Michael Boyce tweeted "i resent knowing about tiger woods without even trying to know about tiger woods". So well put. In talking with some friends at a party last night we figured that the metaphor is of the information superhighway super crowded with billboards. You can't help but be assaulted with drive-by celebrity trivia. But in this case, the Tiger Woods story I think was more of a celebrity crash where we were implicated as implicit if not complicit rubberneckers. You see, Tiger crashed from a great height. He wasn't exactly a jumper...more of a tight-rope walker that we watched with fascination waiting for the stumble. Even those that weren't watching couldn't help but overhear the story of the one that fell from a great height.
There's not much I can do about celebrity drive-by's but I do improve the scenery by using a firefox plug-in called Add-Art. It replaced ads with art. After I first installed it, I sort of forgot about it. I still catch myself thinking things like 'what IS that?' when I see a piece of art where an ad should be. It's such a strange thing to be seeing that it catches my eye almost every time. I highly recommend it.
No I'm not linking to Tiger Woods.
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