Most Searched Google Words

by Seth on January 25, 2010 · Filed Under Google's most searched words · 5 Comments 
1. liz claiborne
2. detroit fireworks
3. ann coulter
4. national wild turkey scholarship
5. kidzbop.com
6. american association of bovine practitioners scholarship
7. beekeeping essay contest
8. debra williams
9. gigantopithecus
10. elizabeth edwards
11. bet awards
12. elizabeth edwards ann coulter
13. max snow
14. kimberly bell
15. jib jab
16. mike webster
17. buster brown s dog
18. amber hess
19. faeroe islands
20. brian pillman
21. rick rude
22. roman a clef
23. click on detroit
24. wdiv
25. kidz bop
26. tiresias
27. lcra
28. queen hatshepsut
29. fairport high school
30. romeo s last words
31. hip hop for peace
32. uhuru peak
33. purim s month
34. honshu city
35. society of dog walkers scholarship
36. www.kidzbop.com
37. potti
38. singer ocasek
39. live free or die hard
40. shoelace tip
41. birthplace of galileo
42. curt hennig
43. chicago hope emmy winner
44. barrington irving
45. del wilkes
46. jibjab
47. bigfoot field researchers organization
48. marble falls tx
49. detroit weather
50. nikolai bonds
51. iphone reviews
52. fragile x syndrome
53. rochester ny news
54. target fireworks
55. channel 4 detroit
56. chris candido
57. twelve monkeys
58. bailey goodman
59. van gogh s home in france
60. bernstein s trouble in
61. daniel benoit
62. trista moretti
63. frank mccourt book
64. getawebpage scholarship
65. damn yankees siren
66. angelina anisimova
67. group of prayers
68. film overlay
69. chester arthur
70. rick the renegade williams
71. democrat and chronicle
72. iron sheik
73. wii ware
74. blogging for progress scholarship
75. clickondetroit.com
76. nocturnal beetle
77. hannah congdon
78. franklin s wife
79. matt geiger
80. wwj
81. forward your message scholarship
82. roman septet
83. virtual poetry slam scholarship
84. fox 2 detroit
85. quahog
86. holmby hills
87. hardball
88. fanatics and fools
89. zenon girl of the 21st century
90. asta s mistress
91. crash holly
92. good cop baby cop
93. chris matthews
94. samsung t409
95. ray the big boss man traylor
96. champagne tony
97. raymond hercules hernandez
98. musical mitchell
99. wxyz
100. mexican gold

Top 100 Google Searched Keywords for Search Engine Optimization

by Melissa on January 24, 2010 · Filed Under Google's most searched words · 6 Comments 

Last week we had a comment from John on one of my other articles asking whether there is a comprehensive list of the top 100 searched keywords for Google for use in Search Engine Optimization.
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Google’s Most Searched Words

by Seth on January 17, 2010 · Filed Under Google's most searched words · 2 Comments 
1. asphyxiation
2. jacque jones
3. bet awards
4. kaitlyn lasitter
5. curt henning
6. kaitlyn lassiter
7. dream catchers hair extensions
8. nancy benoit
9. www.mileyworld.com/vip
10. davey boy smith
11. larry king live
12. cia family jewels
13. espys
14. roid rage
15. mileyworld.com/vip
16. kevin sullivan
17. mika brzezinski
18. ebb and flow
19. ann coulter
20. wrestler kills family
21. kris jenner
22. tire recall
23. cracklin
24. dead wrestlers
25. nancy grace
26. shaq s big challenge
27. bob woodruff
28. salli richardson
29. daniel benoit
30. tvnewser.com
31. elizabeth hulette
32. lissandra nieves
33. jacques derrida
34. kevin eubanks
35. sebastian melmoth
36. owen hart
37. miss elizabeth
38. espy awards
39. lex luger
40. curt mr. perfect hennig
41. chris and nancy benoit
42. tallac village
43. crash holly
44. s 1639
45. pro wrestling deaths
46. nancy daus
47. pygmy hippo
48. imikimi
49. jim ross
50. bret hart
51. angora fire
52. david linch
53. rick rude
54. bet.com/takethecake
55. chris benoit text messages
56. chris benoit press conference
57. nancy sullivan
58. copa america schedule
59. espys 2007
60. erica cerra
61. the ninth gate
62. hedge funds
63. khleo thomas
64. nafta superhighway
65. tanya nicole kach
66. jill goodacre
67. tiger woods baby pictures
68. notme.hk
69. big boss man
70. telefutura
71. wrestler murder
72. six flags tragedy
73. bam bam bigelow
74. holmby hills
75. nrdc
76. british bulldog
77. iphone review
78. us bank
79. dino bravo
80. world wrestling entertainment
81. duncan hunter
82. will ferrell landlord
83. woman benoit
84. tahoe tribune
85. hannah montana 2 lyrics
86. kevin garnett
87. tallac village lake tahoe
88. von erich
89. mileycyrus.com
90. junkyard dog
91. wrestler suicide
92. espy voting
93. msnbc anchor tears up paris script
94. cia documents
95. elton brand
96. hatshepsut
97. lake cheko
98. holes soundtrack
99. tahoe keys
100. johnson county texas

Googles Most Searched Words

by Melissa on January 13, 2010 · Filed Under Google's most searched words · 2 Comments 
1. owen hart
2. nafta superhighway
3. kevin eubanks
4. nancy benoit
5. catcher.hk
6. tanya nicole kach
7. pocono record
8. chris benoit wife
9. woman benoit
10. notme.hk
11. nancy daus
12. smothered
13. actress oberon
14. hatshepsut
15. sebastian melmoth
16. woman wrestler
17. bet awards
18. roid rage
19. wayne williams
20. jacques derrida
21. nancy elizabeth daus sullivan benoit
22. bret hart
23. world wrestling entertainment
24. woman wcw
25. the utne reader
26. chris benoit and woman
27. oater actor jack
28. cherry valley golf course
29. kevin sullivan
30. wrestler kills family
31. cia family jewels
32. delilah dicrescenzo
33. cornelia skinner
34. chris benoit text messages
35. the thief of baghdad
36. actor rickman
37. lex luger
38. us senate
39. magnatag
40. painter chagall
41. miss elizabeth
42. aeneid city
43. pro wrestler chris benoit
44. whitewater country club
45. tolkien baddie
46. wrestling deaths
47. seuss environmentalist
48. ryan and brianna morrison
49. adaptation costar
50. mystery writer rankin
51. biblical liar
52. dead wrestlers
53. nancy grace
54. scarecrow of oz
55. purple flowered tree
56. joltin joe
57. altar boy
58. us bank
59. kevin bankston smokes
60. usaa
61. lissandra nieves
62. benoit murder
63. ms07 0065
64. comic caroline
65. japanese cartoon films
66. internet radio equality act
67. wwe manager woman
68. novelist calvino
69. cloture vote
70. national wild turkey scholarship
71. nowheresville
72. wendi murdoch
73. jellied delicacy
74. society of dog walkers scholarship
75. sherri martel
76. crash holly
77. atlanta journal constitution
78. senate vote
79. owen hart death video
80. wrestler murder
81. colonel claus von stauffenberg
82. amos alonzo stagg
83. daniel benoit
84. captain queeg s ship
85. iphone plans
86. sailor s saint
87. jeff and jer
88. s 1639
89. tire recall
90. larry king live
91. mika brzezinski
92. tiger woods baby pictures
93. chris benoit autopsy results
94. american association of bovine practitioners scholarship
95. large african antelope
96. greek h
97. jim ross
98. internet radio day of silence
99. wrestler dies
100. beekeeping essay contest

Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

by Jonathan on March 10, 2009 · Filed Under Current Events, Technology · 4 Comments 

Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)


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So, you don’t mind being followed and tracked? You don’t care if your friends can see what websites you’ve been to lately, what software you’ve been running, or even what music you’ve been listening to? Then you’ll love the web’s trend towards extreme openness: sharing everything you do on your computer. Sometimes referred to as sharing your ‘attention’ data, this is a growing market. Below, we round up 12 services that want to track your every move – voluntarily.

Wakoopa Logo

Wakoopa is an excellent service which tracks what software you have been running. It keeps tabs of what software is running in the background, what software you have installed, and what software you actively use. Every so often the software uploads this data to the Wakoopa site where it then lists all programs you have been running. The interesting thing here is that you can add friends to track individually or join a team and combine the data. Thanks to Wakoopa, I have found several useful programs that I now use regularly.

Last.fm has been making news with the site being acquired by CBS for nearly $300 million. If you’re a tech-savvy music fan, you probably already use it. With Last.fm you download a small program which gathers information on the current song you are playing through your favorite mp3 software application. Through a process called “scrobbling,” the software determines what song you are listening to and then uploads this song’s data to the server and then keeps track of it. On the website itself there are many ways of viewing the data which is fun to play around with. To be honest though, I think the greatest part is learning exactly how much horrible music you listen to and what songs your friends listen to in comparison. (Our Last.fm review.)

Cluztr takes it to the web by tracking every site you visit online through your browser. Not only that, it also keeps a history log or “clickstream” of all those sites. One word of advice, avoid visiting sites that your mother would not think much of, as it’s all out there for your friends to view. Cluztr installs a plug-in to your FireFox or Flock browser (sorry IE and Safari users, Cluztr is hopeful for a mid to late 2007 release) where it then captures your entire web surfing history and compiles it into your “clickstream” which you are free to share or publish on the web for all your friends to see. There are also social functions built into the sidebar which allow for posting of messages for that specific site which other users can see when visiting that same site. (Our Cluztr review.)

AttentionTrust offers services similar to Cluztr. AttentionTrust installs as a browser plug-in and tracks the sites you visit. You can then take this data and share it with other applications or development projects that could make use of this data, or simply store it on your desktop. AttentionTrust’s idea is to let you share this data with in interested parties for a fee – in other words, a form of lead generation.

Atten.TV Logo

Atten.TV is another site that allows you to follow what you or your friends are clicking on around the web. You have the option to share this data or keep it private. It is completely up to you. Since you are reading this article, I think it is safe to assume you are leaning towards the former option. The downloadable application is only for Mac OS currently. (Our Atten.tv review.)

Me.dium can be considered a competitor to Cluztr. Me.dium takes the same basic approach, but doesn’t act as a personal log: instead, it lets you see which sites your friends are on, and join them there. It is simply personal preference on your decision to use Cluztr, Me.dium, Atten.TV or AttentionTrust. (Our Me.dium review.)

Plazes Logo

Plazes is a service that tracks where you are no matter where you are in the world. So now if you not only want your pals to know where you are online, you can have them know where you are in person. Just be sure not to get in to trouble with this service.

iStalkr doesn’t keep tabs on you directly, but rather, indirectly by utilizing RSS and ATOM feeds that most social web 2.0 sites are utilizing now. If you sign up for an iStalkr account and enter some social sites you are a member of, like Del.icio.us and Twitter, iStalkr will then grab the RSS/ATOM feed for that service and will be able to get your updates from the site. To put it simply, think of iStalkr like as a central hub for your social website information and updates. (Our iStalkr review.)

SlifeShare Logo

SlifeShare is an application built for the Mac OS primarily. If you are running Firefox you can install the extension regardless of what OS you run. SlifeShare is similar to iStalkr in that the application tracks data from multiple sources and acts as a central hub, but SlifeShare takes it a step further and collects this data directly. Music, videos, photos, websites, applications, and more are tracked and then the data is displayed on the SlifeShare website which you can share with friends. You are only allowed five friends, after which you must either become a premium user or just stick with the five friend limit. (Our SlifeShare review.)

YouTube Logo

YouTube Active Share simply allows you to share videos that you watch on YouTube with all your friends. Your profile will show what videos you have recently watched and when you are currently watching a video while others are viewing the same video, they will see your name appear on a list of people currently watching that video.

Particls is a downloadable application which doesn’t necessarily track what you do, but instead tracks what you are most interested in receiving information about. The concept is that you allow the Particls software to search your documents for keywords that will allow the program to determine what information you want to be fed to your computer via RSS and ATOM feeds. For example, if you type in Web 2.0, it’s almost a guarantee you will receive site updates from the Mashable website directly to the Particls software. Minor problems with the application is that it can be a resource hog at times, but it is very powerful, and Particls will have an ad supported version and a pay version in the future.

Google Logo

Google History has drawn much controversy over privacy issues. Google search history is another controversial tool Google released that tracks every search term you enter into Google’s various search tools. This feature is mainly for your benefit only.

Got any more sites that track you around the web? Add them in the comments.

by James Mowery

Live Satellite Images in Google Earth!

by Margaret on March 9, 2009 · Filed Under Technology · 14 Comments 

Live Satellite Images in Google Earth!

As part of the Google Earth image update released last week Google quietly added a major new feature to Google Earth – live satellite images!

Using the live satellite mode I created a screen capture of cars driving down a road, which you can see in the animated thumbnail below.

Live Satellite only works for the city of Edinburgh, UK but will be rolled out to other cities in the near future. Apparently Google wanted to keep this amazing new feature quiet so as to not overload the satellite’s built-in web server.

If you’d like to see the Live Satellite Mode in action yourself then load up this placemark file.

Be warned that Edinburgh is very cloudy today, so you may have to search around a bit to find a gap in the clouds.

We’re told that as Google add the Live Satellite feature to more and more cities they plan to rename Google Earth to Google Live Local.

Please note that this entry is an April Fool’s Joke – there are no live images to be seen!

Chemical Warfare

by Melissa on March 9, 2009 · Filed Under military · 1 Comment 

Chemical Warfare

  1. Chemical warfare definition

    1. warfare using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill, injure or incapacitate an enemy.

    2. Use of lethal or incapacitating chemical weapons in war, and the methods of combating such agents

  2. Chemical warfare technology

    1. Chemical weapon agents

      1. Persistency

All chemical weapon agents are classified according to their persistency, a measure of the length of time that a chemical agent remains effective after dissemination. Chemical agents are classified as persistent or nonpersistent.

Agents classified as nonpersistent lose effectiveness after only a few minutes or hours. Purely gaseous agents such as chlorine are nonpersistent, as are highly volatile agents such as sarin and most other nerve agents. Tactically, nonpersistent agents are very useful against targets that are to be taken over and controlled very quickly. Generally speaking, nonpersistent agents present only an inhalation hazard.

By contrast, persistent agents tend to remain in the environment for as long as a week, complicating decontamination. Defense against persistent agents requires shielding for extended periods of time. Non-volatile liquid agents, such as blister agents and the oily VX nerve agent, do not easily evaporate into a gas, and therefore present primarily a contact hazard.

      1. Classes of chemical weapon agents

Chemical weapon agents are organized into several categories according to the manner in which they affect the human body. The names and number of categories varies slightly from source to source,

      1. Chemical weapon designations

Most chemical weapons are assigned a one- to three-letter “NATO weapon designation” in addition to, or in place of, a common name. Binary munitions, in which precursors for chemical weapon agents are automatically mixed in shell to produce the agent just prior to its use, are indicated by a “-2″ following the agent’s designation (for example, GB-2 and VX-2).

    1. Chemical agent delivery

The most important factor in the effectiveness of chemical weapons is the efficiency of its delivery, or dissemination, to a target. The most common techniques include munitions (such as bombs, projectiles, warheads) that allow dissemination at a distance and spray tanks which disseminate from low-flying aircraft. Developments in the techniques of filling and storage of munitions have also been important.

Although there have been many advances in chemical weapon delivery since World War I, it is still difficult to achieve effective dispersion. The dissemination is highly dependent on atmospheric conditions because many chemical agents act in gaseous form. Thus, weather observations and forecasting are essential to optimize weapon delivery and reduce the risk of injuring friendly forces.

      1. Dispersion

Dispersion is the simplest technique of delivering an agent to its target. It consists of placing the chemical agent upon or adjacent to a target immediately before dissemination, so that the material is most efficiently used.

World War I saw the earliest implementation of this technique, when German forces simply opened canisters of chlorine and allowed the wind to carry the gas across enemy lines. While simple and easy, this technique had numerous disadvantages. Delivery depended greatly on wind speed and direction.

non-explosive artillery

1950s and early 1960s, chemical artillery rockets

      1. Thermal dissemination

Thermal dissemination is the use of explosives or pyrotechnics to deliver chemical agents.

      1. Aerodynamic dissemination

Aerodynamic dissemination is the non-explosive delivery of a chemical agent from an aircraft, allowing aerodynamic stress to disseminate the agent.

  1. History

    1. Chemical warfare in ancient and classical times

Chemical weapons have been used for millennia in the form of poisoned arrows

during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. Spartan forces besieging an Athenian city placed a lighted mixture of wood, pitch, and sulfur under the walls hoping that the noxious smoke would incapacitate the Athenians, so that they would not be able to resist the assault that followed

    1. The rediscovery of chemical warfare

During the Renaissance, people again considered using chemical warfare. One of the earliest such references is from Leonardo da Vinci, who proposed a powder of sulfide of arsenic

    1. Chemical warfare in World War I

The French were the first to use chemical weapons during the First World War, using tear gas

Germans attacked French, Canadian and Algerian troops with chlorine gas.

    1. Chemical warfare in the interwar years

After World War I, the United States and many of the European powers attempted to take advantage of the opportunities that the war created by attempting to establish and hold colonies. During this interwar period, chemical agents were occasionally used to subdue populations and suppress rebellion.

In 1935 Fascist Italy used mustard gas during the invasion of Ethiopia in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. Ignoring the Geneva Protocol, which it signed seven years earlier, the Italian military dropped mustard gas in bombs, sprayed it from airplanes, and spread it in powdered form on the ground. 15,000 chemical casualties were reported, mostly from mustard gas.

The Soviet Union also employed poison gas on its own people during the interwar period. Soviet commander Mikhail Tukhachevsky used chemical weapons in the 1921 suppression of a massive peasant uprising around Tambov.

    1. Chemical warfare in World War II

During World War II, chemical warfare was revolutionized by Nazi Germany’s accidental discovery of the nerve agents tabun, sarin and soman.

The Japanese used mustard gas

German–manufactured “fine white powder,” and instructions from the Mufti to dump chemicals into the Tel Aviv water system.

The Nazis used the insecticide Zyklon B, which contains hydrogen cyanide, to kill large numbers of victims in concentration camps

    1. Chemical warfare during the Cold War

      1. Developments by the Western governments

After World War II, the Allies recovered German artillery shells containing the three German nerve agents of the day (tabun, sarin, and soman), prompting further research into nerve agents by all of the former Allies. Although the threat of global thermonuclear annihilation was foremost in the minds of most during the Cold War, both the Soviet and Western governments put enormous resources into developing chemical and biological weapons.

US (VE, VG, VM, VX)

      1. United States Senate Report

A 1994 United States Senate Report, entitled “Is military research hazardous to veterans health? Lessons spanning a half century,”[4] detailed the United States’ Department of Defense practice of experimenting on animal and human subjects, often without a latter’s knowledge or consent. [5] This included:

      1. Developments by the Soviet government

Due to the secrecy of the Soviet Union’s government, very little information was available about the direction and progress of the Soviet chemical weapons until relatively recently. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian chemist Vil Mirzayanov published articles revealing illegal chemical weapons experimentation in Russia.

      1. Chemical warfare in the Iran-Iraq War

The Iran-Iraq War began in 1980 when Iraq attacked Iran. Early in the conflict, Iraq began to employ mustard gas and tabun delivered by bombs dropped from airplanes; approximately 5% of all Iranian casualties are directly attributable to the use of these agents. Iraq and the U.S. government alleged that Iran was also using chemical weapons, but independent sources were unable to confirm these allegations.

About 100,000 Iranian soldiers were victims of Iraq’s chemical attacks. Many were hit by mustard gas.

    1. Chemical weapons and terrorism

In 2001, after carrying out the attacks in New York City on September 11, the organization Al Qaeda announced that they were attempting to acquire radiological, biological and chemical weapons. This threat was lent a great deal of credibility when a large archive of videotapes was obtained by the cable television network CNN in August of 2002 showing, among other things, the killing of three dogs by an apparent nerve agent.

  1. Example: VX Gas


methylphosphonothioic acid, S-[2-[bis(1-methylethyl)amino]ethyl]- O-ethyl ester

    1. In the film “The Rock”, it was that “green” that the terrorists threatened San Francisco Bay area

    2. In a combat situation, VX Gas would be deployed by detonating a container (e.g. a missile) of gas over the target area.

    3. VX Gas has an LD50 (dose toxic to 50% of victims) is the lowest of any known compound at only 10mg (a raindrop weighs about 50mg).

    4. VX Gas is easily absorbed into the body, and inhalation at concentrations as low as 30mg per cubic meter kills within fifteen minutes.

    5. VX Gas disrupts the passage of messages between nerves, and from nerves to muscles.

    6. It operates by cutting off the nervous system

    7. VX Gas causes many symptoms, and usually kills.

    8. VX Gas has effective antidotes if treated promptly.

    9. The International Chemical Weapons Convention bans the use of nerve agents (including VX Gas), and requires all stockpiles to be destroyed by 2007.

    10. UN weapons inspectors have found EMPTA, a VX precursor, in Iraqi factories, and at the site of the 1998 US bombardment of factories in The Sudan

Agent Identification and Common Name(s)

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Name

Chemical Structure

Google’s Most Searched Keywords for SEO

by Robert on March 9, 2009 · Filed Under Google's most searched words · 5 Comments 

Melissa and I have been charged with determining the most searched keywords in Google for purposes of SEO.
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American Dream

by Seth on March 9, 2009 · Filed Under ramblings · 2 Comments 

American Dream

There are many concepts of the clichéd American Dream. Former President Bill Clinton’s administration believed the American Dream to consist of everyone residing in America to enjoy comfort and free medical care (Roark 1135). Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed the American Dream to be one of racial equality, as Barnet and Bedau described in their reproduced speech (803-806). Different people romanticize various notions of monetary, racial, and religious equality, diversity, and tolerance. This assortment of liberal ideals has caused the Americans’ accord to stray from the actual dream.

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Religion as a Cyber Society

by Sandy on March 8, 2009 · Filed Under social · 1 Comment 

sdfThe exponential growth of the Cyber society and Cyber culture within the Internet has not gone unnoticed by the “religious community.” As I write, church web sites are being published and electronic prayer groups zip by in modems and wire networks across the globe. Even isolated monasteries like the Monastery of the Christ in the Desert (see sidebar) are able to send their Benedictine messages from their cloister in New Mexico. New age religions also use the [virtual] soil of the Internet as the center of their “virtual church” (see end of the Cyber society Observation for links on religious web pages). With these in mind, it is safe to write that Religion has seamlessly incorporated itself within the realm of Cyber society. The presence of Religion in Net Culture is not an unforeseen trend. Although Religion and Modernity does not have the best relationship, Religion has learned that they need to conform with the current trends of technology to survive. Read more

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