[link|http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist_nov03.html|Here].

{sigh} Linux: ONE percent.

No wonder Win98 cutoff was extended, given the 27% VS Extra Pee's piddling 42% from, apparently the fucking preloads. I wonder.. how many actual indiv. sales of XP replaced 98?
(and wonder too: how many ever heard of 98-lite, even yet.)

All browsers on an asymptotic date with death, save the execrable IE6; sorry zIWEers: we be misfits entirely Unrepresentative of the unwashed ovine masses.

OK - not sorry.

As for Oz topics:

1. australian idol

2. rugby world cup

3. eminem

4. christina aguilera

5. qantas

6. halloween

7. britney spears

8. orlando bloom

9. finding nemo

10. delta goodrem

But saved from opprobrium laterally via UK, for their sustained interest in [link|http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=jenny+agutter| Jenny Agutter!] she of Walkabout and a role in Logan's Run (surely an adjunct plan for LA in 2030, as diagrammed in Blade Runner)

UK pulls farther ahead of course - for not one US pop-airhead in the top Ten, while most Euro countries sport at least one of our Corporate marketing products. Gooo Brits -->


Yup, Our Stuff permeate$ Everything. The World's on a ^r o _{l l.}

I'm presuming that's the zack-equiv of Murican Idol (?)

A friend made me a tape of one show, so I Could See WTF it's about.
The only word which came to mind, following some caterwauling for some minutes (and the expressions on the faces of 'the panel' - forced to listen) was

Execrable.

*THIS* is Entertainment - World Class, 2004 ??

Shit, it's Worse than I'd imagined
and I'd imagined: Pretty Bad.

Pity.. the Oz-merchants ain't got no cuth, either, apparently.
Condolences,


Ashton,
crank - not easily mesmerized by Puuuuure Crrrrap
- and there's only a tad of the Scottish somewhere back there in the couplings.