Internet Use Affects Memory, Study Finds

Why Remember When You Can Google? Internet Use Affects Memory, Study Finds nyti.ms/r37mA4

Subaru / Baby driver

I *love* this commercial:

Suzi Barrett / eSurance, Metamucil

Went on the Net looking for hits/info on the eSurance/Metamucil commercials girl -- turns out her name is Suzi Barrett:

(found her on a blog called "whoisthathotadgirl", as the result of a search for people talking about ads and commercials ... turned out to be right up my alley)

http://whoisthathotadgirl.tumblr.com/post/6824698941/q-who-is-the-hot-girl-in-the-new-metamucil

And here's another one talking about Suzi Barrett:

http://olioscourge.blogspot.com/2011/03/suzi-barrett.html

There's something about her ... not classically pretty in that conventional "sexy, alluring" way, but ...

Internet

Reddit is the hot new thing (actually has been for a few weeks). Digg has been relegated to has-been status. Too boring. Reddit is where all the activity is, it's the front of the wave.

Google+ was 30% of all Twitter topics last week.

Netflix / Torrents

Everything is streaming now. Netflix, HBO Go.

Torrents were just a stepping stone, it seems. An introduction into the world of pure digital. But the mainstream stuck with their televisions, which is to be expected.

Really, who wants to watch movies on their computer? You want to sit back, and be entertained by a tv, a large screen on a wall that delivers content to you. You want to be entertained. With a minimum of effort.

Searching for your own content takes too much work.

Local backwater crap

It took the Appliance Liquidators people five years to figure out that the phrase is "bare bones prices" ...

Facebook is the new Myspace.

I knew Google+ would be hot ever since I read about Google Circles at SXSW.

This thing has been a long time in coming, we need it, we need choice, we need something better than the Facebook regime.

I have *never* been comfortable with Facebook, how it has always lumped all contacts together into one big pile. Ever since the beginning, I have wanted different groups of friends to separate out from each other. I have *always* wanted this.

http://m.zdnet.com/blog/networking/is-facebook-already-running-scared-of-google-/1224

See, I knew Google+ was big. I always sensed this. They were getting right what Facebook was getting wrong. And never addressed this. They were the oppressive regime, on their way out.