So today's xkcd has popularised the google search term "died in a blogging accident" in to an insane degree. My first thought was surprise that anybody had died in a blogging accident. (It never occured to me even for an instant that Randall Munroe might be making up statistics. Surely not!) Anyway, I googled it and came up with a million (Well, ~7400) pages of people talking about people searching for "died in a blogging accident." Then I decided that people were boring and unoriginal, and I was one of them.
So I searched "died in a logging accident," hoping that Google would suggest "Did you mean 'died in a blogging accident'?"
Alas, no.
Lots of people have died in logging accidents, by the way, and there's nothing funny about it.
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I think about Google a lot. I'm pretty sure this is not normal. Yesterday, I learned about a particularly bizarre one of Srinivasa Ramanujan's identities: 1+2+3+4+5+...+n = -1/12(R). Bizarre. Impossible, right? When the equation is rephrased as 1/1-1 + 1/2-1 + 1/3-1+...+ 1/n-1 = -1/12(R) it starts to seem less counterintuitive. Ramanujan's identities are so eerily beautiful, and this one would be my answer to #12 on the GLAT.
In other, sadder, news, there are more Americans who think the moon landing was faked than running Mac OS and Linux combined.
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