Theory 1: “The Internet exists to make me look smart.” —John Scalzi<\/A><\/p>\n A question for folks more computer-savvy than I: Whenever I cut and paste quotes from some other page into the editing window on Movable Type, quote marks and dashes get mangled into non-standard characters. They look just fine when I’m editing, but when I post they become weird strings of nonsense characters in the middle of the text. <\/p>\n How do I stop that from happening, other than going through and replacing every suspect character by hand? I generally edit posts on Firefox, but I might be cutting and pasting from other browasers.<\/p>\n Theory 2: The Internet exists to provide a creative outlet for people to express themselves.<\/p>\n In support of this thoery, and via TNH’s Particles<\/A>, I offer The last 100 pictures uploaded to LiveJournal<\/A>. It’s image-heavy, so don’t look without broadband, but it’s sort of fascinating to see a quick cross-section of the huge variety of things people are posting.<\/p>\n Theory 3: The Internet exists to facilitate the distrubution of dirty pictures.<\/p>\n In this case, vaguely sexual images generated with Mathematica<\/A> (via an email list). May or may not be safe for work, depending on where you work.<\/p>\n Theory 4: The Internet exists to allow people to vote in opinion polls.<\/p>\n This one, for example<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Theory 1: “The Internet exists to make me look smart.” —John Scalzi A question for folks more computer-savvy than I: Whenever I cut and paste quotes from some other page into the editing window on Movable Type, quote marks and dashes get mangled into non-standard characters. They look just fine when I’m editing, but when… Continue reading The True Purpose of the Internet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}