Pinboard -- The absolute indispensability of the artist is that he alone can give the pattern recognition. (McLuhan) Flickr -- No one can win against kipple, except temporarily and maybe in one spot. (Dick) Goodreads -- I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. (Salinger) Twitter -- That one big gossip column that is unforgivable, unforgettable, and for which there is no redemption, no erasure, no mistakes. Ours is a brand new world of all-at-onceness. Time has ceased. Space has vanished. We now live in a global village. The simultaneous happening. We're back in acoustic space. (McLuhan) Tumblr -- Oh, tomorrow – some fool will start the Machine again, tomorrow. (Forster) Penfield -- Things have moved from: "I have a feeling, I want to make a call" to "I want to have a feeling, I need to send a text." (Turkle) ClaimID -- The bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly. (Dick) Subscribe -- The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already. (Orwell)