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Had a busy weekend this week. Went to Pleasure Island on Friday, then SeaWorld
Saturday, played some DDR 4th and 5th Mix Saturday evening at Orlando, and then
went bowling late Saturday/early Sunday. Keeps me almost as busy as
college.
The much discussed Time Person of the Year was revealed today as New York Mayor
Rudy Giuliani. Most of the controversy centered on the possibility of naming
Osama bin
Laden as Person of the Year, since despite what the general public believes,
it is not a civic award, but a designation of the person who had the greatest
influence that particular year. And few could argue that bin Laden did not have
a very big influence. However most people think that it has to go to a "good"
person, hence threats of cancelled subscriptions.
Google has a very interesting end of the year
"special" on search
terms for events throughout the year. The parallels between news events and
search terms is amazing. One thing that suprised me though was the huge increase
in searchs for "cnn" after the 9-11 attacks. Do people not relieze that typing
in cnn.com takes them to CNN? Do they really have to go to a search engine to
find the homepage for CNN? Apparently so.
A new type of squid has been reported, that lives about 3 miles below the surface of the
ocean. What's unique about this one though is that it has 10 spidery long
appendages that are 20 feet long. Who knows what else is under the sea as
well.
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