I was performing some local searches on Google when I came across this new SERP layout:

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As you can see, the OneBox appears in the middle of the results and it’s not the expandable/collapsible PlusBox. Other local searches still produce the more familar SERP with the local OneBox at the top:

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Via Google Blogoscoped:

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More funny suggestions for shows found in the comments:

• Are you smarter than a 5th Grade Programmer?
• Code or No Code?
• Trading Computers
• 404 (Lost)
• 01 2C (300, the movie)
• CSI: Open Source
• Survivor : 10 weeks without a computer
• NYPD #0000FF
• Desperate Housewives of Engineers
• Mouse Wheel of Fortune

I tend to ignore most memes because I feel like they are starting to get out of hand, but this one is a little different and it has the potential to greatly benefit all of those who get involved.

I ran across a post by Gary Lee, who is the creator of this train, which is basically like the familiar chain-letter-tag-you’re-it type meme with a multi-level-marketing-type-but-not-as-stupid twist added in. This one is based around the Technorati favorites feature.

Seen at Page 1 Solutions:

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Happy Friday!
—kid disco

We all know that the housing market has it ups and downs. Robert J. Shiller, an economic professor at Yale, created a graph of U.S. housing prices from 1890 to 2006:

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Looks like a roller coaster ride, doesn’t it? Well, Richard Hodge at SpeculativeBubble.com took the data and plotted it on Roller Coaster Tycoon 3… which resulted in this: