However unsound its foundations, Wikipedia is the most cited document of our times, coming up first on almost any Google search and transporting me to the land of religious cults, megafauna and racist Disney cartoons.

Facebook is too crowded to be a home and too familiar to be a street. It's an "eternal, illusory party." And some have decided to crash it.

Exactly what Facebook did to our social lives, "social dating" sites risk doing to dating -- turning other human beings into means to feel more awesome about yourself.

If I want to watch a movie now, I just search and download or stream on Netflix. My browsing is limited to the genres "end-of-the-world" and "suburban dysfunction," which Netflix says are my favorites.

With the Internet reducing search, transaction and distribution costs to near nil, savvy start-ups have been able to thwart the capitalist order and make use-value the sole value of a good once again.