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This is what greeted me when I checked Google Maps today. They’ve gone and made it all 8-bit RPG. The effect is increased by the fact that the urban planners seem to have taken the place names out of an AD&D supplement. Tetherwind? Eastvale? Really?

This is what greeted me when I checked Google Maps today. They’ve gone and made it all 8-bit RPG.

The effect is increased by the fact that the urban planners seem to have taken the place names out of an AD&D supplement. Tetherwind? Eastvale? Really?

Two days ago, I decided to Google “cocaine-addled paedophile” and was pleasantly surprised that the top three hits were all my page, which were about the long and hilarious war between myself and Mike Perkins. Initially reluctant to present himself to the authorities due in part to his paedophile past, and a cocaine habit which, in the words of a source close to Mike Perkins, “made David Bowie look like a Christian”, eventually his legal counsel convinced him that offering testimony was preferable to the feds kicking his door down and dragging him away in a sack. - Mike Perkins, Chapter 3: The 9/11 Controversy I shouldn’t get too much credit for repeatedly beating an unarmed opponent into the ground, but he just kept coming back for more, like an off-centre child’s toy. If I see a chance to go for the kill with logic and comedy, I’ll fucking do it. I don’t care. I seem to have a talent for revealing an asshole’s true nature. For a number of friends (you know who you are), I have shown someone they thought was a trusted friend for what he really is (and so far it’s always a guy). Sometimes they only find out years afterwards, but they always find out. Anyway, if you have some time to spare, and you like a laugh, you could do worse than Mike Perkins.

Two days ago, I decided to Google “cocaine-addled paedophile” and was pleasantly surprised that the top three hits were all my page, which were about the long and hilarious war between myself and Mike Perkins.

Initially reluctant to present himself to the authorities due in part to his paedophile past, and a cocaine habit which, in the words of a source close to Mike Perkins, “made David Bowie look like a Christian”, eventually his legal counsel convinced him that offering testimony was preferable to the feds kicking his door down and dragging him away in a sack.

- Mike Perkins, Chapter 3: The 9/11 Controversy

I shouldn’t get too much credit for repeatedly beating an unarmed opponent into the ground, but he just kept coming back for more, like an off-centre child’s toy. If I see a chance to go for the kill with logic and comedy, I’ll fucking do it. I don’t care.

I seem to have a talent for revealing an asshole’s true nature. For a number of friends (you know who you are), I have shown someone they thought was a trusted friend for what he really is (and so far it’s always a guy). Sometimes they only find out years afterwards, but they always find out.

Anyway, if you have some time to spare, and you like a laugh, you could do worse than Mike Perkins.

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While Intel gets dozens of responses to its posts on Google+ Ms. Walter said the company has nine million “fans” on Facebook and gets thousands of comments there.

- from an autopsy on Google Plus in the Wall Street Journal

One of the best functions of Google’s auto-complete function is to gauge how people feel about things when no one’s looking at them, and thereby to identify current stereotypes and biases. 4chan would perform a similar function, except that 4chan posters, unlike Google search results, are often deliberately trying to be offensive.

Google + Facebook = ?

After initially promising numbers, Google + has failed to live up to its own Facebook-killer hype. After I noticed a pattern and sent some emails, one of the head engineers of the research and development team spoke to solo1y.tumblr under the condition of anonymity.

“I think people would be surprised if they knew where most of the money was coming from,” claims the obviously Jewish 20-something. “I was surprised too. Our main investor was a company I’d never heard of before, and when I got a friend of mine at the IRS to backtrace it, it turned out that 51% of its shares were owned by a Mark Elliot Zuckerberg.”

Some argue the sole function of Google + was to take those away from Facebook those users who were constantly whining about privacy and security, and otherwise generally ruining it for everyone else, thus making the revenue stream more aerodynamic. There’s no doubt that given the recent IPO, the big winner in the entire Google + debacle is Mark Zuckerberg.

Conspiracy theories aside, the monumental fail of Google Plus has re-energised Facebook, which, as it did with myspace and many other social network sites, ripped everything useful from their interface and incorporated into Facebook, later forcing all users to adopt the changes, followed by a series of weak apologies from Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook launches its IPO in February, which is expected to raise at least ten billion dollars in cash (about ten times what the Google IPO raised) for Mr. Mark Zuckerberg.