As I mentioned the other day, I’m a big fan of Yahoo’s social bookmarking service called MyWeb 2.0 (even though I think the name is terrible). It’s a simple tool to bookmark, tag and save copies of web pages that you like for later retrieval.

Anyway something weird just happened with it. I opened up a blank tab in my web browser, FireFox, and accidentally hit my “Save!” bookmarklet which typically sends a page to Yahoo to save a copy of it. And it will show you other popular tags that other customers of the service have used to mark that same page. Apparently other people have opened an “about:blank” URL in FireFox and saved it as well. But it offered me a strange set of tags to describe this blank page:

• ein kerem
• israel
• jerusalem
• volunteering

It’s probably meaningless, but I looked it up and found that Ein Kerem is believed to be the birthplace of John the Baptist. I don’t know that I think this “means something” or whatever, but it’s curious what happens with technology when things slip through the cracks and when you accidentally slip yourself into them once in a while. On that note, here’s a cool older post on Boont Dusties about a guy who figured out a way to collect improperly addressed text messages.