At 09:32 AM 1/11/03 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Ronn! Blankenship... > There's certainly a wide, wide world of them out there, just > waiting to be > discovered by the unsuspecting web surfer . . . Oh, yes. My granddaughters, who are 3, wanted to look for pictures and videos the other day. "Barbie" wasn't too bad, though some people do unusual animations with Barbie dolls. But that was *after* I made the mistake of searching for bears (they were interested in polar bears). Lots of pictures of hairy animals appeared, but an awful lot of them were homo sapiens. Luckily, they were thumbnails and I clicked very rapidly. Now, I will be sure to use Altavista with its filtering turned ON.
Unfortunately, filters (all of them, not Altavista in particular) can also block out the very thing you are searching for, such as information on BREAST cancer or for records of NAKED-eye astronomical observations made in pre-telescopic days.
Around four or five years ago, Jack Horkheimer of the planetarium in Miami changed the name of his five-minute weekly PBS program that tells what of interest can be seen in the sky in the coming days from "Star Hustler" (he was comparing himself to a salesman for astronomy) to "Star Gazer" because his web site was getting a lot of unwanted traffic from teenage boys searching for Larry Flynt's web pages . . .
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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