ABSTRACT
Once, in search of inspiration for a few leading paragraphs for a column, I went Web surfing. Incidentally, there should be a better term by now to describe one of the great time-wasting activities, truly a revenge effect of current technology. Surely it was not just by chance that the word surfing, describing a sport almost as silly as foxhunting—the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable—was applied to this activity?
