This is why tossing out the crazy ideas is encouraged in troubleshooting meetings. And thanks MM, it will make me grin every time I see that slug.
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Laura - Apr 16, 2004 1:57:18 pm PDT #146 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
DCJensen - Apr 16, 2004 10:01:16 pm PDT #147 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
This is why tossing out the crazy ideas is encouraged in troubleshooting meetings.
I hear tell a city council meeting got so worked up about snowbound fire plugs once that a member stood up and proposed that nearby fire plugs should be cleared two weeks before any fire.
It was voted on immediately and passed.
Make of that what you will.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 17, 2004 2:24:03 am PDT #148 of 10001
What is even happening?
Daniel, I didn't know there was a city outside Sang Sacre, run by Buffistas!
DXMachina - Apr 17, 2004 3:01:11 am PDT #149 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Cindy, I think you missed the part about it being voted on immediately...
RobertH - Apr 17, 2004 11:53:53 am PDT #150 of 10001
Disaffected college student
COMM #5967, she is vaguely spoilery.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 18, 2004 3:43:28 am PDT #151 of 10001
What is even happening?
back to the off-topic topic for a moment...
It is. The antisemitic site, jewwatch dot com, has been the highest rank for about 3 years. Someone finally made this known publicly about a month ago, and they are now trying to push the Wikipedia page for Jew higher by putting a link to it under the word Jew on as many web pages as possible.
The wiki page is number one, right now. That 'watch' page is now down to number 2, now.
Yesterday, at the top of the page, above the results, there were news hits, about the popularity of that 'watch' site. Today, above the results, Google has a link with the following text:
Offensive Search Results www.google.com/explanation We're disturbed about these results as well. Please read our note here.
It's good to see them publically acknowledge the phenom, and explain what they can. Google notes that people looking for information on things Jewish tend to use search terms such as Judaism, Jewish, etc., where more racist motivated searches tend to use the word Jew. They link two informative sites on Jewish people/Judaism, and also the ADL, JewishInternetAssociation.org, and Google's results for a search on anti-semitism.
t /off-topic topic
Laura - Apr 18, 2004 4:34:36 am PDT #152 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
It may be off topic for our Bureaucracy, but Google rocks!
Jon B. - Apr 18, 2004 6:19:25 am PDT #153 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
That "explanation" link has been up above the results for some time, but yeah, they rock.
Wolfram - Apr 18, 2004 6:38:55 am PDT #154 of 10001
Visilurking
The wiki page is number one, right now.
Woohoo!
Topic!Cindy - Apr 18, 2004 9:08:07 am PDT #155 of 10001
What is even happening?
That "explanation" link has been up above the results for some time, but yeah, they rock.
Yesterday, I didn't see it at the top of the search results page (it may have been there, I just didn't see it). They had the usual news-y type links above the main hits.
Woohoo!
Yepper. I wish I had an important web page to link it.