The Moving Finger blogs; and, having blogged, Moves on: fortunately my Piety and Wit Can lure it back to cancel half a Line, and all my Tears wash out a Word of it Thank goodness for delete functions.
Internet Quotes
I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she’s too young to have logged on yet. Here’s what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say ‘Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from […]
The Internet is as persistent as it is potent, an indelible and uncontainable presence in the culture. In fact, the Internet isn’t separate from the culture at all; it “is” the culture. All the trash, flotsam and spillage of our society gets its moment there, where the tiniest obsession has its spot on the shelf, […]
It is sometimes said that enough monkeys typing on enough typewriters will, given enough time, produce the entire works of Shakespeare. The usenet has demonstrated conclusively that this is not so.
That is one of the Laws of Usenet, up there with ‘You can tell when a Usenet discussion is getting old when someone drags out Hitler and the Nazis.’
The Internet is nothing but a crudely patched-together digital misappropriation of long-established intellectual property of the city of New York.
Think of Usenet as a large house with many rooms. In one room they’re discussing Rilke; in the next they’re snorting nitrous and setting fire to the couch.
Crossposting isn’t inherently evil, in the same sense that necrophilia doesn’t really hurt anybody. One wonders only whether it’s appropriate to the occasion.
It’s been my policy to view the Internet not as an ‘information highway,’ but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
The best way to get information on Usenet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong information.
