Many of us are old enough to remember the gas crunch of the 70s. Among other things, it was one of the factors that precipitated the rise in popularity of a peddle started two wheeled contraption called the Moped. Everybody and his brother had one. It held a full gallon of gas (if you were lucky) and had almost as much power and your grandfathers John Deer lawn mower. I remember as a teen in California, you could not go a block without seeing on chained to a light pole or putting on by almost faster than I could run.
Then thankfully, they disappeared as quickly as Rick Springfields career. People like to claim that gas prices came back down and it made more sense to drive cars and real motorcycles than sputter along on a Vespa that you had to start with peddle power. But the real reason was that people finally started seeing what they looked like on these things and realized the truth.
Mopeds are NOT cool and on the absolute best of days - a really great form on birth control. Use one as your primary method of transportation around town and see how many dates you get.
The perception of Electronic Arts (EA) in the gaming and technology industry is ... well, lets just say checkered. I have heard a lot of labels applied to this company for it's ability to bring to market really incredible games but with the reputation of contemporary sweat shop conditions for it's developers. Now we can stick at another label onto the EA logo - Pimps.
I got a call a few minutes ago from a self titled 'webmaster' asking me why all of his directory indexes on his website showing in Google search results. I did a search on Google for 'site:<his domain name> "index of"' and sure enough, I received a bunch of links that I could click on and then start navigating his sites directory structure.
It was about six years ago that I saw my first 
