Searching for phrases with glob patterns

Here’s a new search feature I found: glob patterns, e.g., using asterisks in place of words you don’t know.
Try this search: “one of these days alice * to the moon”
I found it works in both Google and Yahoo search, but not in Microsoft live search.

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Music for Total Chickens

munroe from tinymixtapes doesn’t like Rafter’s Music for Total Chickens, and I, for one, agree:
But fuck my dignity. I’m making a stand: This record is bad. It’s uneven, sparse to a fault, weird for the sake of being weird, and generally not entertaining in the least. Every time Rafter starts moving toward something worth hearing, [...]

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Re: New Flash and Flash-like technologies for mobile/embedded

Cringely claims that Adobe is making a move for the embedded and mobile device market.
Good GUIs are expensive and take time to perfect. Cringely says that it would save money for the companies involved if they could write their GUIs from just one platform and use Flash’s superior tools. It would also be nice if [...]

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