Monday, March 12, 2007
Numbers du jour
Google results for "2.0": 475,000,000
O'Reilly -- What Is Web 2.0 is #1.
RSS 2.0 Specification is #2.
Luna vs. Sol
Quote du jour
From The RIAA is and always has been an organization with it's head squarely up it's own posterior, Anonymous writes,
The music industry has been one of the single most shortsighted, foolishly run, lawyer fed industries in this country, and I am a member of it, being a professional musician for the last 30 years. Perhaps if the industry wasn't so interested in the ONE demographic they think will spend money, and catered even just a little bit to the REST of the music interested world, they wouldn't be in this situation. If you are over 25, they don't give a flying rat's butt about what you want to hear, or even what you will pay for. They just don't care if you aren't in the 13-25 year old demographic. And so, when the kids who grew up with computers can outsmart the old idiots running the RIAA without even trying, I can only laugh. Too bad they insist on destroying not only everyone trying to actually get MUSIC out to people, but their audience, too.
That's in response to Internet Radio on Death Row.
Why does what go with where?
Here's a quiz. What do these have in common?
Madison and Newspapers
OpenID and Moscow
Blogging and Singapore
Podcasting and Tokyo
Wheat and Brandon (Canada)
Corn and Cambridge (UK)
Crazy and Sydney
Schwag and St. Louis
Doctor and Thames Ditton (UK)
Terror and Puebla (Mexico)
Drugs and Vancouver
Blue and Kansas City
Green and Appleton (WI)
Disaster and Delhi
Rubber and Minneapolis
Cancer and St. Albans (UK)
Trace and Nashville
Budapest and 2.0
Dresses and Philadelphia
Girls and Delhi
Boys and Thames Ditton (UK)
Women and Washington (DC)
Men and New York
Freaks and Lisbon
Birth and Charlottesville (VA)
Death and Portland (OR)
Driving and Dublin
Panties and Salt Lake City
Pants and New York
Shirts and Tampa
Sunglasses and Rancho Santa Margarita (CA)
Hippies and Santiago (Chile)
Car and Bletchley (UK)
Dog and Denver
Definition and Manila (Philipines)
Deli and Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Subduction and Victoria
Chili and Rochester
Dig and Umea (Sweden)
Jabber and Havana
Linux and Bangalore
Bling and Auckland
Basketball and Raleigh (NC)
Zero and Porto Alegre (Brazil)
Hazmat and Washington (DC)
Reboot and Austin (TX)
Train and St. Albans (UK)
Dirt and Oklahoma City
Stupidity and Ottowa
Malware and Rome
Intelligence and Washington (DC)
Illusion and Brussels
Fashion and San Diego
Slime and Chester (PA)
No prizes. When somebody comes up with the answer (and you're disqualified if you work for you-know-who), I'll put links with each one. Eventually.
[Later...] And John Gotze is the winner! He posts, Easy :-) Highest ranking city name in Google Trends, i.e., http://www.google.com/trends?q=(first word) gives the city name.
Specifically, the trend query results show the location from which the most queries come. So for "dog" it's Denver. For "panties" it's Salt Lake City and for "birth" it's Charlottesville. I'll leave figuring out why to the rest of ya'll.