Entries Categorized as 'Commentary'

Gratuitous Error Screenshot of Google Chrome not Working on a Google Web Site

Date September 4, 2008

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So I’m building a web site for my employer and integrating Google Site Search for business. In an attempt to kill two birds with one stone, I open Google Chrome (insert angelic singing here) and do some test browsing while [...]

Happy Labor Day

Date September 1, 2008


“Chinese,” “Terrorism” and Google Ad(non)Sense

Date August 22, 2008

Recently, my buddy Dan at dcrBlogs posted about Elvis and the sometimes out-of-context ads placed by Google. It’s funny because I’ve had two instances in the same week where Google’s intellect was unmatched by my powerful vocabulary and engaging style of writing.
Or was it?
In the first case, you can see that Google somehow placed ads [...]

Carl Spackler’s Dream Come True

Date August 13, 2008

It’s a known fact that movies generate concepts that are often turned into reality. However, this is something I never thought I’d see.
Meet the Varmit Getter.
This neat little device does what every testosterone-fueled teenage boy loves to do, and that’s blow things up. The Varmit Getter takes the poison and inhumanity out of killing gophers, [...]

Terrorism is Fun, but the Cold War was Better

Date August 12, 2008

As a follow-up to yesterday’s “Duck and Cover” post, I’m going to visit a time when things were easier to understand and the state of emergency was based on the DEFCON scale (with DEFCON 1 being the point where you bend over and…well, you know). Hollywood thrived on the fears of nuclear attack and unpredictable [...]