From time to time, I find myself amused by the images that Google News chooses to use to accompany news stories. I know it's probably some complex algorithm that picks the image based on metadata incorporated into the image, blah blah.
If that's the case, explain to me what the hell metadata was embedded into this image to make it algorithmically associated to an article about Microsoft's Bing search engine?
Click image to excite it
I can only guess (and shudder) at what the "5 Turning Points" are based on the image.
I went back into Google News five hours later and found this...
Again, click the image to give it a thrill
Seriously, is Google trying to create a mental image of Microsoft as a bunch of crotch-grabbing child molesters? I knew Windows was evil, but this?
I was on Goodreads last night and I entered a bunch of contests for free books. It had been a while since I entered any, so why not?
One of the books was a comedy about a road trip (I think), another about a woman trying to bring to light in America the problems in Darfur, a third was about a female photojournalist in Vietnam. The fourth I entered -- just for kicks -- is about a woman's voyage of self-discovery... in the world of BDSM.
Guess which one I'm probably gonna win?
Oy.
