Google Image Search Games

The Cars of the Beast

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Google is playing games with you.

People from all over the world are arriving at this post from a Google Image Search for "The Cars of the Beast" or similar. Folks click on the thumbnail image of one of the photos you see in the slideshow. But instead of the pictures in my post, Google sends them to a picture of my granddaughter or to a Bob Dylan Video. Not exactly what they were looking for.

It's all part of the Great Google Conspiracy and now I'm on to them. Follow the link under the slideshow to see the post and learn a bit more about the cars. Or, depending on how you got here, pull your scroll bar down two posts.

Watch Google search play games with the Cars of the Beast at Search Me, WTF? Google

Paranoid Blues Birthday

But something is happening here and we don’t know what it is do we Mr. Jones? ... "there must be some way out of here" said the joker to the thief. ... Keep a clean nose, watch the plain clothes and you won't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. ... But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, All the pigeons gonna run to him.

My apologies to Bob Dylan
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The Cars of the Beast ?

Seen on opening day at the Dubai Autodrome

Bad in Black, Lamborghini 666

I was told that these cars are owned by Dubai's Sheik Maktoum. He drove a U.S. made Viper in the feature race on that opening day. I don't recall where he finished. I thought it was a bold and gutsy, in your face move, to put the "Number of the Beast" on the cars. Classy. And the Viper was nice too.

Porsche Carrera GT 666

In Dubai auto “number plates” are sold by auction. Highly sought after low numbers and auspicious numbers can bring more than a million dollars.

Millions Spent on UAE Car Number Plates 18 February 2008

In Dubai more than $US7m was spent on the car number plate bearing the number 98. Of course that was small change compared to the $US14m spent by one Emiriti in Abu Dhabi on a number plate bearing the number 1.

Porsche Carrera GT 666-2

It's my guess that the license plate numbers costs as much as the cars. American's might pay an extra $100 for a vanity plate. In the U.A.E. it's a much bigger deal. Millions can be spent for that special number. Check out these articles from Dubai's Gulf News:

Dubai number plate auction generates Dh41m ($11.162 million U.S.)

A number of two-digit numbers, 89, 43, 61 and 78, were on offer, 43 and 61 toping the list by generating Dh2.3 million ($626,ooo U.S.) each. The four numbers were sold for a total of Dh11,14 million. ($3.033 million U.S.)

Dubai holds special number plate auction

Dubai: Number Plate G 16 broke all records of Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) special number plates auction when it was sold for Dh5 million ($1.36 million U.S.) Friday, according to RTA.

You can read an earlier post about my day at the Dubai Autodrome in A Day at the Races Check it out.

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Update: April 16^th, 2009

As of this date, this post has now been viewed by folks from 100 different countries. Check it out at And Haiti makes 100 on LostBob's Blog.

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One Day in the Life

"gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Blagoveshensky Cathedral, Kazan

Alexander Solzhenitsyn died yesterday at age 89.

The obituary in on BBC’c Web Page is worth a read.

From the Guardian

Solzhenitsyn's wife, Natalya, told Interfax that her husband, who suffered along with millions of Russians in the prison camp system, had died as he had hoped to die.

"He wanted to die in the summer, and he died in the summer," she said. "He wanted to die at home, and he died at home. In general, I should say that Alexander Isaevich lived a difficult but happy life.

His book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of my all time most memorable reads.