History of the World Wide Web, Appendix G

"Google does not censor results for any search term. The order and content of our results are completely automated; we do not manipulate our search results by hand. We believe strongly in allowing the democracy of the web to determine the inclusion and ranking of sites in our search results."

Well. No more.

-Entry at Google Blogoscoped.

Hi, I'm a Dinosaur. I lived in the Garden of Eden

"creationists have been buying roadside dinosaur parks around the country and turning them into anti-evolution museums."

- article at Reason Online.

Current Administration Policy

They're allowed to see what you're doing, but you're not allowed to see what they're doing.

The Google Robot FAQ: (Last update: November 1st, 2030)

Q. A Google Robot was unwilling to help me find my lost car keys. Why?

A. As trying to locate your keys may involve a violation of your privacy, only subscribers of the My Public Life™ program may use this feature.

Nixtamalize This

Nixtamalization on Wikipedia.

Save 5% of the Planet. Pump some BioWillie

Can't wait to get on the road again? Get yourself some of Willie Nelson's Biodiesel (made from Diesel fuel with a splash of veggie oil grown by America's struggling family-agribusinesses) and go places you've never been and see things you may never see again.

The Corporation of Very Little Brain

"Guess who's coming for honey? As part of a barrel-full of Winnie the Pooh anniversary events, Disney is working on a new animated series that will replace Christopher Robin with a 6-year-old girl.

Details are sketchy on the as-yet-nameless new arrival, who will make her debut in the 2007 computer-generated series My Friends Tigger and Pooh. Disney execs say the idea is to bring an older audience to an iconic franchise born when British author A.A. Milne began musing about the imaginary world of his son, Christopher Robin.


The last thing we want to be is the ones who brought the franchise down."

- link to USA Today article

Six Degrees of Wikipedia

How many wikilinks does it take to connect Kevin Bacon to Bacon? Three.

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originally uploaded by whileseated.

No Flash Corner

whileseated's continuing series of candid portraits taking in reflected sunlight on the streets of San Francisco are amazing. This girl looks a lot like my friend Alice. Alice, this isn't really you is it?

Cool Faces / Cold Shoulders

"Yet rather than address serious issues like housing, schools, transport, jobs and security, mayors and policy gurus from Berlin and London to Sydney and San Francisco have adopted what can be best be described as the 'cool city strategy.' If you can somehow make your city the rage of the hipster set, they insist, all will be well."

- Joel Kotkin. Uncool Cities. Prospect Magazine. Issue 115. October 2005. (PDF)