 internet. We. The compulsive <a href="http://slashdot.org" target="_blank">Slashdot</a> refreshers, the <a href="http://boingboing.net" target="_blank">boingboing</a>ers, the acronym-gobblers, the architects and designers and programmers whose very livelihood is dependent on the flow of ones and zeroes.</p>

<p>Our words are bits and our statements are programs. We have come to know each other&#8217;s <a href="http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/02/25/sidestepping/" target="_blank">bugs</a> and learned 