Archive for January, 2006

Fly car on Google Maps

Zoom in on the white car just left of the road on this Google Map. It looks like it’s flying. Before you ask, it’s somewhere in Australia.

Happy birthday to computer viruses

20 years ago this month the first PC virus, Brain.A, was discovered.
While the boot-sector style of virus, of which Brain.A is a member, is long extinct it set in motion the problem of computer viruses with over 150,000 known today.

Google Bombing – or how Bush is a miserable failure

I know ‘Google Bombing’ is an old term. But I found a posting about it on the Google Blog. What I found most interesting is that while they admit it’s a problem, they won’t hand fix the bombed searches.
If you want to try it out, search for failure or miserable failure [...]