The World Around You

What people are searching for today:

1. surfin bird

A song performed by The Trashmen in 1963…combination of two R&B hits…not sure why it is the biggest search item…again, must be TV related.

2. chocolate starfish

Evidently a reference from “The Girls Next Door”…”I molded my a**, so I could call it ‘chocolate starfish.’ It was white chocolate, and I put a dark chocolate little thing in the middle.”

3. sma

Remnant from last night…referring to Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a family with two girls who have SMA was featured on Extreme Home Makeover.

4. metro station

The band, whose lead singer is Miley Cyrus’s brother Trace, will be touring with the Veronicas next year and he did a photo shoot with the family for Seventeen magazine.

5. bird is the word (see #1)

6. nobel prize

3 Europeans have been announced as the winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine.

7. wwi

Appears to have to do with “Worldwide Investment”

8. trace cyrus (see #4)

9. sma disease (see #3)

10. entourage season 5 episode 5

Google Trends

A TV-show themed list tonight (Apparently we’re all sitting in front of our TV’s with our laptops on Sunday night…)

1. sma
2. sma disease
3. spinal muscular atrophy

Another bump from Extreme Makeover Home edition…a family whose two daughters suffer from Spinal Muscular Atrophy were featured on tonight’s episode.

4. Dennis Leary

Bart found Denis Leary’s cell phone on the Simpsons this evening and made crank calls.

5. carbon offsets

Apparently this was driven by TV too, but can’t find the reference…60 Minutes perhaps?

6. crohn’s disease
7. dalton fury

No, apparently Dalton Fury is the pseudonym for a retired Army major who spoke to 60 Minutes tonight about the hunt for Bin Laden…so again I ask, why carbon offsets?

8. sma syndrome
9. easy bib

Apparently this was an attempt by people to locate an easy bibliography maker…things that make you go hmm.

10. david reimer

David Reimer was featured in a TV movie called “Born a Boy, Brought Up as a Girl”.

Google Trends.