It has to do with the same kind of search term abuse that spammers have used to make life complicated on search engines. Thanks to Dave Taylor for getting to the bottom of it and posting an explanation.
It starts out with a spam blog entry (like the nurses one) that hasn't yet been found and eliminated by Technorati (how long can it take them to find that one?) Then it takes a feed that is based on a search pattern for one's name, which a lot of people use services like Technorati and Newsgator for. If that blog entry has the right content in it, the feed processor will automagically include the undesirable content in the feed.
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Taylor used some low-level tools to examine the raw content of the Nude Nurses feed, and indeed found both "Terry" and "Heaton" in it. Apparently these were for Terry Farrell from "Deep Space Nine" and Patricia Heaton from "Everyone Loves Raymond." This is done in order to get false hits on searches for those terms, but Technorati mixed and matched to generate a hit on Terry Heaton. (And now this article will get hits for all those names too!)
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