GeoCities Web 2.0 Style (Google Page Creator)

So most people know that I am a huge Google fanatic, I use Google for almost all of my day to day Internet activity. Recently I was going through my Google account and came across a part of Google that I had forgotten about, it was Google Page Creator. Back in February 2006 Google launched page creator as a way for people to create their own custom site, much like GeoCities back in the 90s. At first it was a little awkward and not really the best that Google could do. Now, however, Google has greatly improved it, anyone who finds Blogger or any other blogging site easy will find making their own web site easy to. There aren't a lot of templates to choose from but just like any other thing on the web right now all you would really have to do is a quick Google search for templates and you would get thousands in 0.28 seconds. There are also a few other kinks that need to be worked out but it is a fun and easy tool that can be used to create a free web site. You can check out a site that I created the other night for all of my web based ventures here (I am still working on a lot of this).

Face in the Smoke

While I was looking up stuff for one of my other posts I came across this picture which I remembered from being circulated around in emails right after 9/11 with titles paragraphs about who this is Satan's face, and this is proof that Satan was behind the 9/11 attacks. Now I am not saying that Satan wasn't behind the attacks and I am not really talking about them right now, but what struck me from seeing this picture is how it looks nothing like what Satan would look like (not that I know what Satan does look like, but I do think that I can spot a picture that doesn't look like Satan), in fact I think that this smoke looks like a character in Viva Pinata more than it looks like the lord of the under world. But this struck me, that people read or see what they want in pictures, text, and just about any media really easy. This translates into the Bible, radio, people's statements (which we can see playing out right now in the politics between Obama and Clinton). Looking at this picture I can't help but start to think what have I gotten caught up in, what have I started to see that isn't really there?

On something a little bit lighter when I was writing this post I decided to go on Google Trends and search Obama, Clinton. Check out the results for the last twelve months here.