Ignoring the fact that this man seems to believe that his wife is his property, this article exemplifies the “fun” of content network and display advertising. I will forever associate his dealership with his stupidity and this frivolous lawsuit.

Maybe his new tag line should be: “Way easier than stealing my wife!”

He needs the money!

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Man saves dog from rattlesnake bite

This hero of a man, Bobby Jenkins of Wyoming, saved his lab, Tanker Truck aka Tank, by sucking the snake venom from the bitten dogs nose.

Story from the Casper Star-Tribune Online

Tank’s head had ballooned to three times its normal size. The vet at the Goshen County veterinary clinic, Jenkins said, was surprised the dog was still alive.

After his dog received an anti-venom shot, Jenkins and his mother shopped for groceries to take back to the ranch.

“My heart started beating really, really fast and I had a cold sweat,” he said. He and his mother headed for the hospital emergency room.

“It was awful,” Pat Shimic said Thursday. “I could tell he was ready to pass out. He was turning white.”

At the emergency room, a nurse told them sucking out the venom was the wrong thing to do.

Jenkins received four vials of anti-venom medication.

Jenkins and his mother were stunned at the cost — $3,500 per vial.

“I thought they were joking,” his mother said.”I thought they meant $35.”

Apparently the health care system is on the side of the snakes. Yikes.

Ominous Signs

The hospital said that was the second snake bite treatment this year.

Jenkins said there appear to be more rattlesnakes out this year than before.

Of course there are; the snakepocalypse is coming. But in addition to that the warm weather has snakes leaving their dens.

Apparently Jenkins’ case is unusual.

“I have never heard of this happening to a dog owner,” Dr. Tim Hackett, a veterinarian and associate professor of emergency and critical care service at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, said in an e-mail.

“I have heard stories about the dangers of sucking venom into your mouth but am not aware of any published cases,” he wrote.

“No first aid is generally recommended. Just get to a vet/physician as soon as possible,” Hackett added.

Dogs will be our allies

Zach Walker, a herpetologist with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, said only a handful of people die from snake bites every year.

The prairie rattlesnake, he said, is not as poisonous as other types such as the cottonmouth.

Moreover, a lot of snakes don’t give a full dose of venom.

“They save it for use on prey,” Walker said.”Some people get dry bites.”

Harassing a large snake is really dangerous, he said.

He said he also has heard that when a dog gets bitten by a rattlesnake and survives, the dog is henceforth immune to the venom.

And this is why dogs will be our allies when the snakepocalypse comes. We will have a race of venom immune uber dogs to fight at our sides.

Wow. Even the Daily Show is covering this snake epidemic! These snakes cannot be stopped!

Watch out D.C. and San Francisco. Stay vigilant for SNAKE ATTACKS.

In a related news story: Snakes love a bargain. Snakes shop at Wal-Mart.

After a little .httaccess editing, finally this iphone app is working!

I’m not really sure if mobile blogging is a good or bad thing. I guess the bonus is that I can at least appear like I didn’t fall off the face of the earth when the next MMO comes out.
Hooray!

Cuil.com – what is supposed to be the answer to Google and next-gen of search is all over the news today. So far I’m not impressed. Apparently the 121,617,892,992 web pages their crawler has indexed doesn’t include my own website!

Besides being a bit ego bruised, a quick search for myself on Cuil turns up all of these old… circa 2000 old… TCLUG (Twin Cities Linux User Group) mailing lists posts. While Google will also return some of these for my name, Google doesn’t think they are as relevant as, say, this domain… that includes my name and has my name, Jacqueline Urick, all over it. Ego aside, I’m siding with Google (and Yahoo, MSN and Ask) on this one – this site is going to be VERY relevant to a person searching for my name.

Searching for some clients, I found a blog post that referenced a blog post dated from 2005 in the first ten results that is now 404. Not so relevant.

Searching for linkedin (without quotes) doesn’t bring up linkedin.com. It doesn’t bring up anything. The error page you get is somewhat condescending.

We didn’t find any results for “linkedin”

Some reasons might be…

* a typo. Please check your spelling.
* your search includes a term that is very rare. Try to find a more common substitute.
* too many search terms. Please try fewer terms.

Finally, try to think of different words to describe your search.

I like how all the reasons the search fails is somehow my fault for sucking at searching.

If I put “linkedin” in quotes, I actually get results. That is really intuitive.

Maybe I’m jaded from using the “old way” for too long but I’m having a hard time meshing cuil’s results with my idea of relevant. According to their philosophy listed on their website, they appear to know what is relevant.

The Internet is getting bigger and more disorganized every day. Cuil’s goal is to solve the two great problems of search: how to index the whole Internet—not just part of it—and how to analyze and sort out its pages so you get relevant results.

Cuil’s founders worked with other search engines and knew that tinkering with old systems wouldn’t work. A fundamentally different approach was needed. So we’ve developed new architecture and algorithms that can handle the exponential growth of the Internet and organize results that reflect its enormous complexity.

Maybe we have different definitions. Maybe cuil is just inundated with requests right now. So far, I’m not impressed. I’m willing to give Cuil another chance.

Holy Memes Batman, Its Weezer.

I didn’t think it was possible to have moar internets and then Weezer came along and gave me a crap ton of internets. “Pork and Beans” is rockin’.

But besides just being a rocking Old-School-like Weezer jam, it is quite possibly one of the most brilliant viral marketing campaigns for a new album — ever. Check out the video:

So just about just every popular internet trend in the last few years featured here. Most notably, Weezer has gone out and picked up some of the most picked on people to feature. Chris Crocker (of LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE! fame) gets a hug from River. Ms. South Carolina, Caitlin Upton gets to blend some maps (maybe if the kids didn’t blend their maps, they would know where the US is). The Afro Ninja returns and kicks some ass. Tay Zonday’s leans away from the mic to breathe. The Numa Numa guy dances, immortalized. So many more… it’s like someone dumped ebaums or /b/ onto weezer and God touched it and it was good.

Shit’s brilliant. Not only is this going to be one of those videos that people will watch 20 years from now and get all nostalgic for YouTube in its infancy (and the days before net neutrality or w/e regulation they legislate, amirite?).

But right now, today, it’s viral as hell. 4 million views and counting in 5 days? This is how you do it, my viral marketing friends.