Happy Leap Year

So I'm working on a rant, and it's coming up on Christmas, and I realize it isn't appropriate for Christmas. So I start in on another, and it isn't either. Then the next one wasn't appropriate for New Year's, and well, the point is I have a huge backlog of rants at the moment, which is good, because I'm currently swamped with work getting my box'o'treasures ready for NonCon. Come to think of it, I'm somewhat surprised I haven't seen a list of panel topics float by yet.

Anyway though, I've been working on a lot of stuff. I don't really recall what particular project I was working on when I snapped and made this little artsy thing but it was nice having a chance to recycle that perl script. Might have been this little game here I'll be making available to you all shortly.

Here's a real rant for you though. Did you ever read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? There's a rather pointless subplot in there involving a city that has two police stations, neither of which was aware the other existed. While in context, that's a wholely preposterous concept, here in internet land, it happens pretty constantly.

When you're actually walking around outside, communities are pretty dynamic. You live in a town, which contains a wide variety of stores, clubs, etc. which you're going to have some knowledge of, and if you hang out in one of these, you'll have knowledge of the greater global network of which it is a part. Haging around a gaming store for example will give you some clue of what goes on on the RPG front.

TV and radio are fairly interconnected too. There's a relatively small number of channels, and they're all sitting right there, for you to flip through and see everything.

Web pages don't work that way. Every web page is, in essence, an island. They often have links pages sure, and a search engine can find any given page, but web pages are never "near" eachother. The closest you ever get to that is when a bunch of pages link back and forth to eachother, but that's quite rare. I've never seen more than 3 pages which link to eachother universally like that. It strikes me as quite ironic that a network allowing instant free access to information by anyone in the world has less means of calling attention to itself than, say, an antique store in an out of the way little town.

Hopefully, you weren't waiting to hear some sort of deep insight or notions for the future to wrap this up. I don't really have anywhere else to go with this, just pointing it out is all.