Google's a drrrty beast

Here are some quick things.
Henry Earl: I heard about this guy before, but nowadays he really has more sense of purpose than anyone I know... Buy a t shirt. Best mugshot ever.

Data sets for emergency management scenarios in Minnesota - LOGIS - some sort of coordinated government IT system for MN municipalities. Weird.

I ran HongPong.com server log files through an analyzer for the first time since February and I found that there was a certain absurdity to the hits I get through Google. Site traffic is doing all right, although about 40% of it seems to be spam attempts.

As it is now, the old posts on this site have lots of comment spam, thousands of them, attached as dirty little digital barnacles to manipulate some sleaze merchant's search engine ranking. However, I let the practice go on for a while because it improved my own search ranking, and provided a certain surreal quality, a sort of natural accretion of Internet gunk.

In the long run this seems to lead some insane perverts (the "dark magician girl" searcher(s) were quite persistent) to my site, as well as some bizarre political and/or dirty searches such as:

• "kurdish sexi"
• "big penis dick cheney"
• "i salivate at the sight of mittens"
• "5 animal king fu schools in stillwater mn"
• "saddam hussein striping to nude in front of george bush on pics"
• "tbilisi girl dating"
• "salvia victoria hallucinogens"
• "poker addiction campus"
• "hamas organizational pattern structure"
• "ashcroft bacon whitehouse"
• "white house blurred satellite image defenses"
• and of course "xanax hell".

More in a bit....