April 26, 2005
Amaz-ing
Apparently in response to my April 19th joke, the top ten listing on amaztype™ zeitgeist, in the TITLE in ALL MEDIA category, is now (Apr 26, 2005, 22:10:00 GMT)
| 1 | LINGUISTICS | 2889 hits |
| 2 | SEX | 2559 hits |
| 3 | LANGUAGE | 1442 hits |
| 4 | FUCK | 1148 hits |
| 5 | TOM HANKS | 883 hits |
| 6 | FLASH | 482 hits |
| 7 | PORN | 442 hits |
| 8 | BOOBS | 393 hits |
| 9 | LOVE | 379 hits |
| 10 | HARRY POTTER | 351 hits |
Even more amaz-ingly, the top ten in the AUTHOR in BOOKS category:
| 1 | YUGO | 1444 hits |
| 2 | LEONARD TALMY | 591 hits |
| 3 | MARK LIBERMAN | 434 hits |
| 4 | NEIL GAIMAN | 327 hits |
| 5 | STEPHEN KING | 262 hits |
| 6 | ARNOLD ZWICKY | 249 hits |
| 7 | MERCEDES LACKEY | 160 hits |
| 8 | ILLIAD | 135 hits |
| 9 | SCOTT MCCLOUD | 127 hits |
| 10 | PICKOVER | 351 hits |
So who is this "Yugo"? Searching Amazon for "Yugo" in the Author field turns up, in order, Nuclear Reactor Safety Heat Transfer, by Dubrovnik, Yugo Summer School on Nuclear Reactor Safety; El triunfo de la gracia sobre el pecado, by Pedro Yugo Santacruz; The recycling of plastic wastes in packaging, by Yugo Suzuki; Semeynyye obryady i verovaniya karel, by Yugo Yul'yevich Surkhasko; and Hokkaido no shizenshi: Hyoki no shinrin o tabisuru, by Yugo Yul'yevich Surkhasko. Perhaps there's a signal there...
Anyhow, once past that obscure and perhaps-coded reference to "Yugo", there's Len Talmy! Go Len! I'm honored to be on a list with him, not to speak of Stephen King, Mercedes Lackey, Illiad and Scott McCloud.
Here's a short Illiad sequence with a lexicographical theme:
And here's Scott McCloud's site.
But I wonder why Patrick Farley isn't on the list? Or Rob Balder:
