Google digging deeper to improve search results

SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. is about to add more features to its already dominant Internet search engine — and some of the changes could give Web surfers less reason to click through to other sites. That scenario might upset the creators of the material highlighted in Google's results.

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Top 10 credos of a Klingon programmer covering (Klingon) Software Development Life Cycle:

• Specifications are for the weak and timid!
• You cannot really appreciate ‘User Friendly’ until you’ve read it in the original Klingon.
• A TRUE Klingon Warrior does not comment his code!
• Behold, the keyboard of Kalis! The greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!
• Indentation? - I will show you how to indent when I indent your skull!
• Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak.
• You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you stand!
• By filing this bug report you have challenged the honor of my family. PREPARE TO DIE!
• What is this talk of ‘release’? Klingons do not release software. Our software 'escapes', leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
• Perhaps it IS a good day to die! I say that we ship it!
• Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Let them use it without a manual or let them flee like the dogs they are!

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I received a rather interesting article as comment on my blog (quoted below). Let's see how this can be an intelligent spam by utilizing a less-known loophole in WordPress' in-built comment spam protection logic. Full article (857 words) »

When I observe standard mobile-phone behavior among the natives of most Western nations–from France to Italy to the U.S.A.–I can't help but think of arctic wolves prowling the tundra, peeing on shrubs. On the other hand, in Japan, the creatures that come to mind are prairie dogs ducking into burrows and tabby cats lurking behind the La-Z-Boy.

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The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria received Ig Nobel prize this year "for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters — General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq."
The scams (also known as 419 scams) are notorious for asking people to reveal their private bank information to help fictitious characters transfer large sums of money.

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Randall Robinson reported in The Huffinton Post that "black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive".

Note: I briefly searched google news for corroborating evidence/reporting. I couldn't find any. However cannibalism or not the present situation in New Orleans is sad, very sad and appalling.

Four days after the storm, thousands of blacks in New Orleans are dying like dogs. No-one has come to help them.

I am a sixty-four year old African-American. New Orleans marks the end of the America I strove for.

I am hopeless. I am sad. I am angry against my country for doing nothing when it mattered.

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Impressive progress has been made in the treatment of haemophilia using gene therapy.

Professor Katherine High, a leading researcher from Philadelphia USA, is examining the obstacles to successful gene therapy in human patients with haemophilia.

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A voice synthesiser powered by thought alone could one day enable severely disabled patients to converse more instinctively.

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US. Scientists at Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research have created zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.

Actually the dogs are normal after re-animation. So they are alive as before. Read on to find their technique. Don't try this at home.
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