Yeah, I noticed the flip-book effect as well. It helps bring out the order in something that seems random to the average person not familiar with moon cycles. If our calendar weren't so screwed up, and were based on moon cycles instead, perhaps more people would have caught onto this correlation.
I'm reading Mark Hedsel's book "The Zelator" at the moment and keep coming across stuff that we've discussed here. For example, there were several pages devoted to the moon and its effects upon mankind. The basic gist is that asleep people dance like puppets to the tune of the moon. I guess so.
Well, I'm pulling together various info and will probably turn this moon cycle material into a stand-alone article on my site. It's ancient knowledge, but it never meant much to me until I learned about it the hard way.
Anyway, here are the new and improved moon charts (of which I already posted one above):
vertical chart:
http://www.montalk.net/moon2004.jpg
http://www.montalk.net/moon2005.jpg
horizontal chart (cut and pasted together from the vertical chart):
http://www.montalk.net/moon2004_horizontal.jpg
http://www.montalk.net/moon2005_horizontal.jpg
To show an example of how this chart correllates with forum activity, you'll notice in December 2004 a peak overlap between perigee and new moon happening on December 12th. Perigee = moon closest to earth, thus the strongest influence. That's the day the wrestling thread crashed through the bottom and a couple members were removed from NR. Also, mercury going into retrograde several days before didn't help things.
The next peak period between December 26th and 29th will be a test to see if moon apogee, farthest away from earth, weakens or strengthens the full moon influence. Like Atlantis said, the moon isn't everything, but nevertheless it seems significant enough.
Acquiring fringe knowledge is like digging for diamonds in a mine field.