20.9.02

Caution: Random Venting

Today's Track: Two Thousand Light Years From Home--The Rolling Stones

I think someone with a good working knowledge of Javascript should design a little browser toy which automatically creates a link to every single page you visit, referring it back to a homepage you, the user, have previously specified. Why? Why not? The internet is supposed to be all about the free and unfettered exchange of ideas and information. Links help us to easily navigate to sites of interest, possibly containing valuable and pertinent information, much more easily than if we'd had to search or them manually. At least, that's the theory.
In truth, links help us to quickly, almost instantaneously, access vast amounts of useful data without the tedium of actually having to think about what it is we want to know.
Everyone, if you haven't already, should devote at least one day to link-jumping. That is, continuously moving, link by link, through web pages, not concerning yourself with the site's contents, but using it simply as a place to find the next unvisited link. In this way it is possible to cover enormous swathes of the web in relatively little time. True, you won't necessarily learn anything, but odds are you weren't going to anyway.
Incidentally, if you do decide to try this--or if you have already--let me know how well you did. My personal best is almost eight consecutive hours...

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