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As you can now see, the August hush that fell over kenspeckle.net was due to massive hustle and bustle on the back end. I've changed web hosts (to Blue Host), upgraded to Word Press (actual blogging software rather than the very simple perl script I started out with!), and redesigned to this lovely new template, based on WP Andreas07 0.2, which was originally designed by Andreas Viklund and coded by David Peralty and Stephen Lau.

To celebrate, here's the long-awaited release of top-secret kenspeckle.net search data. All searchers will remain completely anonymous and un-stalkable, no matter how much AOL stalker wants to make another database.

Nerdy Searchers

I wish I could help these three. Unfortunately I can only guess at the pronounciation of Theodore's last name (I'd say "bee-KEL" myself) and the etymology of busybody, according to the OED Online, is ultra-simple:

[f. BUSY a. 5 + BODY n.]

The fifth definition of the adjectival form of busy, mind you, reads:

In bad sense: Active in what does not concern one; prying, inquisitive, meddlesome, officious; restless, fussy, importunate. Cf. BUSYBODY.

As for the Agamben stalker: If you had to google, he's probably not waiting to hear from you!

Satisfied Searchers

How could the first two searchers have been any more satisfied? Together, they found a very humorous Scottish word meaning, well, conspicuous, and an extremely thorough etymology thereof. I'd kind of like to know if the third searcher was the proofreader who realized his/her mistake or another blogger hoping to be the first to break wheat thins scandal, but either way, this was clearly a successful search.

Still Searching

So sorry…gentlemen?…but what you're looking for simply cannot be found at kenspeckle.net. Move along now.

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5 comments »

  1. grammarian said,

    for the last bunch, would s/he have found what they were looking for if the search was:

    p@®@/1d /\uT©@$3 4@©|

    comment posted on August 30, 2006 at 23:23

  2. grammarian said,

    guess that didn't go as planned "

    comment posted on August 30, 2006 at 23:26

  3. lauren said,

    Speaking of paranoid, I'm not sure why you're *cough* afraid *cough* of attaching your name to that comment. Like, oooo, the anti-1337 police are going to come get you.

    comment posted on September 1, 2006 at 23:29

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    comment posted on October 25, 2006 at 22:11

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