Search and Destroy

It should be beyond dispute by now that Glenn Beck's batshit crazy shtick is just that -- shtick. But I'm really starting to think that he's actually trying to make his audience of paranoid pensioners terrified of absolutely everything.

The Huffington Post: Glenn Beck Goes After Google/2.17.11

(Update: Cesca makes a really good point -- one that I'd initially considered but was naive enough to quickly dismiss as over-the-top -- that by demonizing Google, Beck is basically telling his minions that any information gleaned from it that debunks his ridiculous conspiracy theory matrix should be questioned. In other words, it can be translated into this cliché: "Don't you get it? You can't trust Google. They're in on the conspiracy!")

Quote of the Day

"Student masterpieces will be judged by Google staff and three celebrity judges: actress Whoopi Goldberg, ice shaking champ Evan Lysacek, and 'Garfield' creator Jim Davis."

-- From a piece in the Christian Science Monitor today on Google's annual "Doodle 4 Google" competition

Well, kids, I think it's safe to say that the motif they're going for this year is surrealism.

Oh, and I don't know what the hell an "ice shaking" champ is, but I'm pretty sure I'm one.

Crap Shoot

If you were one of those people who enjoyed it when the auto-complete algorithm at Google search first started finishing the sentence "I am" with "Extremely Terrified of Chinese People" a few months back -- as in, type in "I am" and the first suggested search you get is "I am Extremely Terrified of Chinese People" -- you're gonna love this.

The folks over at Failblog have apparently gotten their readers to Google bomb the search engine with a new specific phrase, so now whenever you type in the words "Why won't," the very first auto-completed sentence (and potential search) that pops up is "Why Won't My Parakeet Eat My Diarrhea?"

This is pretty entertaining. You know what's even more entertaining, though? The fact that in screen grab above, it sort of looks like the Google logo shows a little girl saluting a giant brown penis.