Michael Stusser is a Seattle-based free-lance writer and game inventor.  His first book, The Dead Guy Interviews: Conversations with 45 of the Most Accomplished, Notorious, and Deceased Personalities in History (Penguin Publishing) was just released to critical acclaim.

 

Stusser says: "The through line in my work is a desire to find new ways to increase dialogue about the critical issues of out times (including invasive and overly-time-consuming technology), empower individuals to make change, and, ultimately, take back the democratic process.  And if they crack up along the way, even better...""

 

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Next @ Google Labs

by Michael Stusser

 

“Google has just introduced a new Google Labs experiment called Google Social Search, a way to find online content authored by friends and personal contacts.”

                                                                                    —Information Week

For immediate release:

 

Google Labs, the in-house workshop that allows developers room to test the next great thing in search-related technology, has rolled out apps such as Google Earth, FastFlip, Google Dashboard and Google Music. The following, though still in Beta-versions, will appear on a desktop near you in the very near future:

 

Google-Fridge: Search the contents of your own icebox without leaving the couch! Google-Fridge also has handy expiration date searches and can analyze up to 300 types of bacteria and mold. Is that meatloaf or a mushroom? We got any Ben & Jerry’s left? With Google –Fridge, you’ll know!

 

Googo-Plasty: With Googo-Plasty, plastic surgery is a virtual certainty! Simply upload photos of your troublesome body parts, and have hundreds of virtual procedures applied immediately. Find the nose or butt lift you like? Just click the GP icon and receive competitive pricing from LA’s finest cosmetic docs. Use the Boob-Tube feature to send images of the soon-to-be new you to friends and family!

 

Google-Teen: With Google Teen, parents can search their kid’s backpacks, bedrooms, Facebook pages, text messages, and school lockers with one swift click of a mouse. Using hidden cameras, invasive memory searching (developed by the George W. Bush administration) and GPS technology, Google-Teen is better than a urine sample, and far less messy! If anybody’s going to be a predator, it’s you!

 

Moogle: Why go to the supermarket to find a juicy cut of sirloin when Moogle can search cows in your area, even mapping the loins and chops in juicy 3-D? Marvel at the marbling, then have that T-bone delivered to your door in minutes.

 

MyGoogFace: Tired of keeping up with Facebook, MySpace and Twitter accounts? With MyGoogFace, the application does the friending for you, seeking out new virtual pals based on your preferences and even communicating with them using previous messages and photo-shopped pics. Make thousands of new friends each day – and never have to pay attention to any of them!

 

Kugel-ah: Troll ancient archives for Kosher Jewish delicacies from the old country and find the perfect meal to accompany circumcisions and bar mitzvahs. From Ashkenazic borscht to z’roa, just keep pork and shellfish out of the (search) box, and bang out the bagel recipes ASAP.  And would it kill your goyishe-wife to learn a few Jewish meals? Now call your Mother with the good news and pass the Kreplachs!

 

Sue-gle: Tired of hiring lawyers to file those constant workers’ comp suits and restraining orders? Use Sue-gle to fill out the paperwork in two easy auto-filling steps. Stalkers, ex-wives, mega-corps, Steven Spielberg and co-working-sociopaths—you’ve been served with Sue-gle!

 

You-gle: The Internal Cavity Search. With this innovative scanning feature, users can search their own innards to identify potential health hazards and accidentally ingested objects. (If only Richard Gere had access to You-gle back in the day!) Colon checks out, the arteries are fairly smooth—but WHOA—that looks like a dark spot on the ol’ liver! I better call somebody.

 

Google-Porn: Finally a search we can use on a minute-by-minute basis. Simply type in the type of porn you like—tall, Asian, MILF, tied up, hermaphrodite, vintage or schoolgirl—and Google-Porn will narrow your search to the 123,448 videos that exactly fit the bill. What’s that? Google already does that?

 

At GoogleLabs, we’re bringing the world to your finger-tips, and making sure you never have to leave the house. Your search – is over.

 

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