Google PageRank Update

So here's one of those things that only people in the search engine optimization world care about. Matt Cutts, head of Google's Webspam team, announced yesterday that Google would be updating their toolbar Pagerank. If you have the Google toolbar you may or may not know what Pagerank is, but long story short it's a great estimator of whether or not a page on the web you're looking at is actually relevant or just some well done spam site. Here's the blog post:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-pagerank-update/

Simpsons Quote Of The Day

When you've devoted your life to The Simpsons you often are reminded of random quotes when what was said has nothing to do with The Simpsons... like the person on Webmasterworld.com with the user name MrSparkle. I got a text message this morning that has nothing to do with this, but the first thing I thought of was this quote. So here's the first of what I hope to be a recurring feature, The Simpsons Quote of the Day:

My Homer is not a communist. He may be a Liar, a Pig, an idiot, a Communist, but he is NOT a porn star! - Abe Simpson (Season 9: Simpson Tide, Episode 3G04)

Spammer Gets 4 Years In Prison

Some guy named Robert Soloway was sentenced to 47 months in prison in Seattle today. Soloway apparently sent over 90 million e-mails in a three month span....

Here's the story: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/371772_spamking23.html

And speaking of spam, I've gotten some a couple really funny spam e-mails over the last couple days and as long as it's on topic I thought I'd put them up:

Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 2:13 PM
Subject: Bush Sells Louisiana Back to the French

Ronald Reagan Prime Suspect In Bank Robbery (SPAM LINK)

And from today:

Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:25 PM

Subject: Barack Obama Wins Ku Klux Klan Endorsement

Mccain Sex Tape Surfaces (SPAM LINK)

"Stock Footage"

Rocky Horror references always take me back to a simpler time, a time of cross-dressing, yelling things at movie screens, and throwing toast and/or toilet paper into the air and getting away with it. Here's another awesome webcomic I came across at work... people submit a movie/character and Michael May makes a cartoon about it. If the Rocky Horror Picture Show isn't your thing, or Shock Treatment for that matter, there are tons of hillarious movie parodies that kept me from actual work for at least an hour... I highly recommend it.

Compare Your Lives To Mine, Then Kill Yourselves.

$24.99 can buy a lot of different things, two and a half bottles of Fleischmanns Vodka... two gallon of gas.... or one officially licened Matt Groening-copyrighted Bender wind-up. If there's one thing I love more than Futurama, it's utterly useless memorabilia. Bender is probably the greatest cartoon character since Handsome Pete (look it up) and what better way to tell your co-workers that you're twenty-something that still watch cartoons than a big ass Bender toy for your cubicle? What I ask you, what?