Interesting Google Trends

One of my favorite ways of feeling the pulse of what america is thinking and being influnced to, is by reading Google Trends.  This site is updated hourly, and shows the latest fast rising search trends.

Most of the time, its just pop culture references and such, but sometimes some interesting things pop up.

Todays Trends roundup:

Number 1. Montauk Monster Pictures and Number 40. Strange Creature Washes Ashore.

Aparently this strange looking creature washed ashore in Montauk, New York.  For a while I couldn’t remember why the name “Montauk” meant something to me.  Then I remembered that early radar experiments were carried out there at the AFB, and there is some strong evidence that much more sinister and secret experiments took place as well.

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Number 11. Airborne Toxic Event.

Even though this is just some silly band, there is obviously some keyword programming and conditioning going on here.  Precursor to a sinister event? Perhaps.

From wikipedia, the referring to the origin of the name.

The band takes its name from the postmodern novel White Noise, by Don DeLillo, which won the National Book Award in 1985. In the book, a chemical spill from a railcar releases a poisonous cloud, dubbed by the military as an “airborne toxic event.” This serves as a metaphorical device for the novel’s themes of mortality and media consumption, as the protagonist Jack Gladney is forced to confront the prospect of his own death.

Number 46. Green Blood.

Apparently some guy in Canada oozed green blood during an operation.  I have no idea what this means, but it is certainly strange.  Do lizards have green blood? Perhaps it was humans stumbling upon a lizard.  Or maybe this is some kind of conditioning.