Do what the interweb tells you to

So I'm reading Larry O'Brien's blog and he tells me (well, not me personally, but you know what I mean) to not only click on a link, but also to link to it in my own blog. The destination page says the same, plus:

Ask your readers to do the same. Beg them. Relate sob stories about poor graduate students in desperate circumstances. Imply I'm one of them. (Do whatever you have to. If that fails, try whatever it takes.)

...who am I to resist orders from the internet and random blogs?