Internet Trackbacks

People discover some weird shit on the internet [imagine link to something really weird]. Don't you always wonder how they found it?

Imagine if you had a Firefox extension for Google Reader or e-mailed links that showed the person reading what you sent them the history of the previous sites (3? 5?) that you visited before you got to the weird shit in question? That would be cool, right? Browsing history is easily accessible, now all we need is a programmer (Tom?) and a cool way to visualize this graphically. This won't be good for everything you find on the internet, but I bet there are some great paths out there, especially in the classic Wikipedia vortex situation (e.g. where you go from Object-Oriented Programming to Adolf Hitler to Last meal in fewer than 10 clicks).

Honestly

If you don't use Gmail as your primary e-mail address, I can't take you seriously as a person. The only exception to this is if you have to use a school e-mail address (and even then, you should set that up to forward to your Gmail).

View as Single Page

I know(?) that articles are many pages long for advertising purposes (and maybe to make you feel like you are reading a magazine?), but I would much prefer if all internet articles were on a single page (or at minimum if they ALL had the view as single page option). Clicking through a New Yorker article is something else (luckily they have the single page option).

As an aside, I have become obsessed with using parentheticals in my writing. Is this bad?

Progress

It's the small victories that count in the global fight against internet addiction:

After Chang-hoon descended, he said, “That was better than games!”

Was it thrilling enough to wean him from the Internet?

“I’m not thinking about games now, so maybe this will help,” he replied. “From now on, maybe I’ll just spend five hours a day online.”