Making a Short Story Long

In honor of the tallest man in the world meeting the shortest man in the world, we have today's matchup. Giant vs. Midget.

In the real world you would expect a giant to crush and humiliate a midget, right? Those are the cruel ways of the Earth.

But as you know not everything is as it seems. Often the electronically blinking world of digitalia shows us something new and disturbing.

Well forget about anything new on this one folks. It's business as usual here in the world of web searching as the giants stomp the midgets rather rudely.

(Thank you Lia for this wonderful matchup)

Owner of a Lonely Heart

Today's post is in response to my mood... sad. As mentioned in my last post, my great friend and coworker Angel has left for better things. While I couldn't be happier for her, it's pretty much bummed me. She's moving far away and it will be a while before I'm able to see her again. Thank goodness for email !!

OK, so I'm looking for any kind of happiness today and the web searches found it for me. Thankfully happiness beats out sadness by a good margin. I know it's out there, it just seems hard to find today. Maybe I need to head on over to Google and do some happiness searching myself.

Take This Job And Search It

Today's post is inspired by my great friend and (at this moment almost) former coworker, Angel. She's quitting today to move on in her life. So naturally this moment makes me think of getting a job and quitting a job.

Yes, we hear lots of stuff about people looking for jobs. You get friends asking you all the time, "Hey, if something opens up, let me know." And of course there are monster.com and hotjobs.com and yahoojobs.com so we know there is demand for jobs.

But what about quitting? You have to quit one to take another right? And so many people are tired of their jobs or complain about them. Get a job vs. Quit a job should be a truly close death match. Shouldn't it??

What a let-down !! Quitters you're letting me down ! We went from a true battle to this. Virtually no searching going on about quitting a job. Oh well, I know you quitters are out there.... Make some noise people!

Three-fer Thursday

Three beer Thursday brings us a heady battle of the suds.

The marketing dollars flow like wine for these three brands, attempting to get us to taste their frothy goodness. But we're above all that, right?

Of course we are. We're only about the ice cold reality of web searching. And what we find is Bud is truly the undisputed king. There are moments where Miller makes a decent showing, but overall it's not as close as I thought it would be. Especially surprising is Coors getting roundly stomped.

I'm guessing this equates to market share too, but that's for another time, another blog.

The Battle for Eco Earth

Here's one I was particulary curious about. With all the eco talk going around, just how serious are we about saving the world?

It turns out we're pretty serious. As you can see the Prius hands the Yukon a fairly large smackdown. Score one for Al Gore.

For more interesting details, see this link. Pay special attention to the states and countries listed. Even in the land of Texas, where SUVs are large and in charge, the Prius eeks out a win.

The world may have a chance at survival even yet.

A battle for the aged

I thought a good kick-off to this here silliness would be to match our good friend and blog namesake DEATH, against the arch-enemy LIFE.

The results are surprising. I thought the fascination with Death surely would overcome the desire by most to hold onto Life, but alas it was not to be.

In a not-so-close one, Life defeats Death in our opening round.

Check it out here

Let's Get This Party Started...

Have you ever wondered how much people search for stuff? I did. Then I had the most wonderful, awful idea...

The idea of matching stuff up in a battle to the death to see who or what had more search popularity. Then I added another beastly layer...

Share the carnage with everyone by way of a blog. One with black for emphasis.

So there you have it. The bonehead-simple reason for this blog. I intend to provide a new death match every day. Well, I'll probably take the weekends off depending on how I feel.

Feel free to wreak havoc with comments and suggestions.