Google Fight is the best (or worst, depending on your perspective) Web distraction I’ve come across in ages. (Curse you, Marcia!) It’s a very simple concept: you enter two words or phrases, then click for them to fight each other. Little animated stick figures engage in a brief fistfight, with one KOing the other, and the results appear; the winner is whichever keyword gets the most hits on Google. Simple, but totally addictive.

Among the things I’ve learned from Google fighting:

Good triumphs over evil.
Love beats money, though not by much.
Poor vastly outnumbers rich.
The Beatles best the Rolling Stones.
Wilco roundly defeats both Son Volt and Uncle Tupelo, but Jay Farrar whups Jeff Tweedy.
And alas, love does not conquer all. But reassuringly, time heals all wounds, or at least beats them up.

There are some interesting inconsistencies depending on wording and part of speech. For instance:
Dogs completely trounce cats, but cat beats dog.
Judaism loses out to both Islam and Christianity by a very large margin, but Jews are more popular than Jesus. (Joke, it’s a joke, don’t get offended.)
Christian outnumbers Islamic, but Islam handily beats Christianity.

Anyway, it’s dangerously distracting. As an antidote, I’m sending myself to Get Back to Work, which I learned about from Jamie’s blog and which I’ve actually been using quite a bit—for whatever reason (guilt, I think), it works well for me. Thanks, Jamie.