What's a Google Bomb? A Google Bomb iswhen a cabal of bloggers and website operators use their linkingpower to manipulate search engine results. It came about when Adam Mathes discoveredthat Google's results are based partly on the text used to link to asite. He noticed that searching Google for "internet rock star" leadto a page for musician BenBrown even though the words "internet rock star" did not appearon that page. Why was it thus li...
Cue the musicplease. "You're so vain, I bet you think this blog is about you.Donchew, donchew, donchew...." I had someblogging milestones in July: Two articles on the front page at the same time. (While others have accomplished it in the past, this was a first for me.) For a brief moment my blog was actually in the top 20. (After having received an artificial ...
Linda Ronstadt'sagent, Shelly Schultz, has announced that Ms. Ronstadt will becanceling all her concerts for September but insists this has nothingto do with the controversy over her nightlydedication of the song Desperado to filmmaker MichaelMoore. Instead, they claim, it is so Ms. Ronstadt can spend more timewith her kids. "Linda hascanceled her September schedule to be with her two children...
Well, NBC's Last ComicStanding is now in the finals. Last Thursday they had the"reveal show" to give the results of viewers' voting from theprevious Tuesday. The final six were cut in half. Bye-bye, Jay London(my personal pick for winner). Bye-bye, KathleenMadigan. Bye-bye, Sicilian goddess TammyPescatelli. We were giventhree votes. While Jay London may have been my overall pick (he'sjust s...
Well, NBC's Last ComicStanding is now in the finals. Last Thursday they had the"reveal show" to give the results of viewers' voting from theprevious Tuesday. The final six were cut in half. Bye-bye, Jay London(my personal pick for winner). Bye-bye, KathleenMadigan. Bye-bye, Sicilian goddess TammyPescatelli. We were giventhree votes. While Jay London may have been my overall pick (he'sjust s...
The roof-mountedcooler wailed with an ear splitting intensity that would shame abanshee. (Or so I imagined, not having ever heard an actual banshee.I did date a girl once who was clearly at least half banshee,but that doesn't count.) Rather than callthe management company and ask them to do something about it, Idecided to see if I could fix it myself. Why should a little thinglike not owning a l...
The new commercialfor M. NightShyamalan 's film "TheVillage" has a massive lie in it. It says, literally," Ebertand Roeper call it one of the year's best movies." The onlyproblem with that is Roger Ebert hated " The Village." Don't take my word, clickhere and listen for yourself. The one who thought it "was one thebest movies of the year" was Roeper, and Roeper alone. When they said"Ebert and Roeper call it..." they were referring to ...
I need to warn youabout using a "refer a friend" service called refer-a-page.com .While their "privacypolicy" (excuse me while I laugh till I hyperventilate) states... "We do NOT collect email addresses of either the sender or the recipients of any referral message." ...you might wantto have a lookat this page. That's right -- 34+ Megs of harvested emailaddresses (including sev...
Last week Sandra Bullock celebrated her 40th birthday. (Do you really "celebrate" turning 40?I mean, there are still fingernail marks in the floor from my beingdragged into 30. -- Yeah, I know, I have to get in front of the wavewith my blogs; I'm always playing catch-up.) Here are my thoughts onthe best, worst, and most watchable Sandra Bullock movies. Sandra Bullock's Best Movie Okay, nopussy-f...
unbowed (ùn-boud) adjective 1. Not bowed; unbent. 2. Not subdued; unyielding: "My head is bloody but unbowed" (W.E. Henley) In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. W. E. Henley Poetmom has ...
This looked to bea fairly lame summer movie season for me. My must sees were prettymuch Spiderman 2 and Alien vs. Predator . (I didn't knowabout Exorcist IV till the commercials started playingrecently.) I've beenexcitedly looking forward to Alien vs. Predator. Then tonightI saw a commercial for it and caught something I hadn't heard before.It is PG-13. My reaction was, "It's PG-13?! OMG It...
So I'm sittinghere, waiting for something good to pop up on the sidebar. A newarticle. A new comment on a thread I am following. Anything. It's times likethis I wonder why I was distressed to (temporarily) be officiallythe biggest JU addict . (I'm still No. 2.) Clearly it was not aninaccurate label. So I'm sittinghere clicking reload, checking my em...
"Hello? Homeland Security ? Good I want to report terroristthreats. I was reading this book and the guy in it said... no it wasa novel.... What do you mean? You mean you don't care that this guysaid...? What is wrong with you people? So if he phoned in a bombthreat.... Yeah! If the guy in the novel phoned in a bomb threat...!So that's okay with you? "Well there's a very real author behind it, isn't there? He is inciting violence! Listen, anytime anyone says something likethis people of de...
"Hello? Homeland Security ? Good I want to report terroristthreats. I was reading this book and the guy in it said... no it wasa novel.... What do you mean? You mean you don't care that this guysaid...? What is wrong with you people? So if he phoned in a bombthreat.... Yeah! If the guy in the novel phoned in a bomb threat...!So that's okay with you? "Well there's a very real author behind it, isn't there? He is inciting violence! Listen, anytime anyone says something likethis people of de...
My apologies ifsomeone on JU has already pointed this out. There's aShockwave political cartoon that's taking the 'Net by storm. It hasJohn Kerry and George W. Bush dancing around and singing a veryfractured version of "This Land Is Your Land." Highlights include thecameos by Howard Dean and Bill Clinton. (Okay, the Clinton bitfinally got me to burst out laughing.) &n...