Is Cloudwebstore the real hashslingrz?

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On Nov 24, 2013, at 12:08 PM, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

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