Popular culture meets code

It's always a bad sign when I have to start by explaining why I did something.

In this case I was trying to take a break from revision and due to caffeine levels I couldn't manage to just zone out in front of the TV.

So I caught up on some mailing lists and I saw various people looking up interesting geek phrases in Google Codesearch, such as "this is a security hole"  and "here be dragons".

While interesting, it wasn't shocking that code contained technical/geek phrases in it - what would be more suprising is if code contained "up to the minute" phrases inside it, such as the phrases in the Google Zeitgeist.

So as clkao had been boasting that he implemented Shoutwithus in a weekend (he really hadn't been boasting, but it makes for a better narrative) so I decided to implement a Google Zeitgeist to Codesearch page in a lunchtime - it actually took a little longer than an hour but as my boss knows I have a slightly elastic definition when it comes to lunch (only kidding Simon) ;-).

So I give you, Google Zeitgeist -> Google Codesearch.

Unfortunately it's quite boring, but one of these days Linux distro's will realise the value of metasyntactic variables based around Paris Hilton, and then people will be clambering for this page.