When I first wrote my September 21 piece on K-logs, the sentence "The entire internet is a tool for information sharing" read "The entire goddamn internet is a tool for information sharing".   I removed the expletive, not to placate my mother, though that is a good reason in itself, but because it rang a little familiar. 

Today I found it.  It is a classic Tom Tomorrow quote, delivered in the course of his rant of October 14, 2002, one I have cited in this space previously, come to think of it.  Tom was responding to a phrase then in common use by webloggers:

"Also high on my list of grating terminology: self-congratulatory references to one's uncompensated output as 'free ice cream' -- as if the entire goddamn internet consists of anything but free ice cream."

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