simpleRECURSION || An Interactive Meme, for a Change
August 28, 2005
An Interactive Meme, for a Change

11:39 PM

Yoinked from here: go here, enter the year in which you graduated from high school into the search box, and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year. Bold the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate and underline your favorites. Do nothing to the ones you don't remember (or don't care about). My year was 2000, FYI. ;)

Click to Show My List


At any rate, a scary, scary thing is afoot, currently dubbed the "Internet Operating System," which basically means that, for a fee (or for having to suffer through a whole bunch of adware), you get to manage your computer through remote web services. Now, think about all that free space that Gmail, Yahoo and Apple are handing out right now; think about Flickr and think about Outlook Live, think about it and shudder. It seems that Microsoft's nefarious plan to put all your base on their servers has begun to unfold itself behind the scenes - and all the other big boys have finally caught on.

This is not only the most perfect opportunity to transparently penetrate the two major OS markets, and research demographics in a way which otherwise would be condemned as being deployment of spyware or adware - this is also a way to recursively advertise and ingrain software products into the hearts and minds of the public and push a pre-packaged and despicably rigid and generalised web services that every housewife will have on her machine, right next to her MSN, Gmail and iTunes.

In other words, Microsoft wants to become another idiot-friendly Apple-type company, and I just hate that - this is the exact reason I have been avoiding ICQ, MSN, the MSN browser and a whole bunch of other ad-filled, uncomfortable, proprietary stuff for years, substituting it with Trillian and plain, old IE - a properietary OS is one thing; the proprietary "digital lifestyle," that Apple, and now Microsoft (and even newer *nix efforts) are now trying to push on me - that's another story altogether. It'll catch on, because now, unlike in circa 1995-1996, when Bill first proposed the idea, the people are ready and the hardware/software is ready (read: MS Media Centre), but I'm wary.

Oh, and last but not least: surprise, surprise, they're making a new film; god, I hate Tobey Maguire; Sam Raimi is cool, though. ;)

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