Posted by PZ Myers on October 31, 2007 I came across this interesting meme: google for the image that comes up first for your name. I was a little surprised by what “pz” returns, but I think it is entirely appropriate.
Really…you don’t want to cross me.
Doing an image search for “PZ Myers” returns a photo of me and Richard Dawkins first (which is OK!), and a picture of Cheri Yecke second, which I find terribly, horribly insulting.
I get a picture of me as the first image hit, then an icon from my homepage, then a picture that I drew. Then some silly mug from a blog where I left a comment. The web search is all about me. All.
I suppose it helps that there are only about fifteen Häggholms in the world and that I am both the only one named Petter and, among us Häggholms, the most computer savvy and the most active on the internet…
Googling my forename isn’t terribly exciting – all mugs, all bland. The full name is more appropriate…
- 5th photo is The Swedish Chef muppet, subtitled “Torbjörn Larsson said”.
- 7th photo is a fox with his catch. (Well, probably a tame fox waiting for its feed considering it is actually posing, but the name of this game is image-ination. 
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- 9th photo is a post card heckling creationists, linked to Pharyngula.
- 11th photo is Trophy Wife? #1. (The swedish queen.)
- 20th photo is subtitled “The Torbjörn Larsson effect begins …”. (In swedish.)
… but of course I’m not in there.
November 1, 2007
November 1, 2007