Author Archives: Brooke Allen

Watson gets a funny Christmas call.

Dear reader: Any ideas? Holmes On 2019-12-25 12:27, watson@???.com wrote: My Dear Holmes, > >Today at precisely Noon I received a telephone call. As I usually do, I answered the phone by saying, “Dr. Watson speaking.” > >A woman said, “I have a great knock-knock joke… Start it off.” > > I said, “OK. Knock-knock.”Continue reading “Watson gets a funny Christmas call.”

Now Holmes gets a mysterious message…

Dr. Watson, Eight minutes after posting a story about the various mysterious messages you received, I got this message in response to a story I’d published under a pseudonym elsewhere. Name: Herminia H. Email: jerry.???@gmail.com Say something: GENERICS Time: December 21, 2019 at 5:08 pm IP Address: 164.132.51.91 Clearly someone is trying to tell usContinue reading “Now Holmes gets a mysterious message…”

Google Removes ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Clause From Its Code of Conduct

Apparently, now it is OK for Google to be Evil. See reporting here: Google Removes ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Clause From Its Code of Conduct Google says they are now committed to “doing the ‘right thing,’ which, presumably, gives them an out if a case can be made that the “right thing” to do is toContinue reading “Google Removes ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Clause From Its Code of Conduct”

Watson gets mysterious messages and Holmes responds.

My Dear Dr. Watson, I notice the following: – “MULTI-CHANNELLED” is misspelled. – The names of the people are unusual, and yet a Google search for the names yields what appear to be real people. – None of email addresses seem like ones that would be chosen by the people named. – Many of theContinue reading “Watson gets mysterious messages and Holmes responds.”

The Game is Afoot — Are we under attack immediately after we’ve launched?

Here is the message we received when we created our first post 4:25 P. M. on December 6, 2019.   At 9:58 P. M. that very same evening we got three mysterious submissions in a row, none of which contain any text. If you are reading this, please annotate the following questions with your thoughts:Continue reading “The Game is Afoot — Are we under attack immediately after we’ve launched?”

Our working hypothesis is: Google is evil (and becoming more so). NOTE: We are not saying Google is evil. As we said, this is a hypothesis, which Google defines as: “A supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.” So, if you want to makeContinue reading

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