Questions:
1. Who typed 2204355 into Google and hit I’m Feeling Lucky in the first place?
2. What is going on?
3. Where I can get some chicken right now?
Tag Archives: google
Time-travel Tuesday: Will time-travel be like Google Street-view?
1 CommentsMarch 23, 2010 – 12:00 pm
OK guys, I have a splitting headache right now so I don’t want any fuss, alright? Right. Now everybody sit down and listen, because here be wisdom. TIME WISDOM. (The best kind)
Everybody wonders why, if time-travel is one day possible, we don’t see time-travellers running around in space-lycra every day, messing stuff up and generally being time-vandals. Sceptics will tell you that the fact that we don’t see time-travellers today proves that time-travel will never be invented. These people should shut up.
There are a couple of ways we might counter such joyless scepticism, but I’m only going to give you one today, because frankly the other one is so amazing it’s going to make me astoundingly rich one day, and I don’t feel like giving the secret recipe for fame and glory away for free online. As such, you get the slightly less incredible version. I stress slightly less incredible because it’s still going to blow your mind, so you might wanna put down a towel or something before reading on… Read More
Newsgush: Bill Gates joins Twitter
1 CommentsJanuary 20, 2010 – 11:05 am
Microsoft, I remember when you used to be cool.
Well, not cool, but evil at least! With your big, lumbering, expensive, horrible products and your total disdain for the average Joe who just wants to set up his wireless internet. But never mind all that. Now we’ve learned via Pocketlint that Bill Gates, figurehead of Microsoft despite being several years retired – is on Twitter and making himself (and by extension Microsoft) look all cuddly and approachable.
Boo! I don’t like friendly Microsoft, I miss evil, seven-billion-pounds-for-the-student-edition Microsoft! No wonder Google have taken over as Apple’s main competitor. If this keeps up it wont be long before they ‘do a Sega’ and drop out of the race entirely. they’ll probably choose to ‘focus exclusively on their touchscreen dinner-table division’ or somesuch.
Sorry, this has turned into a bit of a rant about how Microsoft are less powerful and evil than I wish they were. What this says about me I’m not sure, but anyway – you can follow Captain Gates himself at twitter.com/billgates
Google and giant robots: News Round-up
4 CommentsJanuary 13, 2010 – 11:31 am
Yesterday was a pretty slow news day. Nevermind, it happens, and we’ve already had so much news today (and it’s only 10.30) that this is going to be something of a round-up post.
First – Google’s Nexus One phone – the fabled iPhone-killer-makes-your-baby-handsome-cures-all-ills God-phone faces dissappointing first-week sales, if app analytics firm Flurry can be trusted. Only 20,000 units have been shifted – that’s 80 times fewer devices than the iPhone 3GS managed to peddle in its first week. To be fair, the phone was hyped into all oblivion, and when it turned out to be (shocker) just a phone, people were pretty disappointed.
In other Google news – the search engine super-giant have threatened to pull out of China, apparently in response to the hacking of human-rights activist’s email accounts. Drama! Google were criticised by some for even providing their service to China in the first place, but Google stated they did so in the name of a free internet, and greater access to information for China’s citizens. Thoughts on all this superpower-quibbling in the comments please.
Finally, and somewhat more light-heartedly - Activision are bringing Transformers: War for Cybertron to all consoles at some point this year. (would it kill these big publishers to at least take a stab at a release date?)
The game is set on Cybertron, before the transformers head to Earth. This is good because presumably it means zero humans interfering with the robot-action. Also, the Transformers themselves will be sporting a cartoony look more in keeping with the original cartoons, as opposed to the “Michael Bay-ified insect-like versions.”
Which is nice.
Dear Google: Please don’t let this be a countdown to you going evil. kthnxbai.
5 CommentsDecember 14, 2009 – 4:56 pm
Oh dear. Google are up to something.
It’s probably some amazing new app or service that will make us all much happier and provide us with spiritual enrichment, but there’s always the chance that this is it: they’re finally going evil as we always suspected they would.
The buzz is all about this mysterious Easter Egg. Go to Google.com and hit ‘I’m feeling lucky’ with no search terms entered. Cue a mysterious countdown, that seems to be aimed at the new year…
But why?
Suggestions please.
EDIT: Apparently, if you change the clock on your computer you’ll change the countdown timer. Any brave readers with a few spare minutes fancy setting their clock to 2 minutes to New Years and seeing what happens when it ticks down to zero?
