Blogging The Classics

Better Living Through Blogging has suggested a new blogosphere meme:

Now it's your turn. UPDATE: No rules. Just find a classic line from a novel -- opening line or otherwise -- and modify it to reflect blogging and/or bloggers. Generic phrasing (blog or bloggers or blogging) is best, but exceptions can be made -- for instance, "Call me Instapundit" works because most bloggers have heard of him and visit his site, and the "I" is sort of alliterative because both Ishmael and Instapundit begin with that letter. Have fun - heck, maybe we'll turn it into a contest -- select the best entries, and then have a vote-off!

I see no reason to limit this to novels.

• I blog, therefore I am.

  • Improved version: I link, therefore I am.

• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all bloggers are created equal…

• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an argumentative nerd in possession of a good computer must be in want of a blog.

• Upon what meat doth this our Instapundit feed that he is grown so great?

• In the beginning, Pyra created blogger and blogspot.

• A microbe is which has no inbound links.

• Art goes yet further, imitating that rational and most excellent work of Nature, man. For by art is created that great LEVIATHAN called the INTERNET, or WEB (in Latin, ARANEA), which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose venting and expression it was intended; and in which the W3C is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body; the blogger and other posters of facts and opinion, artificial joints; Google's page rank (by which fastened to the seat of the sovereignty, every joint and member is moved to perform his duty) are the nerves, that do the same in the body natural; the microprocessors and ISP connections of all the particular members are the strength; vox populi (the people's voice) its business; Unix geeks, by whom all things needful for it to know are suggested unto it, are the memory; data and programs, an artificial reason and will; uptime, health; downtime, sickness; and flame wars, death. Lastly, the RFCs, by which the parts of this body politic were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation.