The Internet was inaccessible for several hours today after a man in Webster Groves, Missouri typed the string “Google” into the popular Google search engine, triggering a circular reference (or “infinite loop”).

The infinitely looping search sequence consumed much of the Internet’s bandwidth until a team of Google engineers was able to stop it early this afternoon by replacing the proprietary Google search algorithm with a list of abandoned websites known as “Yahoo.”

Via JammieWearingFool:

There’s more proof that the administration is high on soda taxes as a way to curb obesity and fund healthcare reform. Two pro-free-market groups have discovered a $1 million stimulus grant to the University of Illinois to fund a study of the relationship between fat taxes and food consumption, diet quality, and obesity. Of concern is that the study results might be preordained.

A self-replicating, rapacious monster. I wonder if it will turn the world into grey goo.