If you're a Third Wave infoterrorist, then Daedalus should be your patron saint. This Greek geek of engineering constructed the labyrinth, whose meandering paths led explorers into false leads at every step. In the same vein, imagine designing a labyrinth site on the Web to snare all those nosy bots that catalog the Net. Once an unsuspecting Web crawler entered, it would be hit with as many dead ends and recursive wrong turns as the labyrinth cared to store - or better yet, compute.
Terrorizing your culture's records becomes less pyrotechnic than geometric; less Unabomber than Unabuilder. Arabesques of hyperlink, where no matter how much thread the scampering bot leaves behind, it still can't find its way out.
- Jim Clarage (clarage@rice.edu) plays dada net jazz at www.bioc.rice.edu/~clarage/clickme/.
