Stop your search engines

In her case, though, the irresistible temptation was the internet. Those mythical bird-women (look it up) didn’t seduce with beauty or carnality - not with petty diversions - but with the promise of unending knowledge. "Over all the generous earth we know everything that happens," they crooned to passing ships, vowing that any sailor who heeded their voices would emerge a wiser man." That is precisely the draw of the internet.  But there's a big difference between drowning in a sea of information and finding wisdom.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/magazine/25FOB-WWLN-t.html

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Not long ago, she started an experiment in self-binding: intentionally creating an obstacle to behavior she was helpless to control, much the way Ulysses lashed himself to his ship's mast to avoid succumbing to the Sirens' song.

 
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