We’ve Been Boon-Googled!
Google has apologized for a newly revealed privacy violation. People have already complained about being photographed and having their homes and cars exposed to criminals on “Google Street View”. But Google admitted that the cars they use to get the “Street View” in various nations had scanners that picked up wireless networks in passing homes and recorded websites, private e-mail addresses and passwords. After admitting they stored the info, Google apologized, claimed it was done by mistake and promised to erase the info as soon as they get the O.K. from each nation’s government.
Right… I’m sure Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has absolutely no interest in what people in his country are looking up on the Internet.
It’s not really a problem here in America since the government already has our personal information on file.
The most interesting info to surface was that Hugo Chavez is a huge fan of DWTS!
So this now explains the vehicle that keeps driving by my house with the sign on the side that says, “Google Street View Truck”.
But Neither Side Wants To See Brett Favre’s Private Parts
Turns out that Democrats and Republicans differ on more than politics. A new survey shows they don’t even like the same name brand products. The #1 favored brand of Democrats is Google; for Republicans it’s Fox News. The two companies didn’t even make the other party’s top 10. Also of note: Republicans like Aflac Insurance while Democrats prefer Progressive.
—The Republicans like Aflac because they want to hunt down the duck, and the Dems like anything that says it’s “Progressive”.
There are a few things that both parties like, including Fed Ex, UPS, Craftsman Tools, Cheerios and the History Channel.
— Libertarians in the survey opted for “Fruit Loops”.
— Incumbents from both parties like “The History Channel” because, come the beginning of November, a lot of them are going to be on it.
How Many Blondes Does It Take To Hold A Rally?
A Swiss University research team interviewed couples who’d been together for a year or two and couples who’d been married for 40 years or more. The older couples thought they knew everything about their partner’s taste in things like food and movies, but surprisingly they scored lower than the younger couples. Researchers theorize that as people stay together for a long time, they stop paying attention to each other and quit thinking they have to know everything their partner is thinking. Instead, they just take it for granted that their partners’ tastes are the same as their own.
They just figure there’s nothing left to talk about.
For people married 40 years or more, their idea of going to the movies is watching TCM.
After decades of marriage, women don’t have to ask their husbands what their thinking. They just tell them and the men nod in agreement.
After 40 years you enter the happiest stage of marriage, know as “dementia”.
Mouse Droppings
Being raised in a largely female environment won’t make a boy gay, but it won’t help him score chicks later in life. At least according to a new study involving rats. Scientists separated newborn rats into litters that were mostly male, mostly female or evenly divided. They found that being raised with a lot of sisters didn’t change the male rats’ sexual orientation, but it did make them grow up with less butch mannerism and less masculine behaviors, and female rats were less likely to want to mate with them.
When I was growing up, my next-door-neighbor’s sister was a lot more butch than her brothers.
Gail and I had didn’t have any sons, but with six girls in the house, our dog Panzer was a bit on the effeminate side.
Have a great day! We’ll see you back here Tuesday!
- Dick