Flashes of Panic

I saw a promo somewhere for a web search service—maybe they spidered this site. But their tagline was, “From chaos to order!” Implication being that they are bringing order to this wild, wild web by spidering it and presenting nicely packaged search results.

Secondary implication being that, by creating a site which requires spidering, searching, and presenting, et al., I am creating chaos which needs to be ordered by them, because of course my own presentation of said chaos isn’t good enough. Well, boys, you can take your pretty chaos-to-order conceit, and the horse you rode in on, and…

Well. Touchy, this morning. But I also created my own little Lloyd Dobler moment there… “Well, I don’t want to spider, search, or present anything for a living, spider anything searched or presented, search anything spidered or packaged, or package anything spidered or searched.”

Now Playing: Every Woman Alive from SXSW 2005 Showcasing Artist by Marion Loguidice Band