted by user etihw2 and proud recipient of over 1,330 up votes by fellow Reddit users:

Among other recent entries to TIL:

If you're not familiar with Reddit, you ought to be (especially, maybe, its Libertarian page). It's a great site where readers post links to content on every topic conceivable and then vote things up or down based on their reactions. It's long been a major traffic source for Reason.com and ReasonTV but far more important, it's one of the places that makes teh internet the glorious series of tubes that it is truly is—a haven of wide-ranging and user-generated delights, marvels, and treasures, all pulled together in a series of easy-to-use-and-sort pages. It's been around since 2005; read more about it another of the web's defining institutions, Wikipedia.

Here's the vid by the way, along with the original text: