Are we forever at the end of the Know-It-All? You know the sort of person I’m describing, right? The kind who always know the right answer to everything when asked and, if not asked, will offer up blind bits of trivia on their own accord from the dark recesses of history while simultaneously adding living citations and quotes from books, politicians and serving up sharp shards of microinformation that only encyclopedia writers need to know.
We are quite familiar with the young woman who had her laptop “killed” with three bullets by Israeli security forces on a recent trip to Israel — but are you aware there is still a Bush-Era standing search and data
seizure policy that gives any U.S. Customs official or Border patrol agent the right to take your laptop and papers without a warrant or even a suspicion of illegality?
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There’s a notion floating about the internets that the only place we are truly honest with ourselves is found in what we type in a search box.
We always find it fascinating how memes are passed from one mind to another, and when we started this Urban Semiotic blog in 2004, the binding of “Urban” and “Semiotic” into a single idea was not prevalent or popular. Today, a curious site called Osun.org provides this odd search return for: http://www.osun.org/Urban+Semiotic-pdf.html
If you aren’t using Google Apps Mobile yet on your iPhone, you need head into iTunes and download it today! My favorite part of Google Apps Mobile is playing with the Voice Search feature. You speak it. Google Apps Mobile will find it on the web for you. Most of the time. As you can see in the screenshot below, I did a previously successful search for “cochlear implants” — not an easy or expected couple of words to “get” but Google got ’em — and then I decided to speak “Panopticonic” to see how astute Google was at blending the new with the known.
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