WTC Destroyed on Google Trends and by Cookie Monster

The cover of Sesame Street magazine circa October 1976 depicts a giant Cookie Monster putting aside his favorite snack for a few bites of the Twin Towers. Sort of makes you think about how innocent the world seemed before the terrorists started blowing shit up, no?

Meanwhile, over at Google Trends, you may notice a more current depiction of the WTC being destroyed, but this falls under the blatantly insensitive category. Gawker explains that a user on "a site which posts pictures and invites often profane discussion, suggested his peers search on a string of icons — "✈ ▌▌" — and thereby launch it onto Google Trends, the search engine's tracker for swiftly rising Internet phenomena."