I don’t know if the buzz is new or old, but this is the first time I’ve seen this Aptera vehicle. Without exploring their site at all, I can proclaim that this is certainly the ugliest futuristic car ever envisioned. Who in their right mind would want to reserve one of these? I can only image that this is some sort of big hoax, to weed out the crazy granola hippies who would take an electric car, no matter how ugly and “modern” it is. If I ever see an aptera driving around town, I will be very tempted to ram them with my moderate MPG fossil-fuel-powered car.

I won’t say that I have anything against hybrids or electric cars, actually I quite like the concept of the technology, but I certainly can’t endorse something so terribly painful to look at as the aptera - I mean, The Jetson’s cars may have been more appealing than these.

Tell me what you think.

The Top 7 Trends from Google Trends for today, Tuesday March Eleventh 2008, (22:50):

1. lorenzo lamas
2. shayne lamas
3. aptera
4. steve gutenberg
5. bobby phills
6. wnit
7. billoreilly.com

The Top 7 Trends from Google Trends for today, Wednesday March Twelfth 2008, (22:00):

1. ashley alexandra dupre
2. david foster
3. catherine mcphee
4. lara flynn boyle
5. ashley youmans
6. kathryn mcphee
7. souffle

Six people I don’t really care to research, and a fancy food. I think that tonight, instead of writing about the top seven trends I’ll try something new, and find funny trends in the list of the top 100. Maybe this will be the beginning to a whole new era of blog trend posting, more likely, it will be lame - you be the judge.

mongolian death worm - sounds sexy, maybe the next killer insect that will be used by the media to scare the crap out of the US? What ever happened to the killer bees that were supposed to be slowly taking over the southwest from Mexico? My science teacher in junior high school told me that by now, they would be in Colorado, and the only safe place would be a VW Bug - she’s was a bit nutty. Maybe the killer bees were held at bay by the mongolian death worms? I’m not sure what they are, but I am sure that I am supposed to be afraid of them, for now I won’t worry about them.

baby with two faces - probably the next reality show on TLC - seriously, it seems that half the times I flip to TLC, there’s a show on about some sort of deformed person. Anyway, this must be yet another news story I missed. Maybe I should start reading CNN.com everyday… or maybe it’s more fun to not know what’s going on, I haven’t decided. Either way, baby with two faces is definitely an intriguing search term.

lipo in a box and woman on toilet for 2 years - related? Both disturbing search trends. I don’t really want to think about either of them, actually, so I’ll let your imagination take over from here.

IUPUI - Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. What a mouthful. Not only is the full name of the university impossible to say on your first try, the acronym flows off of the tongue as well as the child’s rhyme about Peter Piper. Who knows why it’s a top 7 trend today, as I imagine at least 53% of people type the acronym incorrectly on their first search.  Maybe they are going for some sort of worst university acronym world record?

Anyway, ignoring the difficult name of this #7 search term - I can find no clues as to why it is a popular search this evening, leaving me to guess. I can only conclude that this trend is a result of pure coincidence, with a large number of people slamming their heads, hands, and faces into their keyboards, sending google a garbled query that just happened to say iupui. I might be wrong, I don’t know.

I am torn; while I am sick of American Idol influencing my daily trends posts, I am at the same time happy to see “jai guru deva om” as the #1 search term tonight. I love The Beatles, and “Across the Universe” is a great song. While “jai guru deva om” might make good lyrics for a trippy 60’s song, I can’t help but imagine how it must be confusing for today’s kids, as they hear the song being butchered on American Idol. For the protection of children, I would like to suggest to the Fox Network that they censor all transcendental meditation mantras in the future. Who knows what kind of crazy Maharishi-led cult might be recruiting through subliminal television messages. The only way to be certain your children are safe, is to censor television, and that letter writing campaign isn’t going to start itself! Get to work!