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The Internet makes my old brain bigger. It’s not just being able to Google or Bing or Ask Jeeves (yes showing my age here) practically anything. It’s that I can ask my circles of Internet friends a question and they will make my brain bigger.
I just finished Virginia Heffernan’s (@page88) autobiography of the Internet: Magic and Loss: The Internet As Art. Reading the last few pages left me feeling like I do when surfing online, the book ended with a riff I didn’t want to end.
(From an essay written soon after the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing)
The Boston Marathon Bombing Trial ended today with a Jury deciding to impose the death penalty on the brother who survived the…