Your day according to Google: As expected, Tiger Woods and his alleged mistress Rachel Uchitel still dominate cyberspace -- especially considering Tiger continues to willfully throw gasoline on the fire, this time by bowing out of his own golf tournament this week -- but enough outliers are thrown into the Google Trends mix to ensure an interesting Tuesday.
The chatter today will be about how a beauty queen was killed in the pursuit of a perfect butt, whether Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome is real or fake, and President Obama's decision to deploy more soldiers to Afghanistan.
Let's take those in order: Solange Magnano, former Miss Argentina (pictured), died during cosmetic surgery designed to make her look better in apple-bottom jeans. Surfers eager to decide how necessary such surgery was put the search for her photos at the top of Google's search heap this morning. Her death sparked a related search for the term "glutoplasty."
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome saw a spike in searches last night, no doubt a result of the A&E network's season premier of "Intervention," which featured the most stone-crazy addict to date, Linda. Linda's addiction to fentanyl "lollipops" was the result (according to her) of suffering from EDS, which causes joints to dislocate. It's a legitimate illness, but one that Linda seemed to have concocted whole cloth in order to justify her drug use (and to milk her family for half a million dollars and eight years of slave labor from her brother).
And finally, many reports from Parris Island, South Carolina, where U.S. Marines prepare for a new surge of troops into Afghanistan. Obama has called for an expedited deployment of 30,000 troops over six months to the region, bringing the total of U.S. troops there to about 100,000. The plan was leaked ahead of a formal announcement by the president tonight at West Point Academy.
Chirpier fare includes the news that NBA superstar Dwight Howard has dared his baby mama, Royce Lyndsay Reed, to so much as utter his name or risk a huge legal penalty -- a judge has ruled that for Reed, Howard is now "he who shall not be named" after she called him a deadbeat on her blog. Photos (or illustrations ... it's hard to tell) of Don Cheadle in his Iron Man 2 getup have been leaked; he looks like something from a Saturday morning robot cartoon. Sam Zell, real estate tycoon and wannabe media mogul, called fellow billionaire Wilbur Ross a "savant" for predicting a crash in commercial real estate, causing Wall Street to go all a-titter at what passes for a verbal bitch-slap among rich white men. Savant is hardly an insult, but Zell used it to mean "egghead," at least according to the Wall Street Journal's interpretation. Chelsea Clinton is engaged to Marc Mezvinsky.
Last but not least, if you hoped for some relief from holiday consumerism now that Cyber Monday is behind us, Google Trends reminds us that some are intent on keeping the spend-a-thon alive -- the phrase Cyber Tuesday is in the top 25 search terms, and it's trending upward.
About this column: Like a horoscope, but applicable to anyone with an Internet connection, Daily Cup O'Google tells you at a glance what conversations will dominate your day and shape the next 24 hours, based entirely upon the barometer of the most frequently Googled search terms as of 8 a.m. EST.
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