It seems that these days everyone has had a jab at Myspace. But these people, so few have done anything about it. Like the weather, we talk about it inanely and no one does anything about it. I'm going to change the weather.
Why is it that in order to market some product on the Internet, we place the root "e" or "my" to it? It makes me violently angry, this poor attempt by the lay businessman to describe the expanding reality of our world by recycling old words. It's insulting to me and it should be to you. The quality of your world is only as vast as your ability to describe it, therefore by increasing your vocabulary you can have a deeper experience with reality. Or you can be like Tom and have a vocabulary much like that of a chimp and simply expand on the world by joining old monosyllabic words together. You can join the ranks of the intellectual elite and say things like "Ice cream good all the time."
When saying to someone "Hey you should check out my MySpace page," it should be apparant that this dual use of "my," right next to each other, doesn't roll off the tongue. Why don't we say, "Have you seen my MyHouse?" Or MyMyApartment? Why do we have to end it there? Can't we just keep saying "My" over and over like a two year old confused about ownership?
If you've used this "UI train wreck that is myspace" you're already aware of its flaws and the quality of content it brings to the net. Here's how you do something about it.
Get FireFox.
Get RIP.
Get Greasemonkey.
Start Ripping.
Install some scripts.
You're welcome.
- 1/12/2007 07:44:00 PM
You know as a kid, and I say kid because I think that 16 years old doesn't qualify as anything else, I use to love listening to Chuck's theories and opinions about this life and beyond. Many of the things I believe today were brought on by the long drawn out conversations on the phoen being convinced that the way he believed was right. I'm really glad I came across this blog because I missed hearing your interesting thoughts Chuck. And as always I have to lean toward hanging onto every word and believing what you say. I think what I'm really trying to say is "You're a freakin genious! Rock on!"
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