I’ve recently added Google Hot Trends to my RSS reader, which is a fun way to get a grasp of what people in aggregate are interested in at any given point in time.

Most of the time it’s sports, politics, news items. But last night a sudden spike shows up for “neurosyphilis” rocketing it to #1 in the chart. Unlike the usual items on hot trends there were no blog posts or news items about this, just a sudden interested in neurosyphilis. Which is kind of frightening and weird.