Sounds like a Google Bomb to me. I think it's kinda amusing. :) I also think everyone should have to take a class before they get on the Internet. Cuts down on gullibility. I hope. I remember my best friend and I trying to explain to the sysadmin of my previous college that the Good Times Virus didn't really exist and to take down the flyers he had posted. He should have known better. I once convinced a guy that I had managed to conceal a virus in a jpg and his computer was now infected. (Yes, I now know that some guy managed to use a graphic to carry a virus payload.) And I once set the command prompt of a XAX/VMS shell account to say "Morris Virus alert!" and one of my bosses thought it was a real alert and started panicking. Hee hee. She about killed me when I told her the truth.

I do think that a lot of the jokes about France is an attempt to get them to join the USA. It's an immature way to do things. I also wonder what is going to happen after this war, not just what will happen during it. I expect a lot of abuse of authority. When we give up some right in the cry for safety from "terror", when can we expect to get it back?

Posted by: Morris Cox on March 18, 2003 12:28 AM

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ehhhhh. Do people really use the "I'm feeling lucky" button? It's always been an annoying space waster for me. When I show Google to people they concur, thinking it's stupid. At best, a marketing gimmick. Unless I I compose a complex query (phrase + word + word), my target link is usually ranked 2-10.

Posted by: Itchy Scalp on March 18, 2003 09:12 AM

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a lot of peopleuse it as a replacment for the address bar; Type in a URL, hit "I'm feeling lucky" and you're there.

Posted by: mick on March 18, 2003 02:07 PM

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Real Nerds just like to think they'll get lucky. Well, at least on Google. :)

Posted by: MadMan on March 18, 2003 11:13 PM

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