Day: January 26, 2007

Ken Jennings makes an interesting observation today:

…in the ’40s, Clark Kent always took a very leisurely approach to disaster intervention. Electric wires will be hissing and snapping, fire engulfing farmhouses, dams cracking, giant robots on the march, and Clark will just wander through the carnage like a doughy zombie. Finally at some arbitrary juncture, about seven minutes into the short, he’ll mutter his catchphrase-“This looks like a job…for Superman!” and duck into an alley to actually change into his crimefighting uniform for a brief action sequence.

This is surprising only until you remember that Supmerman, when all’s said and done, is a dick.

But he is a miserable failure!

After just over two years, Google has finally defused the “Google Bomb” that has returned US President George W. Bush at the top of its results in a search on miserable failure. The move wasn’t a post-State Of The Union Address gift for Bush. Instead, it’s part of an overall algorithm change designed to stop such mass link pranks from working.

Via Boing Boing.

Of course, the Google bomb was so widely reported that a search for “miserable failure” does still bring you mostly Bush-related links. Which I find amusing.

Even more amusing? Try looking up part numbers 18851985 and 19852015 in the the Delorean Motors car-parts search page. You can probably guess, but it’s still amusing. Via Jon Kilgannon.