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The Stop Ashlee Simpson Petition sucessfully had the annoying star thrown out of our galaxy. The people have spoken.

Now Google officially can do everything Yahoo! can do, and do it better!

Google just launched a beta of it’s Google Maps site. You can drag around the map with your mouse! No more clicking on stupid arrows to find out what you’re looking for isn’t over there. You’ll also notice in the image below that Markham appears before St.Catharines does, must be the 200+ population in the ‘town’ of Markham versus the 60+ in St. Catharines.

Only time will tell what it’s results are like, but here’s hoping.

Like always, I learnt this from Slashdot, but what I really wanted to share is this person’s post:

Re:Google will never stop… (Score:5, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 08, @08:07 (#11605396)

Thats nothing. Try this on for size:

I don’t know how long it will be before someone at MSN notices that a whole lot of people are interested in this trip; this has appeared on many newsgroups already.

1. mappoint.msn.com/DirectionsFind.aspx
2. Plan a trip from Haugesund, Norway to Trondheim, Norway
3. Laugh

I followed his instructions for you:

Mr. Chretien, this is your future:

If you keep trying to scuttle this inquiry, and it is proven that you sunk millions of public money into Liberal trinkets for Quebecers, than your legacy will be re-written.

One thing Mr. Chretien’s new legacy might have in common with his old is that they will both prove expensive for Canadians.

UPDATE: Good on Mr. Chretien. He may infact be culpable in all of this, but he was never dircetly culpable. Plus his little golf ball demonstration [Globe and Mail] was very well done and a good response to Judge Gomery’s comments that the golf balls Chretien had made were “Small town cheap”. Chretien produced golf balls with the signatures of world leaders and one from the law firm Judge Gomery’s daughter works for.

My web site used to get along pretty well with Google. They searched my web site a lot and I gaind some pretty good rankings. I couls just mention some one I know in my blog…. say…. Chris Court A.K.A. Monkey, and pretty soon I was the number one Google result for that person.

Well now that MSN has revamped their search engine it’s been getting a little greedy. As per this thread over on , the bot which Microsoft uses to index the world’s web pages appears to needlesly index all kinds of content.

Some one asked Yahoo the question “How will the next Pope be chosen?” What I’m wondering is how will it be covered?

Should Jean-Paul the second die, and it will be soon, then a conclave will be held and a the Cardinals will hold a secret ballet to elect the new Pontiff. The ballots are burned after each vote, and if the vote is unsuccessful, a substance is added to the fire to produce black smoke. When the black smoke goes up then we all know the voting goes on, if it’s white then we have a new pope. I don’t really know how good a signal this is, because there is no good footage from the seventies of Jean-Paul’s selection – but that won’t be the case this time.

MILLIONS OF DOLLARS are spent each year by the CNNs, NBCs, BBCs, Reuters of the world to gain the rights to roof tops in rome that over look the Vatican city so that reporters can cover this event. Millions of dollars spent, in the hopes that the Pope will die and one news agency will have the best shot. Something has always bothered me about these investments in someone’s death.

Likewise, we will/have start/ed seeing news packages about Pope Jean-Paul the second, packages that have been ready for years, and checked and updated by interns over the summer. They’ll talk about when he was shot, his other health scares, what he did for the homles of Eastern Europe, and the contraception based protection from AIDS that the pope prevents from reaching Africa.

In the same way that five minute news packages were ready for the death of Johny Carson and Peier Burtton, packages are ready for every important person near deaths door. Imagine a phone call out of the blue “Hello Y, could you give me a few comments about X” “X is a great person, why do you ask” “Oh, we’re preparing for when he’s dead”.
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