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one of those strange googlejuice moments…. i figured it was a quirk of some sort, and that it would eventually fade away, but perhaps not.

at the moment, if you ask google’s image search what is “sexy,” then down in the bottom row (hit #19) is a picture of a typhoon and a link to this blog.

it’s this post, which was a reference to this earlier post, both of which were about really big, dramatic storms. oddly enough, the google image search spider seems to have avoided updating the page in quite some time. i reorganized the archives a bit back in january, and these two storm posts moved from the science category to a new weather category. for the benefit of the hundreds of visitors i’m getting from google, i’ve done some tweaks so these inbounds end up at least in the right category. hopefully google will catch up soon (it’s been a couple months…). i imagine when it does, this freaky sexy phenomenon will fade out… but then again, the force is strong with this domain.

update (2005.03.16): curiosity about this drove me to investigate. we’ve had 7431 visitors from various google image search engines around the world looking for this image between january 16 and march 13, 2005. that’s a lot of sexy.

ok, just so i’m absolutely certain that my government has their priorities straight. the house committee on government reform has issued subpoenas for its hearings on steroid use in baseball. is this really the right place to address the issue?

Hearing slate not yet settled [san jose mercury news, march 11, 2005]

…in a letter Thursday to Major League Baseball, Davis and Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, the committee’s top Democrat, pointed to a provision in House rules giving the committee authority “to conduct investigations of any matter” at “any time.”

well, in the interest of good sourcing, let’s find the rules in question… i’ve never heard this rule invoked in public discourse before. sounds pretty broad. sounds like the the kind of rule we should’ve heard about dozens of times as our government got into one stupid situation after another… does it really exist?

(c)(1) NOTE: Sec. 749. Government Reform. The Committee on Government Reform shall–
(A) receive and examine reports of the Comptroller General of the United States and submit to the House such recommendations as it
considers necessary or desirable in connection with the subject matter
of the reports;
(B) evaluate the effects of laws enacted to reorganize the
legislative and executive branches of the Government; and
(C) study intergovernmental relationships between the United
States and the States and municipalities and between the United States
and international organizations of which the United States is a member.
(2) In addition to its duties under subparagraph (1), the
Committee on Government Reform may at any time conduct investigations of any matter without regard to clause 1, 2, 3, or this clause conferring jurisdiction over the matter to another standing committee. The findings and recommendations of the committee in such an investigation shall be made available to any other standing committee having jurisdiction over the matter involved.

yep. there it is. any matter at any time. they picked steroids in baseball. a house committee with the broadest possible scope has picked steroid abuse. surely, this means steroid abuse is the most important issue in america today.

you’re kidding me, right?

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