248 - Google!

1. Find a Tattoo of a Weasel Today's post will include my favorite google searches that have led visitors to this site. Even though I think it is pretty funny, I won't include all the suckers that come here looking for The New Paris Hilton Sex Videos.

2. "The Secret" Positive Thought Christian My criticism of The Secret has really brought in a lot of viewers. Unfortunately, the majority of them are looking for the Christian angle on the subject. I doubt most of them care about the bad science for which "The Secret Crew" is responsible. I mean, come on, six days, virgin birth, talking snake, etc.

3. Sweet Operation Mincemeat By far, the largest number of google searchers that end up here are looking for images relating to Operation Mincemeat. Maybe because google images only supplies two pages of results. The real question is; why do so many people want to see pictures of a dead body after it has been recovered from the sea. Sickos!

4. Awesome Magician in Grocery Store My best guess on what he was looking for; Criss Angel: Grocery Store Magic.

Christian Art Prints with Hidden Messages and Cows This is my favorite one by far, and the one which made me think to compile this list. I see all of these topics gathered around the site so I understand why google sent this poor guy here, I just can't figure out what in the hell he might have been really searching for.

236 - The Secret

1. We Can Have Whatever We Choose "The Secret" is a feature length documentary that uses a series of interviews and dramatizations to inform viewers about how to use positive thinking to change their lives for the better. It has been getting pretty popular lately, with proponents popping up all over the web to bring the "good word" to the rest of us.

2. What Kind of House Do You Want to Live in? Sure positive thinking might actually be able to impact your life. That seems like a pretty sound philosophical concept. However, this "Law of Attraction" business takes a few extra leaps and tries to claim that positive "thought frequencies" can physically alter the world around you. They say if you think about what you want long and hard enough it will magically come to you. Tell that to an amputee; see how long it takes for his legs to grow back.

3. Do You Want to Be A Millionaire? That amputee comment might not be totally fair. Although at least one of the presenters in "The Secret" makes references to healing cancer, the main focus of the film is how to use "The Law" to gain material possessions. The only people getting rich because of "The Secret" are the presenters of the film. And it isn't by using the principles they proclaim, it is by selling books and DVDs and by setting up a multi-level marketing network (more commonly known as a pyramid scheme.)

4. What Kind of A Business Do You Want to Have? To make matters worse, they suggest their concept is a legitimate scientific principle. Of course, there is electrical activity within the brain. I'd love to see the research that suggests that those impulses can be emitted as powerful, reality changing, positive frequencies. All of the presenters in the movie are motivational speakers, metaphysicians, "visionaries," and life coaches. My research suggests that none of them are actually scientists.

5. Do You Want More Success? In my opinion, what these vultures are doing is preying on people who are desperate for any possibility of improving their lives. They are telling them "Buy our books and buy our movie. That is the only way you'll ever learn how to make your lives better." Then they give them a very simple philosophical concept wrapped up in a bunch of pseudoscience, Divinci Code-esque mythology, and flashy video editing. Please do not fall for this marketing ploy. Instead, just listen to the words of Perry Como, Nat King Cole and Rosemary Clooney, then apply their positive message to your life.

115 - with Links!

1. Lasik Again Studies show that having lasik surgery is actually safer than wearing contact lenses. So, if you are too vain to wear glasses, maybe you should consider taking the plunge.

2. Weird Scott I love mid-eighties homemade lip-synch videos, especially when they were made by people that I know.

3.Thorium Norwegian nuclear physicists have come up with a way to run reactors using the element thorium. The science is over my head, but it is reported to be a cleaner, safer, more efficient method than traditional nuclear energy production.

4. Lost City The remains of a recently discovered city underwater off the coast of India have been carbon dated to around 9000 BC, about 5000 years older than any know civilization. Of course much more research need to be done, but this discovery could totally screw up our ideas about human history.

5. The Nietzsche Family Circus "The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."