Saturday, November 24, 2012
Litter Along the Great Information Highway
In my newspaper* today the columnist Mike Royko was quoted as saying, “It’s been my policy to view the Internet not as an ‘information highway’ but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.”
Mike must not have seen a highway before he left us. Along those long ribbons of cement stretching far into the future lie a great deal of garbage.
The Internet is no different Instead of paper bags, bottles, used baby diapers and tin cans, the Information Highway is littered with thoughts of the barely literate. Those thoughts may have all the value of a used diaper but many fall short of that goal.
Mike died in 1997. It is a good thing he is not around to view the Internet’s roadside today. We have learned to survive the last fifteen years because we were made of sterner stuff. Or, maybe because we learned to look down the highway toward our goal, not letting ourselves be distracted by the babbling loonies.
Well, some of us, anyway.
*Orange County Register
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
5 comments:
But after Jordan missed 62 games, the sales dropped miserably in the second year. [url=http://www.ukdresshop.co.uk]Celebrity Dresses[/url]
[url=http://www.expeditionparkaca.com]canada goose coats[/url] You see the ugly side of the business, the ugly behaviour of some of these girls.
People like my father, immigrantswith little formal education and limited technical skills, were happy tohave any job. http://www.londongenuinepandora.com Take the designing No. As with anything, and particularly reverse-engineered techniques from kata or books, we should be very careful to distinguish "this could be made to work against a compliant partner" from "this is useful for fighting". Attraction undoubtedly much f our pursuit! You can ls discover just but ll person hv a shot at understand t instruction by instruction.
The fist I want to say is to buy thermal underwear, the rational choice to compare the product price, do not think that the more expensive the better. [url=http://www.femmescanadagoose.com]canada goose[/url] Tali has walls up and I wish she was more vocal in the first half of the season (or that the producers had shown more of her), but she is quite likable.
Choose a chocolate fountain with plenty of dipping items like marshmallows, bananas, and strawberries. Long gone are those days when only medical personnel and surgeons used to wear cheap Scrubs. This is one website that has made a specialty out of Chinese, Korean and Japanese women's fashion. [url=http://www.promkleidde.com/]mac duggal ball gown [/url]
The very best some jewellery may go unnoticed when not viewable thoroughly.
I have had a fabulous wash rag billfold (brownish) intended for 4 years.
At the immunity challenge Amanda quickly learned that James was gone.
If you want my pick for a honeymoon it would be little palm island
in the Florida Keys. http://mlmundergroundclassifieds.
com/groups/celine-bags-serious-about/
I'm really enjoying the design and layout of your site. It's a very easy on the eyes which makes it much more enjoyable for me to come here and visit more often.
Did you hire out a designer to create your theme?
Great work!
Feel free to visit my web-site :: Legal Ecstasy
In 2012, she was named as one of "Time" magazine's set of one hundred most influential people. Radley, a corgi-spaniel mix, and Roman, a Chihuahua mix, have lived with Chastain for some time. ) This was because that year the greatest fish the forest contained was obviously a mere19 pounds.
Also visit my homepage: zero Dark thirty showtimes Michigan
http://billofthebirds.blogspot.com/2012/04/its-arbor-day-plant-tree.html
Post a Comment