Google Reader - Happy Accident

Lots and lots of feeds in my Google Reader - and for the past month or so, I've been slow in keeping up with them.  Humor gets read all the time, and most of the Beading and Apple blogs as well, but I've fallen behind on Law, News and Politics, General and Books and Authors - to the point were a 1000+ count has been the usual header.  I rountinely mark as read old stuff in the high-volume blogs like Lifehacker and Boing Boing, but that's not been enough to keep the count down.  Since I've returned from vacation, the Reader's been stuffed like this:

But I just went to add a new subscription to the PMC blog, and I accidently hit "Mark All Read."  My Reader now looks like this:

Scary, but a bit refreshing.