Category: Interesting

The cop is under investigation for some lewd comments and posts he made on his site. The offending entries are no longer there, but Google’s cached them. Link via Waxy’s Links.

Google’s branching out to search more than just Web sites. The Google Print FAQ explains that they’re experimenting with “publications” (what they mean by that, we don’t know, but it looks to be primarily books). They are, undoubtedly, using this to compete with Amazon’s full-text book search efforts, and become the one-stop-shop for searching everything.

They’ve already indexed thousands of books, including some popular ones. When you click on a book title, you’ll see information about the book: number of pages, excerpt, publication date, and its ISBN number. You even have the option to buy it at a few retailers (I could see Google add a referral code to those links to get them a bit of kick back — I know I would).

Interesting feature? Yes, indeed. With Google indexing IRC channels already, it won’t be long before they’ll be indexing everything. Now if they could just create a unified interfaces for all of their indexes.

My wife and I like to watch a good mystery on TV (we catch Hercule Poirot on A&E whenever we can), and when I’m laid up next week, I think I might dive into this: A mystery through a series of emails, instant messenger, and Web pages (as explained in A Whodunit for the Digital Age). Download the file and get more information over at TheGreatAmericanNovel.com.

Mary Willis has a name for every hooker that works her street — they include Skelawhore and Chickenhead. An interesting article about the “Breakfast Club” in Galveston, Texas — a group of prostitutes that turn tricks for the local early-birds (police usually make the busts between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m). Men claim they’re “Going to the gym” or something along those lines.

I have no idea. I’m cleaning out my links folder, leave me alone.

Another history lesson.

A nice little history lesson for you.

Keeping with the Michael Jackson theme on this site, what would Jacko look like if he had never had any plastic surgery? Leave it to modern forensics to decide.

I scored a 196. What’d you score? Link from the man down under (who scored higher than me). I’m sure Ken will score higher because he’s got a whole bunch of stupid toys.

African or European? The science behind the age-old question.