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Google: Goats More Carbon Friendly Than Lawnmowers

Bullshit Detective — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:04:46 +0000

Google will be using a herd of goats to “mow” the lawns of it’s California Headquarters. Apparently, Yahoo is doing the same thing. It’s a great, low carbon, low noise-pollution approach to the grass mowing issue, and is a great public relations stunt in this environmentally conscious world.

The 200 goats can be seen wondering the lawns, the the reactions from employees have thus far been positive. Thought I am not sure what the people who would have made money mowing the lawns would say about this. I can just picture a union blockade trying to keep the goats from their meal. I see horns to the crotch.

The goats are not technically google employees, but they are entitled to a free completely organic lunch each day, according to google. To watch the goats grazing follow the link http://qik.com/video/1604803.

For the FoxNews story, go here. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518820,00.html

Pirate Google sets sail!

Christopher Aceto — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:47:24 +0000

The Pirate Bay is a website that indexes .torrent files. They have been battling a law suit which is targeted at the fact that they are indexing .torrent files, which allow downloading of pirated software.

The problem with all of this is the simple fact that indexing these files does not mean that they are condoning the downloading of pirated files, and sonce torrents are seeded throughout many individual computers, they aren’t hosting any pirated software. Another key point that has been raised is the fact that GOOGLE indexes torrents and has yet to be sued. So what is the difference?

From what I can tell, there is no difference and as you can see at The Pirate Google someone has decided to use Google’s search engine as a .torrent file search by enabling a simple .torrent filter in the search options.

What do you think?

[christopheraceto.com]

Prank Video Sullys Domino’s Brand

Bullshit Detective — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:51:32 +0000

Two Dominos employees have been fired after their prank video, where they are seen defiling pizza ingredients, became an explosive viral hit thanks to YouTube and the internet. The pair posted the video as a joke, probably to amuse their friends, but within days it stopped being funny. Now the two employees find themselves fired, charged with felonies, and Dominos is scrambling to fix a PR disastater, that it did nothing to create.

The problem with the internet, as it was in newspapers, is that everyone reads the article where you are accused, but no one reads the one where you are proved innocent, or where you get to say your peace. Maybe they should have tried to turn things around by hiring that dinamic duo, to do some damage control. By firing them and appearing to scramble to fix a non-existent problem, it makes the problem worse.

Here are their mugshots.

Google ‘Auto-Pilot’ Replaces You With Artificial Intelligence!

Christopher Aceto — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:54:22 +0000

Finally! I want to personally thank Google for finally creating ‘Auto-Pilot‘, an artificial intelligence system designed to respond to emails with 99.9% accuracy due to the inclusion of “human-like” qualities such as compasion and wisdom.

Take a look at these sample conversations:

lol

Google Lunar X Prize and the ARCA Launch

Christopher Aceto — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:13:15 +0000

The Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association (ARCA) has announced that it will be ready to launch it’s 92-pound rover called the European Lunar Lander within the the next few months. The objective of the launch is to float a balloon 11 miles above the sea, at which point a STABILO rocket will carry the payload to space.

Last year GOOGLE announced that it would be offering some exuberant amounts of money for the Lunar X Prize. There are several $5 million dollar prizes as well as the grand prize of $20 million, which ARCA is aiming for. In order to win the $20 million grand prize the ELL has to land, travel 500 feet on the surface of the moon, and send video, images, and data back to Earth.