News You Can Bruise for 2009 May 30 (entry 0)

(1) Sat May 30 2009 19:03 Abridged Search History: I haven't cleaned out my browser search history in years, and every once in a while something bizarre turns up in the autocomplete. I went looking to see where the search data was so I could go through it properly. It turns out the browser search history for Firefox is kept along with other form autocomplete data, in [your profile directory]/formhistory.sqlite. I wrote a script (below) to dump the search history and went through it looking for fun. I found a lot of interesting stuff I'd forgotten about and stuff that's funny out of context, doing my part to add to other peoples' stock of Disturbing Search Requests. I thought I'd present some highlights, in the traditional Internet meme presentation of "one for every letter of the alphabet". Plus one number and one non-alphanumeric character.

• $39,000 and $45,000 compared to about $600 for a standard drill." So just take the Novocaine (pasted into the search box by accident)
• "1000 rat corpses"
• "An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting"
• "bringing down the house" fabricated
• "carolyn maloney" fisa
• "do not read beauty magazines"
• effect of ice sheets on ocean currents
• "Fiscal Pear"
• "groucho marx" "finnegans wake"
• "here comes the universe" (rejected title for Thoughtcrime Experiments)
• "iron man" lebowski invoice (I was right!)
• "james g blaine" "the state of maine"
• kermit cookie cutter
• learn to blow glass in brooklyn
• multi-nippled rotating
• "neccessary evil but still cool"
• "one leg is both the same"
• piraruchu
• q*bert joke book
• rice cooker as crock pot
• "santa claus is parents" (I think I was going to make a Soylent Green joke)
• two-player simultaneous play
• "under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License"
• "villian the villain"
• "where fun goes to die"
• xliterate
• "you are * and i claim"
• zombic hunch

Update: in case you were wondering, there were 4834 distinct search strings in my history.

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Comments:

Posted by Evan at Sat Jun 06 2009 12:21

now the nerd alert award goes to anyone who read 'kermit cookie cutter' and immediately thought of the transfer protocol instead of the muppet character ;)

(or the deluxe award to anyone who thought of both at the same time)