That liquefaction of his prose

BlogList is a nifty new tool Blogger has added to Layout. I've chosen to have the list set to a "rolling boil" so the blogs most recently posted rise to the top. It's a bit of a chore for what are temporary blogs though. I wonder how the rolling affects the PageRanking. Just makes it more fluid I guess.

Anyway, is it inevitable to compare information to water? Just because it moves? So do turtles and ants. Actually Rudy Rucker wrote a novel about information-as-ants; as did Terry Pratchett.

You see such metaphoring all the time: datastream, datapipes, streaming video, the Matrix code raining down the screen. Kind of ironic really as real water messes with networks. Not that it ever rains in Auckland.

Still, unless you can think of another way to pistol-whip the ants into line you've got to go with the flow.