Googbits Essays
All hypertext enjambment-style GoogObits posts for which I wrote original essays along with annotations.
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GoogObits: Sister (Rushton Skakel Is Dead at 79; Father of Killer)
Today we’re served up the second death in a row of a guy whose sister married into a royal family and whose death was announced by a lawyer. Patterns.
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GoogObits: Infection (Mohammed al-Fassi, 50; Upset Beverly Hills Over House)
For all of you out there: if you’ve somehow developed of tissue deficiency of the transversus abdominis muscle (which makes up the floor of the inguinal canal), allowing some of your intestines to protrude directly through a defect in the inguinal canal floor, you might want to go check that out professionally, or you may…
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GoogObits: Moments (Ezra Solomon, Who Shaped Finance Theory, Dies at 82)
Often obituaries act like long ribbons that run directly from your newspaper or monitor to a frozen moment in the past, and jolts a re-cognition of that moment.
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GoogObits: Lessons (Murray Pergament, Chain Grew From Paint Stores, 76, Dies)
Today we’re delivered a few capitalist lessons that we instinctively already knew: Paths to economic success disappear over time. One scientific advance can lead to the launch of vastly different and successful product lines. Google moves on. Land is king.