Monday, September 19, 2005

misindex

Some might be familiar with the googlebombing effort to associate the keyword "failure" (or more appropriately "miserable failure", but we're only looking at "failure" today) with the POTUS, as well as the countereffort to associate it with Michael Moore. But it appears as though google has some inconsistencies in their index (possibly because the latest index have not been deployed to all machines), as shown in the two screen captures below.




This does bring up the next concern, that being, does google have session stickiness? In other words, as I enter a search term, and then click through the next arrows to get to page 2, 3, ... n of the search results, is it the results from the same machine? If not, we can see more inconsistencies between the result pages. Of course, this probably isn't a serious usability problem, but may bring up issues with their deployment system should they move on to bigger and more operationally aware projects.

Yaaarrrrrr.

Thursday, September 15, 2005

The Funnies

In the wake of the hurricane, and with the confirmation hearings of John Roberts, a reporter asked the following to president Bush's press secretary Scott McClellan...

Reporter: What is president Bush's opinion on Roe vs. Wade?

McClellan: Who cares how people get out of New Orleans?

The preceding was a joke.

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Demographics

A cool webapp that uses google maps in conjunction with the 2000 census data to give you demographics reports.

In Seattle, Capitol Hill

Average Income: $83,292
Median Housing Value: $400,915

Area just northwest of Laguna Beach:

Average Income: $333,795
Median Housing Value: $1,000,000 (I think 1 million is just a placeholder for >= 1 million)

Sunday, September 11, 2005

newsweek

A fairly comprehensive look at the federal, state, and local bungling of the handling of Katrina.

Thursday, September 08, 2005

no tent city

Flickr set of refugees in the Astrodome.

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Not much happening

Went to a Seahawks pre-season game on Friday, tossed around a ball at a random park on Saturday, saw the Constant Gardener after playing some games at an arcade (I think it'd be better as a rental than on the big screen), sat on my couch all day Sunday, planned a BBQ on Monday, back to work on Tuesday, watching a lot of L Word.

The new season of the OC starts tomorrow, time to upgrade my TV.