Just days after releasing its new “Go” programming language, Google is getting much flak for using the same name as another programming language by Francis McCabe and Keith Clark. McCabe: “I do not have a trademark on my language. It was intended as a somewhat non-commercial language in the tradition of logic programming languages. It is in the tradition of languages like Prolog. In particular, my motivation was bringing some of the discipline of software engineering to logic programming.”

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Hmmm. Somebody who has written a book about Google has written a top 10 things list about Google, specifically on the matter of lessons. Or 10 things Google has taught us. Like passion, focus, vision, customer is king, wah wah wah. NOT exactly new new, but it contains words like “frenemy” and “life is long but time is short.” Cute.

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Just some proof your favorite search engine is actually powered by a bunch of naughty old men.

Whoa!

“A client server database is where you rim another mans arsehole with your tongue and then force the full width of your girth in his ass.”

Just about the same as we’d explain it.

If you tend to often find yourself regretting whatever electronic missive you’ve sent to whoever, Gmail gives you exactly 5 seconds to change your mind and hit Undo. Beyond that, it’s shit hitting the fan, as usual.

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Largely unpublished, about 10 million images from the Life photo archives are being made available online for free — from 1750 to the present. You all have to thank Google for this.

{Image: A survivor still hospitalized in Hiroshima, showing arm and face covered with keloids caused by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.}

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You can always depend on The Google to enlighten us.

No matter what happens with the rest of the world, Google has barricaded itself behind some code-jutsu apparently impenetrable from zombies.

Gmail’s recently launched emoticons include a pile of shit adorned with a pair of flies. Pretty handy when you just gotta throw shit at someone.

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Google has launched its Project 10¹⁰⁰ , which is (and here we’re lifting directly from the page because we’re too goddamn lazy we couldn’t even scratch our own testicles) “a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.”

Aww. Ain’t the Google such a doll? So hit it up!

In September, Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy on television, will unveil a carefully guarded new project called “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy.” Unlike Family Guy, which is broadcast on Fox, this animation series will appear exclusively on the Internet.

The innovative part involves the distribution plan. Google will syndicate the program using its AdSense advertising system to thousands of Web sites that are predetermined to be gathering spots for Mr. MacFarlane’s target audience, typically young men. Instead of placing a static ad on a Web page, Google will place a “Cavalcade” video clip.

Advertising will be incorporated into the clips in varying ways. In some cases, there will be “preroll” ads, which ask viewers to sit through a TV-style commercial before getting to the video. Some advertisers may opt for a banner to be placed at the bottom of the video clip or a simple “brought to you by” note at the beginning.

Mr. MacFarlane, who will receive a percentage of the ad revenue, has created a stable of new characters to star in the series, which will be served up in 50 two-minute episodes.

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{Also: All things Google}