Guess the logo
Try it. I hate that I did better than average. I would like to be in the 5th percentile on this kind of thing.
Moscow subway pictures
You think the El is a freak show? You haven’t seen the Moscow subway! (Well, neither have I, in person anyway.)
Check out these Moscow subway pictures. A sample:
See more. (via CTA Tattler)
Google and porn
First off, most of the links in this entry are NSFW. It may also be NSFM. (Not Safe For Mom — she reads my blog. Hi Mom!)
There’s some interesting buzz on the net about Google and porn. Graywolf, SEOblackhat, and others have noted that Google has scrubbed its organic search results–those are the nonpaid ones–of adult sites when the query is obviously porn-related. When it’s not so clear — e.g. Pussy Galore — the adult sites remain. And with this “long tail” of maybe-it’s-obscene-maybe-not queries, search traffic to adult sites might actually be stable.
Which kind of makes you wonder: what’s the point?
And it kind of makes you wonder: why is there such a big difference between the organic and paid results for the term “fucking?” That’s a big fucking difference! (Ha ha ha soo witty)
Wait. You don’t think Google would de-porn its results while still selling AdWords to pornographers, would you?!?!
(By the way, I can’t replicate these results, as the update seems not to have made it to “my” Google yet. Google releases updates in stages to their various index servers.)
CTA Christmas train and Christmas bus
Credit (and more pics): Looper
Credit (and more pics): missjasmine
Oops, I mean “holiday train” and “holiday bus.” Predictably, people are whining in the comments at CTA Tattler. I’ve got a nice HOLIDAY gift for you folks: a refrigerator-sized box of Go Fuck Yourself. It’s free.
Wouldn’t want the city of Chicago to endorse a Christian religion. I mean, nativity scenes are okay, but not Christmas movies (more whiny fuckwads there).
Silverware is expensive
I have crappy silverware. I’m gonna be upfront about that. I’m not hiding anything. Look man, I got cheap forks.
I was thinking about asking for some new silverware for Christmas. “That’s a good gift for my mom or sister to get me,” I thought. Nice and practical.
Then, I saw a blog post about fashionable flatware. “Cool, I thought. Maybe they have some good recommendations!”
Then I checked out the post.
Then I viewed some of the recommended flatware. One of them is below:
That shit is $225. Per setting. $225 for 5 pieces of silverware. $45 per piece. $45 for a spoon. $225 per setting. $900 for a family of four. $900 for a family of four. $45 for a spoon.
Don’t get me silverware for Christmas, Mom. I’m fine with this crap from IKEA and Target.
Maybe “community” does matter
As a rule, I hate the word “community.” It’s has the double sin of being both a buzzword and a favorite term of politically correct whiners. But a post from Steve Yelvington makes me thinking that maybe there’s something to this “community” crap.
Yelvington documents the exponential growth vs water treading of:
- MySpace vs. Geocities
- Photobucket vs. Kodak Gallery
- Wikipedia vs. Encarta
And lest you think, for example, that MySpace offers superior functionality, get your head on straight. MySpace is utter piece of crap, unreliable, difficult to customize, and flat-out annoying. And incredibly popular.
To the above list, I’d add:
- Official sports sites (e.g. ChicagoBulls.com) vs. sports blogs (e.g. Deadspin)
- Urban Dictionary vs. Dictionary.com
- Newspaper op-ed sections vs. Huffington Post (putting aside the fact that I hate HuffPo)
Note that the second category of sites might still trail the first in total traffic, but in terms of growth, the difference is significant.
Things I am sick and goddamn tired of
- Those Jessica Simpson DirecTV commercials. Her fake southern accent is abominable.
- The MasterCard “priceless” commercials. God, I was sick of them 5 years ago. And to think that they protect them like the secret ingredient of Coke. Ugh!
- The word “K-Fed.” Let. It. Die.
- Blog authors who do not allow comments and have no contact information. Look, that’s not a blog. A blog has to be at least minimally interactive. I wanted to tell this guy that he’s all wrong about this, but how the hell am I supposed to do that? I even whois‘d him to no avail. The only way he’ll get the memo is through referer logs.
- And a lot of other things I can’t think of at the moment.
Related: 50 things that are completely played out (complete with dress-down from Adam Curry, hooray!)