02.03.04

In Germany, it's 02.03.04 today :)

New nifty Google stuff

I got the latest issue of the Google Friends Newsletter and it has some nifty stuff in it.

You've probably heard of the Google calculator (e.g. try googling for e^(i pi) + 1 or furlongs per fortnight in km/h), but did you know about:

( All *this* nifty stuff? )

Finally, the newspaper headline convention of using a comma instead of a conjunction threw me when I read about "A WORLD OF TALENT - GOOGLE ENGINEERING IN SWITZERLAND, INDIA"—quaint place names they have there in South Asia... or maybe imperialism striking back?

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Oh, and for the Perl geeks: read about DBD::Google - a Perl interface that lets you query Google with SQL statements! (It appears that the link in that blog entry is wrong: replace both instances of 'google' with 'Google' and it should work.) Under the hood, it uses the SOAP interface, apparently, so you'll need your own Google API key.

beef up the size of your johns0n!

(Cross-posted to my journal and to linguaphiles)

I was just going through my "spam trap" folder (15'000 emails! yikes!), and that reminded me:

Does anyone use "johnson" as a synonym for "penis"? So far, I've seen it exclusively in spam, and I wonder whether it's a made-up spammer word, or whether it really is used in some parts of Anglophonia...