h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've been looking for a ship named Higgs, to see if it HAS a boson


http://www.wisegeek.com/on-a-ship-who-is-the-bosun.htm

The calm before the storm

it'll leave a black hole in the accounts if they don't find it

Sorry, ITIWBS. Why are you ?

Must have been something he ateperhaps?

Actually, it was that thing about rock groups reducing the search engines to to chaos by means of sheer volume of spamming, making it impossible to research themes of other kinds names expropriated for the benefit of flash in the pan rock groups.

A case in point, I was trying to turn up historic and biographical information on St. Tammany, the native American chief and founder of New York City's Democratic Party Organization, whom, as it happens, is pictured on American coinage issues more often than any other single personality, 'the Indian head cent' for example, is properly 'the St. Tammany cent' (that is a portrait of St. Tammany), just as 'the buffalo nickel' is properly 'the Sitting Bull nickel'.

I wasn't able to bring up even one listing pertaining to anything except one of those flash in the pan rock and roll bands.

Considering that their spamming is going to be alienating to anyone attempting research on the proper usage of the name expropriated (St. Tammany, Tammany Hall*), I frankly wouldn't wish the advertising concern behind that on anyone I liked.




*Actual name employed by the rock and roll band.

Too many Tammany hits?

...a flood of spam and not a single item on the history I was interested in surfaced from the flood...

Molokai has the world's highest per-capita consumption of Spam.

Wonderhow fastthey could get a tin of Spam to go around thier partical collider and would they report fritters as their findings

I think they would just fritter away their time doing that.

Ah, but, at least they would have something to eat at the end of it, as against to eating their own words like they did last time

wonders if they've got that clock fixed yet

Harry Harrison used a similar idea in one of his sci-fi stories, only it was a slice of cheddar cheese instead, leading to the discovery of 'cheddite', which in became the basis of of an interstellar ftl system enabling a series of rollicking adventures with miscellaneous alien species.