[extropy-chat] a series of unfortunate non-events

[Damien Broderick]

You remember Lindy England, right?  Abu Ghraib? You might have noticed the 
sudden flash meme of people `doing the Lindy'. That's being photographed 
standing sideways with a cigarette (or pen) hanging out the side of your 
smirking mouth, one arm kinked across your body, thumb up, the other hand 
pointing at some scowling victim's groin. There was at least one big 
tasteless website with zillions of these pictures.

It's gone. Google knows nothing of it. (As far as I can tell.) No cache 
link. Same, by and large, with England herself, and those images. One or 
two in articles, NONE in Google Images. Jeeves knows a bit more.

Is this a whiff of Orwell? Google playing along?


Damien Broderick