aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Sunday, February 27, 2005

Boing Boing on the toolbar

Boing Boing, a directory of wonderful things, in support of the much maligned new Google toolbar feature:

I think I should be able to use a proxy that reformats my browsing sessions for viewing on a mobile phone; I think I should be able to use a proxy that finds every ISBN and links it to a comparison-shopping-engine’s best price for that book across ten vendors. I think I should be able to use a proxy that auto-links every proper noun to the corresponding Wikipedia entry.

And so on—it’s my screen, and I should be able to control it; companies like Google and individuals should be able to provide tools and services to let me control it.

Yoz Grahame actually downloaded and installed the thing. Now his is a criticism I agree with!