My ramblings
“The “autofill” feature of the Google search box was designed as a timesaver, but the suggested searches can also be entertaining. Writing in Slate, Michael Agger compared the autofill of “less intelligent” and “more intelligent” queries, an exercise that has previously been conducted at Digg. The image above is a screencap of two Google searches conducted tonight using less- and more sophisticated search terms. A corollary question would be “What searches are most commonly conducted at Neatorama?” The Lijit search engine doesn’t have an autofill feature, but it does offer a list of the most popular recent searches at Neatorama, in descending order of frequency: “world’s smallest,” mystery sale, halloween, what is it, disney, halloween costume, pumpkin, shop, stories, tattoo, cat, facebook, halloween costumes, pear, game, costume, movie trivia, photography, new species, zombie, bacon, lego, elena desserich, google, anvil cake, costumes, national day, notes left behind, origami, national geographic, videosift, wedding, what is it? game, 6 year old, albert einstein, brain, christmas, chum, hitler, logo, one take, pig, sex, animals, art, batman, brain shot, comic, einstein, shark. Someone else may want to tackle the sociological implications of that list; I’m not going to touch it.”
“Because we have a crisis in the US that is a disaster in the making. We are cultivating an elite group of well heeled educated young people. We are cultivating a large group of undereducated minorities. We are developing a ruling class and a class waiting to be ruled. Yes, this has been going on for a long time but look at where it is happening — in the largest cities in the US — NYC, St. Louis, Dallas…I know these for sure. I would imagine that the same is true for Chicago, LA, Houston and oh so many more.”
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Punishment leads man to career in teaching?
This is too funny. I wish I had said it, but I didn’t. He just granted me permission to use his name, so I can tell you it was @JonBecker.
He tweeted out a message about a man who was found guilty of an Internet-based crime and who was then ordered to stay OFF the Internet. JB’s comment: “Guess he’ll have to become a teacher.” ROFL!!
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