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Patty continues to chug along with her comps. I continue to sleep off Dragon*Con. We have dates for when her parents are visiting before she heads to Cardiff, and things are coming together. I'm really looking forward (although her moreso, surely) to the comps getting finished so we can reconnect in some way other than propping each other up in the face of chaos.

I am continuing to make progress with my Dragon*Con recaps, but I did a lot of panels, so it's going to take a while.

Last night I went to Eataly. It's pretty cool. It reminded me not just of European food halls and not just of the smells of Italy, but also (because it's on my mind and has a huge Italian population and great Italian food), Sydney. I got a few goodies to bring home.

bifemmefatale's daughter has been found and wants to go home. So that's happening right now. Go team Internet!

Rahm Emmanuel may be the most interesting guy in politics. The narrative may be about to get more interesting, as he considers running for mayor of Chicago.

Anyone catch Meghan McCain on Rachel Maddow last night? Credit where credit is due, because she's a reminder that Republicans aren't the enemy; extremism is. Which is to say (because this has been weighing on me lately), if I've been a douche to my Republican friends lately, I'm sorry. I should not assume that the current extreme views tearing your party apart speak for you.

Apparently, Google Instant doesn't think lesbians or bisexuals exist or that the terms are too incendiary to provide immediate results. I suspect it's because of how much porn for straight, cisgendered men those terms are likely to bring up, and woah, not safe for work. But, this is not okay. via ladyofthelog in comments. And yeah, I tested it myself; these terms do not return Google Instant results.

Meanwhile the fake GallifreyOne attendee is at it again.

Comments

re: google

[mieronna.livejournal.com]

When using the normal search box without the new instant search thingy, there also is no drop-down box with suggestions for the terms you mentioned. I wouldn't swear to it, since I haven't googled either recently, but I think this was not the case before. /not amused

Re: google

[sanguinity]

"savage love" gives a blank screen, but the autosuggestion for "savage love mercury", suggesting that it'll start giving results again if you just keep going. Results reappear at "savage love " (with the trailing space).

The lack of autosuggest for "bisexual" or "lesbian" implies that there is no common search term starting with either phrase for which Instant will give you results. Or leastways, makes such a term very difficult to find.

Re: google

[hoyland54.livejournal.com]

The lack of autosuggest for "bisexual" or "lesbian" implies that there is no common search term starting with either phrase for which Instant will give you results.

I think I initially misread this sentence and started wondering if there was an issue with 'lesbian' being too ambiguous a search term, i.e. that there are too many things it could be continued with. However, 'latex' provides Instant results and the difference between latex and LaTeX ought to be sufficient to make it an ambiguous search term. (I think this search provides definitive evidence Google is tracking my search/web history, which I thought I told it not to do, though perhaps not on this computer--if I search for 'latex', I get the first non-LaTeX hit on page 3.)

Re: google

[sanguinity]

Have you had a look at Google's privacy dashboard? It's supposed to show you what web history Google associates with your account.

Re: google

[hoyland54.livejournal.com]

I'm typically not logged into my account, as I don't use the web interfaces and I've switched off web history, so the dashboard doesn't tell me much. I do, however, have Google's cookies enabled (I want the language preferences, not that they seem to work too well), but that doesn't seem like it'd do it. Perhaps they discovered I google LaTeX before I turned off web history.

I just googled 'DDR' out of curiosity, as it's another ambiguous search term where I'd only ever look for one meaning. No reference to East Germany in the first eight pages, so clearly Google doesn't know me that well, though I'm on a different computer that I posted the earlier comment from. (On the other hand, I'd never actually google DDR. But I'd never google just 'latex' either.)