Google Trends -- Hot Trends for August 4, 2007 at 7:10 PM

Here are a couple of the Hot Trends from Google Trends that I feel like writing about today.

Diane Downs: The majority of stories that come up are about Diane Downs, a mother convicted of shooting her children, killing one and paralyzing another. Then, there is a story and a blog post from the Wall Street Journal. The chick in the WSJ stories is a career coach that works in some big law office. What an unfortunate name coincidence. There is overwhelmingly more stuff on the killer chick than the career coach chick. Everybody searching the web for law-abiding Diane get sucked into stories about evil-mom Diane. I know that because another Hot Trend search is "small sacrifices." Small Sacrifices is a book by Anne Rule that covers this tragic story. Anne Rule, by the way, is an author of true-crime books and is a New York Times best-selling author.

Michael Biserta: OK. Here's the deal on this one . . . this dude, Michael Biserta, is a firefigher in Brooklyn, New York. He is featured on the cover of the FDNY calendar -- hot dudes in steamy poses. The calendar was a yearly fundraiser to help purchase equipment and pay for training for FDNY firefighters. I say was because due to an embarrassing DVD, the calendar is no more. This dude ended up on some DVD that is the equivalent of Girls Gone Wild but featuring men. He is totally naked showing his stuff. So, thanks to this stunt, they decided to stop doing the calendar -- don't want salacious materials associated with the FDNY, I guess.

He is a dork -- anybody that dances around naked on video will most likely be placed on YouTube or in major distribution via a sleazy video porn company. But, everybody does make mistakes. He is young, and I feel a little sorry for him that he is having to learn such a public lesson. I think, though, I feel bad for the FDNY. Now they are going to lose all this money they will lose ($150,000 was raised from calendar sales last year) because one guy didn't use good judgment. Help out FDNY and order one of these calendars. It's their last year doing this, so let's help them make it a big send off!

OK. That's all I've got to say for today. Have a great Saturday night!