HUNTSVILLE, AL - Sunday, Huntsville police arrested Kenneth Manning, 56, for driving under the influence after his vehicle was stopped for an expired license plate.

Sgt. Mark Roberts with Huntsville police said Manning had a warrant as a fugitive from justice from North Carolina.

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• 09:57 >@BrianLynch: Heidi Klum is taking Seal's last name. Seal doesn't even take Seal's last name. #
• 11:50 Libertarian Socialism has been making more and more sense lately... #
• 16:00 I don't know why, but all of a sudden I'm in the mood for a burrito #
• 16:01 What? Seriously, I mention "burrito" and Matt Lisk: Diet Guru starts following me.. WTF? #
• 16:03 Now all I can think about is a Chapala Burrito with shredded beef, a warm tostada with sour cream, a flauta, and rice and beans... #
• 23:19 Nooooooo you're being ignorant! That's ignorant! #

1. Automatically searching for different forms of the same word. Every now and then, this can be useful, but more often than not, I have to (re)search with a minus sign on one particular form of a word that is dominating the results. For example, when I'm searching for a little-known Starflyer 59 fan-made tribute album called Translations, I did a search for "starflyer 59" translations. (Now, of course, this brought up about 1,000,000 results for lyrics translation, but that couldn't be helped on the server-side). That muddied up the results enough on its own. The real problem is that they have a song called "the translator," and Google is pretty damn sure that's really what I was searching for. I appreciate the ingenuity of this "feature," but I just find it almost useless. "Did you mean...", on the other hand, is a great feature, and I'd love it if they just suggested other forms that were commonly found in these pages, instead of assuming and returning what it thinks was my intended query. Having to search twice (and sometimes three times) with new queries like "starflyer 59" translations -translator is unnecessary and annoying. Edit: There is a workaround for this. See the edited comment on #3.
   
   
2. Correcting my "typing mistakes" for me. If I'm looking for the band mewithoutYou and I search verbatim for it, I'm gonna end up with pages that say "I had him give it to me without you knowing." Google didn't ask me if I meant "me without you," it just assumed. Once again, "Did you mean..." would've worked fine, but apparently most users are just plain too stupid to use that and need Google to babysit their search queries.
   
   
3. Finding pages that don't contain all of my words so as not to return zero results. If I want to find pages that contain both "the smiths" and "the cure," I'm unsure how to do that. If I type "the smiths" "the cure," it will inevitably return pages that contain just one of those bands on it. This wouldn't be a problem if they owned up to it and I knew that I had to use the AND operator, but they don't. In fact, if you use the AND operator, Google thinks that you're an old 85-year-old who last used gopher:// and lets you know that Google searches for all words by default. No you don't. And not only do you not do that by default, I cannot even find a way to force you to. Edit: They have now changed this. Using AND or the plus operator is now the correct way to search for all words. Why this isn't the default is beyond me. And look, if you can't find any pages that contain both, just tell me. I think I can take it.
   

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6. People often say stuff on the Internets that they would never say to your face. You are strongly urged to get over it.

Model			Processor		RAM	Hard Drive	Screen	Price	Shipping
Gateway T-6345U		Pentium Dual-core T3400	2GB	250GB		14.1"	$399	$0
Dell Vostro A860	Core 2 Duo T5470	2GB	160GB		15.6"	$419	$0
Lenovo IdeaPad Y450	Pentium Dual Core T4200	3GB	250GB		14.0"	$469	$0

1. Coffee: I don't like really strong, bitter coffee, and I don't like watered-down coffee, but I also probably couldn't tell you the difference between coffee from Dunkin' Donuts and beans imported from Switzerland that you ground five minutes before you brewed it. Maybe I haven't been into coffee long enough (5-6 years), but I just can't bring myself to be that passionate about it.
   
2. Cars: Safety and fuel efficiency are my primary concerns when it comes to cars. Horsepower, style, make/model (unless it is strongly correlated to my primary criteria), even features don't appeal to me much. Give me a car that gets 30 miles a gallon and will not leave me permanently injured should I have a wreck, and at least a tape deck so that I can plug in my iPod. Entire magazines devoted to custom cars just leave me wide-eyed and slack-jawed.
   
3. Mac vs. Windows vs. Linux: Seriously.

[A game developer is] prepared to be held up to “internet ridicule if that’s not the case”

( My fellow citizens: ) ( We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and non-believers. )

--Barack Obama, January 20, 2009