Google thinks I’m a senior citizen. Based on the websites you visit and the stuff you search for, Google infers your interests, age and gender, in order to show you more relavent ads (digression: It does this, in part, by having partner websites place a cookie on your computer; more on that here). Anyway, head on over to Google’s Ad Preferences page, and you can see what Google has inferred about you. It’s often less than accurate; for example, Google believes that I am a male above the age of 65. They got the gender right, but overshot my age by roughly 40 years (I guess I have drastically out-of-date tastes). With Google’s recent decision to allow all of its services to share users’ info with one another, it’d be nice if they had some idea of who we actually are. Or perhaps it’s better to remain shrouded in mystery? — Seth @ SFB
Google thinks I’m an 18-24 Female. Who’s surprised. Can’t we just go back to the old, less degrading privacy settings, Google?
Better than The Artist.
“The team from The Artist reacts to the live announcement of their 10 Academy Award nominations — with screams of joy, cheers, kisses and many glasses of champagne.
Sharing the happy moment are three-time nominee writer/director/editor Michel Hazanavicius, his partner Supporting Actress contender Berenice Bejo, Best Actor nominee Jean Dujardin and producer Thomas Langmann.”
Accidental Troll of the Day: A spelling bee participant has an excruciatingly tough time making out the word he’s supposed to be spelling. (Skip to 0:34.)
In the comments, he provides some additional context:
To all people: This is a real spelling bee one level down from Nationals. I wasn’t able to hear the word (speakers were pointed at audience and not us spellers) Many people failed hard and one tried to copy my epic troll(wasn’t trying to be just trying to figure out the word) but failed hard. This is real and was not staged. It’s [me] failing hard.
one The amazing silent film “The Artist” didn’t top the nomination list — “Hugo” had one more, despite the fact it was shut out of the acting categories.
two “The Tree of Life” must’ve confused the Academy: A strange message, “Nominees to be determined,” accompanies its Best Picture nomination.
three Maybe not a huge surprise, but Pixar’s “Cars 2” is the first Pixar flick that didn’t get a single nomination for an Oscar. Perhaps it’s because it sucked? Yeah, probably.
four And a surprise going the other way: Melissa McCarthy got an acting nomination for “Bridesmaids,” her breakout role. The question is, will she win?
