Is Cloudwebstore the real hashslingrz?

[Robin Landseadel]

Seriously, I've played this YouTube video three times in a row and  
each time there's the horribly chirpy, and low-rent, kinda sorts  
animated ad for Cloudwebstore. Reading BE, seems like this is one of  
the real punchlines of the book: we are all looking at 9/11, that  
wonderful distraction, while the banks are being looted by the likes  
of "VIP", who somehow around 2004 starts buying up bandwidth like it's  
going out of style. Really, the financial stuff we ignored while we  
were boiling over over Iraq and that incredibly effective dunderhead  
in the oval office is what all that Bleeding Edge Webware really did  
to all of us. And control of information over every nook and cranny on  
the internet? Built right into the system from the ground up. This is  
really, honestly, the very best that DARPA and its many friends and  
affiliates has to offer. Doubtless Cloudwebstore and the Powers That  
Be are going to be really good buddies.

Meanwhile, back in Echo Courts, filming commences on the opening  
credit sequence of The Crying of Lot 49. Black & White. A pocket  
transistor radio. Dark lacquered fingernail switches radio on, music  
commences. Credit titles flash over Slow zoom to small decoration over  
speaker grill, 'til the little oval fills the screen. Decoration is a  
silver and black muted posthorn, logo for this particular model. Music  
playing is "Have You Seen Her Face?" Only first verse of the song  
plays, up to "Can't hide from that look in her eye." Music and visuals  
are cut, screen goes to color, envelope of letter obscuring Oedipa's  
eyes as she scryes the back of envelope, muted posthorn overstamp  
visible to camera's pov but only just barely as the envelope and hand  
holding envelope descend and we see her face:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kr4xG-Zg9I
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