It's time for the nightly peek at the referral log:

tik tok easy shop: The automated convenience store (or is it an illegal mega-vending machine?) in Washington. And wouldn't you know? It even has its own website! (According to it, the name should be spelled Tiktok, as a single word.)

who does the voice of the chihuahua in geico commercials and talking voice of the chihuahua in the Geico commercials: The voice is Hispanic comedian Carlos Alazraqui's. And in case you're wondering (and even if you don't), the canine body is Gidget's.

salon fuck: Uh... An exact search on "fuck salon:" porn sites. The top result for an exact search on "salon fuck:" A page from Suck's mailbag, "The Fish," where someone expresses ill-will to Salon. Odds are a "googleplex" to one he was looking for the former.

{Edited on September 28, 2002. Changed "ill-wish" for "ill-will."}

Group seeks ban of adult films from hotels
By Kitty Bean Yancey
September 23, 2002

Should the lonely traveler be prohibited the relief of onanism? Perhap not, but ask Cincinnati-based Citizens for Community Values whether the aforementioned traveler should be able to order, uh, "auxiliary material" in their room and ;the answer might be yes. CCV is a group seeking to ban all porn from hotels offering it as a pay-per-view service by employing that old litmus test, community standards. CCV has already succeeded in the Cincinnati area and, with a coallition of 14 other organizations, are now preparing to present a nationwide proposal at Washington.

[CCV President Phil] Burress says the coalition will urge Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Justice Department to crack down on hotel adult offerings. A Justice Department official who declined to be quoted says Ashcroft supports assertive enforcement of obscenity laws and the department is interested in national distribution of adult obscenity.

Though I'm not a, uh, "consumer" of this kind of in-room offerings, I don't think others should be excluded from, uh, their "fix." Hey, whatever floats their boat. Besides, they are watching in the privacy of their own rooms. Who are they harming?

...The pro-family groups say kids can access many hotel skin flicks at the click of a button.

Of course, the kiddies!

Say, don't many hotels ask at check-in if you want to have the mini-bar unlocked in case you want to fix yourself an in-room cocktail? Maybe they should do the same thing regarding the, uh, "hard stuff." Of course, the protocol to pop such a question would have to be worked out. "And would you like us to unlock the adult channel on your room's TV, sir?" No, still a little risqué for the lobby of a family hotel.

Producing this weblog is fairly simple. I just follow a formula deliniated by Umberto Eco several years ago:

I would scan into the computer around a hundred novels, as many scientific texts, the Bible, the Koran, a few telephone directories (great for names). Say around a hundred, a hundred and twenty thousand pages. Then I'd use a simple, random program to mix them all up, and make a few changes — such as taking all the A's out. That way I'd have a novel which was also a lipogram. Next step would be to print it all out and read it through carefully a few times, underlining the important passages...

Of course he did end it by saying "[then] I'd load it all onto a truck and take it to the nearest incinerator," but as you can see, it is quite simp[macro processing error, stack overflow, undefined variable (%charlyz%)]