Month: October 2001

Over at Metafilter, in an unrelated post, someone named yarf writes:

Google will be taken to court someday and its cache will go away. Why? Because its clearly a copyright violation when some company makes a copy of my work and profits from that copy. Google is a for-profit company and makes money from advertising. Their cache service is making a copy of my content, without my permission, and serving it to users, again, without my permission. This is completely different than a local cached copy made automatically by your browser for technical reasons, versus a server-based copy made by some third-party company for the enhancement of their services. I’m just surprised it hasn’t gone to court yet.

I have absolutely no idea how to respond to that, and I genuinely like Google as a search engine, but I think he just might be right.

And now, because I can’t have my friend Sharon feeling all wistful, some more photographs of nothing in particular. It should be noted (if it isn’t already evident) that I am not a careful photographer, nor exactly what one would call skilled. I point, I click. If I like the result, I share. Because that’s the kind of guy I am.

Zorak: “What y’all doin’?” Space Ghost: “Y’all?”

Zorak: “Yep.” SG: “Where’d you learn to talk like that?”

Z: “Hattiesburg.” SG: “What were you doing in Hattiesburg?”

Z: “Kickin’ it.” SG: “Oh, really.” Z: “Yep.”

SG: “Well that’s interesting.” Z: “It *is* interesting.”

SG: “Thom, is that interesting?” Thom Yorke (Radiohead): “No.”

– Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, “Knifin’ Around”

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