Jonathan Peterson passes along this link reluctantly, fearing he’s feeding my unhealthy obsession with Michael Jackson’s face. Yes, yes he is.

17 Comments »

Steve MacLaughlin is taking the rest of the month off and recommends we do the same.

Be the first to comment »

Gary Turner runs a screen capture of an unfortunate line break in a message from Microsoft, thus giving me an excuse to run the following pointless, unjustified ridicule: click here to open the screen capture in a new window.

The fact that Pinnacle Studio version 7 is still so buggy that it can’t compile the videos that you edit is my only excuse for engaging in such pettiness. Yeah, sure.

1 Comment »

Whatever you dream, you can be … in your dreams.

Thought while raking leaves: If you place a single leaf in a paper leaf bag, the bag is trash, not a leaf bag. At least that’s what the garbage man told me.

*The extra E is your guarantee of profundity

1 Comment »

Steven Johnson’s excellent new blog (he’s the author of Emergence, a book I enjoyed and learned a lot from) has proposed a new Google trick that Rael Dornfest quickly instantiated. You take the number of Google hits on a term, and the number of hits on a second term within that results set, and divide. The result is your “googleshare.” To use Steve’s example, there are 1,450,000 hits on “emergence” and 5,190 of those mention “Steven Johnson,” giving him a .3% googleshare of the term “emergence.”

You can run your own experiments using Rael’s software. (You will first have to get a Google API key, a painless process.) Some top-of-the-head results:

Bush has a 7.93% share of “idiot” and 8.89% share of “moron”

Michael Jackson has a 1.24% googleshare of “freak”

Microsoft has about 3.5% share of “satan,” handily beating Saddam Hussein’s 0.72% share and Osama Bin Laden’s 0.84% share.

Cluetrain has a 0.4% share of “hippy-dippy” and an astonishing 23.19% share of “worst book” (with the search term in quotes), while “small pieces loosely joined” (in quotes) has an astronomical 102.35% share of “worst book”!

Now that’s an achievement worth noting!

Be the first to comment »

I was in the video store today and did a doubletake. I mistook the photo of Sandra Bullock on the cover of Murder by Numbers for, well, take a look:

I did just a little editing of the photo on the right, trying to match color/tint – frankly, I had to darken him – and then, what the heck, I cloned in Sandra’s hair (left) and cloth thingy (right).

Be the first to comment »

While looking for phone cards to call from Greece to the US (my brother-in-law is about to leave for Athens on a business trip), I came upon this page.

I’m reading along, not getting a good feeling about the reliability of this business — is Steve going to be there for me if I have trouble with the card? — when I get to the middle of the page. Do a search on the page for “OH GOD” to see what I mean. Disturbing.

6 Comments »

AKMA reports that when he asks “Who is AKMA?” of the Magic 8-Ball known as GooglePeople, the top reply is “David Weinberger.” I’m flattered. On the other hand, if you ask the site “Who is the author of the best book on the Internet?”, the answer is Margaret Levine Young who wrote “Internet for Dummies.” My book doesn’t even show up. And I’m pretty sure “The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold isn’t really about the Internet at all.

Be the first to comment »