Thursday January 7
 
11:18
 
Dr Slaughter

Great page of funny names. Can you believe people are really called…

• Bonnie Beaver
• Chip Munk
• Dick Face
• Dr Slaughter
• Sharon Fillerup

Don’t miss the “Longer submissions” at the end:

Meg Boner sent me this: “This one is real – it’s mine. My maiden name was Meg Ann Childress. Nothing exciting. Well, I married Alan Boner, and now I am Meg A. Boner!”

Thursday January 7
 
10:13
 
Yaeba

A new search term suddenly became popular on my blog yesterday – Yaeba. I mentioned Yaeba before on my post “The blog for Japanese girls with bad teeth“. Why the term should suddenly become popular now, I don’t know.

Wednesday January 6
 
11:02
 
Cute Japanese Girl

For comparison, the search terms that bring people to this blog:

Today
cute japanese girl
canon eos 5d mark ii nikon d700 comparis
finepix real 3d w1 sample
panasonic gf1 raw samples
louis vuitton men wallet
hanging knickers
shin okubo sex
them windows 7 tokyo
popcorn hour upscaling
canon eos-1d mark iv compared to nikon d

Yesterday
japanese girls
panasonic gh1 focus points
nikon d90 purple fringe
japan girl
tamron 17-50mm vc
g1 lightroom 2 sharpening setting
tamron 17-50mm vc review
difference between d700 and mark 3d
nikon d3s vs canon 1d mark iv
lumix gh1 14-45

Sex, cameras, and Japan. You bunch of camera wielding perverts :)

Wednesday January 6
 
10:43
 
Byron Dorgan?

I stumbled up Google trends “hot searches” page. The most searched phrases in the states at the moment are:

1. byron dorgan
2. eclipse script leaked
3. randy johnson
4. chicago executive airport
5. angelyne
6. rory markas
7. royal air freight
8. upillar
9. chicago plane crash
10. matt holliday
11. orange bowl kickoff time
12. bill hall
13. nexus one vs droid
14. casey kotchman
15. ye li
16. jet crash
17. new google phone nexus one
18. jon reep
19. dahn yoga
20. minneapolis airport

What is the implication of Byron Dorgan being the #1? Is it that Americans are seeing news about him and don’t really know who he is? I certainly didn’t. But after seeing news about him, I wouldn’t be inspired particularly to search for him – so there must be more going on than that.

Randy Johnson. Snigger.

What happened to the days when free, sex, porn, and mp3 were in the top 5?

Looking at the UK hot topics:

1. google nexus phone
2. mike shanahan redskins
3. casey johnson and tila tequila
4. toyota
5. body scanners
6. sam mendes
7. tna
8. ces
9. american idol
10. dorgan

I can’t believe an American sport is #2 hot topic in the UK. That’s just wrong.

Monday January 4
 
18:22
 
Happy New Year!

I celebrated 1/1/2010 by seeing Avatar in 3D. Great film it was – but if you’re going to watch it in 3D, bring some decent lens cleaner to get the grease of the specs.

Watching the film in 3D definitely added “depth”, but it was also strange. The way we normally “see”, at any given instant we can switch our focus from something close to something far and it’s the item we’re looking at that is in focus. With 3D film, the object in focus is the one that the camera chooses – even if we look at the background, it doesn’t snap into focus.

Seems obvious but it’s a bit weird having to search for the point in focus each time the scene changes. Some point in the future, we will have the technology where the entire depth of the scene can be recorded in focus and our eyes can switch between the item in focus. People will look back and think this 3D is primitive – but it’s still cool, for 2010. Cool enough to hold me back from getting an LCD TV until 3D TV is out.