It started with a slew of religious folk re-tweeting the phrase “Know God… know peace. No God, no peace.” “No God” then became the #1 trending topic, overloading the site.

Twitter’s explanation didn’t seem to get through to many offended Christians who were left wondering how “No God” became such a hot topic.

UPDATE @ 4:15 PST: I wonder if the frequent site overloads are what led Twitter to remove “No God” from the trending topics list?

UPDATE @ 4:50 PST: I think Twitter answered it for me:

It appears that Twitter is practicing a little selective censorship. Not good.

Can you spot the difference between these two images? These are screenshots of Microsoft’s American and Polish sites, respectively. The content is identical, save for the Polish translation and the horribly amateur Photoshop job (If the first glance isn’t funny/terrible enough, take a look at the hands in both photos).

Spot the Difference:

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American site. Original Image.

Microsoft Poland – Curiously Photoshopped

UPDATE: Microsoft has apologized. Whomever they’ve got working on their Polish site still sucks at Photoshop (or maybe it’s just web design in general), though:

After reading an article about how Microsoft’s new “Bing” search engine is gaining in popularity since its launch, I decided to finally try it out.

I decided to use the exact same search string in both engines so that I’d get an idea as to which one would give me better results.

Being a smartass, the string I chose was “why is windows so expensive.”

Search Results:

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Google search: results appear unfiltered.

Bing search: playing dumb?

Hmm. Microsoft apparently tried to help correct my grammar by replacing “is” with “are,” and suggested I wanted to know why vinyl windows were expensive. Maybe Bing’s just dumb?

Nope. Bing had the audacity to replace “windows” with “Mac” and “OSS” in the search string. Mac and Open Source, of course, being the two main threats to Windows’ domination of the PC market. That seems pretty dishonest, doesn’t it?

Now, I realized that this wasn’t 100% scientific. There was no incriminating question for Google to choke on and avoid. Maybe all search engines did this. So, I tried another search string to even things up a bit: “google privacy concerns.”

Search results:

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Google search: again, results appear unfiltered.

Bing search: some different results, but to be expected with a different search algorithm

Conclusion:

Google doesn’t seem to filter out negative press for the company in its search results. Microsoft does, shamelessly. I think I’ll be sticking with Google.

Today my wife and I received our new Palm Centro phones from Sprint via UPS. She got the “old” Centro in pink. I got the newer model in green.

Anyway, new phones. I decided to set up the Palm Desktop software so that I could sync my contacts, calendar, etc. with MS Outlook. Everything appeared to go smoothly. Then the software didn’t want to let me connect to my phone properly. It seems that the CD Sprint sent was lacking a program for Vista compatibility. So I tried a reinstall with a newer version downloaded from Palm’s site and got this message:

That doesn’t look good

Interestingly enough, everything worked perfectly after this little incident, for those curious.