How Not To Blog ?

They call this personalizing the web? I don't think so.

Say goodbye to bookmarks: Google has rolled out a seriously cool search history feature that automatically keeps track of all of your web searches and every page that you view from search results.

Why the fuck would I want to see ALL of my searches? Bookmarking is a way to save information regarding URLs that I want to reference again. Most URLs that I visit I wouldn't want to reference again in the future. If for some reason I want to find it again, I'll simply perform another search, rather than digging through tens of thousands of previous searches.

This is just another one of Google's clever marketing ploys. They want you to store all of your messages on GMail, and all of your searches on Google. They've proven before they don't give a shit about privacy or much about business ethics. They're Google, dammit. They can do what they want because people let them. Nevermind just trying to lock-in customers. A massive database containing people's lifetime email and search history is a marketing company's wet dream.

Am I the only one who sees something wrong with Google logging all of my queries and search results? Nevermind that they're obviously trying to retain market share as Google-killing services like delicious, Furl, RSS, etc., are adopted more widely.

Behind the Vatican curtain of secrecy lurked Pope Sidious (AKA Darth Benedict), a mysterious Inquisition Lord and puppet-master of the tumultuous events that brought an end to the Catholic Church.

The Inquisition had been extinct for a millennium, yet somehow, Pope Sidious, survived. In the waning years of the Catholic Church, the Inquisition returned, but Sidious was content to hide in the shadows. On the eve of his election as pope, Sidious delivered a sermon in which he reaffirmed his position that all religions outside of Roman Catholicism are defective and irrelevant.

[Also see, "Pope Sidious (AKA Darth Benedict). The Empire Rises Again"]

An economist explains your pathetic self to you.

You're either too young, gay or lesbian, in a coma, or too pathetic for anyone to want. If you were worth having, you'd have already been had by now.

The brother of Pope Benedict XVI Georg Ratzinger, 81, said he was "very concerned" and "shocked" upon hearing that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had been elected as head of the Roman Catholic Church because of his age and frail health. [Article]

Bitch will be dead soon, and they'll have to start the process all over again. If we listen to Malachy's prophecies of the popes, the next pope will signal the end of the Roman Catholic church.

The new pope makes an interesting comment regarding his longevity:

When Ratzinger told cardinals in the conclave why he wanted to take on the name Benedict XVI, "one of the things he alluded to was the fact that Benedict XV, the last pope to have that name, had one of the shortest pontificates of the 20th century,"

This is long overdue.

NBC Universal Television Group President Jeff Zucker said entering the generally opinionated world of blogs might be one way television networks could keep their grip on viewers who increasingly use the Internet for news.

"Over the next two years, network news is going to go through a lot more changes," Zucker said at a Yahoo conference on high-speed Internet use. "This is one of the biggest issues facing traditional network news divisions."

What fucking idiots! Risk passengers' lives to appear on a damn television show.

"The captain acted completely appropriately, with his No. 1 interest being the safety of the passengers and crew. We were not rushing anywhere."

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York judge issued an arrest warrant on Monday for "American Pie" movie actress Natasha Lyonne, who failed to appear for a court hearing on charges stemming from a rampage during which she was heard threatening to molest a neighbor's dog.

Lyonne, 26, is charged with criminal mischief, harassment and trespass after an unexplained fit of rage last December when authorities said she banged on the door of her neighbor, stormed into the apartment and ripped a mirror from the wall.

Police called to the scene said Lyonne told the neighbor, "I'm going to sexually molest your dog."

Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Abraham Clott issued the arrest warrant after calling her case three times on Monday. Prosecutors said Lyonne showed up in court one hour late, stayed 30 minutes, and left.

It is not the first time Lyonne has been in trouble. In 2001, she lost control of her car while driving drunk, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to six months probation.

Lyonne has appeared in more than 30 films including "Blade: Trinity," "American Pie" and "Party Monster."

[via Reuters]

So here I am staring at the center green dot when all of a sudden I go into a type of trance. I realize that this is the same way I feel when I drift off into sleep, sometimes catching myself in the altered state of mind between waking and sleeping.

My analogy would be that the 3 yellow dots are the 3 dimensions of physical experience. The center green dot is the sub-conscious. By focusing on the dream experience (such as one does when drifting off into sleep), for example, the 3 dimensions become 'invisible'.

(Alternately, by staring at either of the 3 yellow dots the green dot looks more like a bright star than just a green dot.)