Mr. Speaker

Over time, the internet becomes increasingly average: incorrect information cancels out factual information, wisdom cancels out opinion and user-generated-content cancels out content.

For a given web search you have a (correct things/(incorrect things + correct things)) x 100 percent chance of finding something correct.

Consider

1. Eventually the internet will represent the most average person in the world.
2. We rely on the internet to make all of our decisions.

Therefore

The internet pushes and pulls us all towards average.

Conclusion

From a mathematical perspective, this is good for 3.3 billion people.

Right, I’m determined to get a post in before the end of January - even if it exposes my deep lack of understanding of the Gregorian solar calendar (and indeed hints at my naked state of nescience concerning many other aspects of the basic mechanics of our world).

Here’s how the problem started: 52 x 7 = 364. Ok, no, wait. A step even further back…
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While flicking casually through various shoutcast TV streams today, I came to focus my attention on an old documentary about computers, or offices, or machines, or office workers, or computerised office workers, or something.

It was pretty good.

Anyhoo, I think it was called “The Secret Life of Offices”, or “The Secret Life of Computerised Office Workers” or something.

Being the ever-resourceful one, I thought I’d look it up on the local library catalogue to see if they held a copy.

I typed “secret life of” into the title search.

The returned result set detailed a shocking titling conspiracy, revealing once and for all: the secret life of The Secret Life Of…
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Ahh, Three-Letter Acronyms: Time savers, confusion makers, sources of eternal annoyance. TLAs make managers feel competent, and let imaginative people enter rude words on high-score tables. But what makes a great TLA? What makes one stick? Why does BPM roll off the tongue, while QWJ makes you feel a bit sick? In an effort to find out, I have undertaken an exhaustive, or at least quite tiring, exploration into the TLA.
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Awwww yeeeeaahh booooooyyy… APEC Sound System in full effect - Asia-Pacific Economic Crew gunna rock it! A week of Sydney tour dates, culminating in a massive heads-of-state break-off in full gang colours. Should be awesome!

As part of the tour Mix-Master Johnny H has organised for a banging sound system to be set up throughout the city.

They haven’t started cranking tunes out yet - though apparently there was some freakin’ loud glitch-noise samples pumping out earlier - hopefully a sign of things to come!
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3 years without even a mention of Star Wars on this nerdy blog.

That is pretty impressive.