More and more it looks like the topic should be renamed "spider crawls" instead of "wasted clicks" - 38M goes to the Yahoo! Slurp. In fact, it was all bots and lurkers or people not logged in or whatever from hits 37,999,948 (StingArmy) to 38,000,031 (flairforthegold13) - that's about a ten minute span. Must have been the lateness of the evening/earliness of the morning!
Recent millions (and how long it took to get there): 38M 01 Dec 2006 01:53:32 (59:16:31:16) 37M 02 Oct 2006 10:24:16 (61:00:40:40) 36M 02 Aug 2006 09:43:36 (49:06:15:31) 35M 14 Jun 2006 03:28:05 (43:23:04:53) 34M 01 May 2006 04:23:12 (43:09:17:56) 33M 18 Mar 2006 19:05:16 (47:12:16:16) 32M 30 Jan 2006 07:21:32 (51:22:13:04) 31M 09 Dec 2005 09:08:28 (45:18:18:44) 30M 24 Oct 2005 15:49:44 (47:05:37:56) 29M 07 Sep 2005 10:11:48 (47:12:56:27) 28M 21 Jul 2005 21:15:21 (45:10:24:19)