Are vampires more popular now than before?

By Shabbir | May 8, 2009

One of my friends on Facebook asked this, and the answer is yes.  Let's use Google Insights for search as a culture zeitgeist measurement. Google's data only goes back to 2004, which postdates most of Anne Rice's Lestat novels.  Vampire popularity appears to have declined steadily from 2004 through 2007.  In 2008 the rush to…

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How does the Google Transit website not have Muni support?

By Shabbir | February 10, 2008

I just tried to use Google Transit to find the easiest public transit route from my house to a place near the Castro and they don’t have Muni directions?  WTF?  I thought SF was over-represented in everything that google (and any other tech company) launches. Really odd, in my opinion.

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