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Uber-geek Roland Piquepaille, points to new virtual reality technology (100 million pixels worth) being deployed at Iowa State University. My question is, can I hook up one of those new location-sensitive Nintendo Wii joysticks to it?
See also the Holodeck from Star Trek.
Yes, it had to be querried into the new Trends service: sex, porn and paris hilton. Interestingly enough, the majority of these searches come from countries outside the West; namely Egypt, India and Turkey. And for whatever reason, users in Seattle really like searching for porn.
Other notable querries include the on going Salma vs Friedrich Hayek popularity contest (one is an uber-mamacita, the other is a dead Nobel-winning economist). Apparently Friedrich isn’t a character people lookup often (nor is Mises or Rothbard) – Milton Friedman wins versus the late John Galbraith.
Wikipedia destroys querries for web 2.0 and AJAX.
And Bob Dole is the spokesman for the consistent winner the ultimate war of the spam: texas hold em, phentermine, vioxx, viagra.
Lasly, in an IM, Sean Lynch pointed out that it looks as if the developers are using the same graph tool from Google Finance — good facsimile.
See also Google’s own scripted zeitgeist.
Remember those really really godawful commercials you watched as a kid? Thanks to the wonders of the internets, you can see all of them. Retrojunk.com does not just serve ads, but also public services announcements, tv shows and much much more!
Viva Sargent Slaughter and Doogie Howser!
If you’ve seen Forrest Gump, you’ll like this insanity.
See also Matrix Pong.
