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A confession: I had no idea what Delicious was until about an hour and a half ago. But I signed up, downloanded whatever Firefox add-on was recommended to me, and uploaded every single one of my bookmarks. Being that I have no life and use this computer solely for homework purposes and playing Facebook Scrabble, my entire list was comprised of articles on the US financial crisis and the Phaistos Disk. You know you’re a cool kid when.
A little disappointed by the image that would convey, I decided to boot up my five-year-old Dell and see what fun things I had stored in my Favorites on that computer. I do not have Firefox on that computer, and when I attempted to upload all my bookmarks, it was a bloody failure. I downloaded the necessary attachments, and then the process went no further. So I went through to pick-and-choose things to load. Many of my links no longer existed, so I supposed it’s just as well that the lump-sum load option flopped. I was amazed that 13,243 people have ThinkGeek bookmarked, while no one had Adam Sandler’s The Peeper as a favorite.
The concept of being able to delve into the bookmarks of people with the common bond of one favorite site is pretty impressive. I was very surprised, and frankly, disappointed in society, that others had tagged The Llama Song. However, I browsed texasboy2008’s sites, since was also a llama fan, and found this, which was pretty freakin awesome.
I attempted tagging an article for the class, but I’m not 100% sure I did it correctly, as it’s currently in a folder all by it’s sad little self. It’s about an army grant that will be used to develop the technology to send thoughts directly from the brain to an email Inbox. To me the idea is fantastic and horrifying at the same time. The article, Helmet to Convey Messages By Thought, says that the first step for this would be video game technology, which sounds fun. There is hope that patients who suffer from diseases which paralyze the body but not the mind would benefit greatly from this technology, as they’d be able to communicate with their loved ones. I’m unsure how I feel about government officials being able to send messages to one another with the possibility of no paper trail and no accountability, but I suppose that’s another blog for another day.
Overall I like Delicious, and when I have a few hours to meander through people’s favorite bookmarks I plan on doing so.
