Because a word is like an archaeological artifact.

At first we thought that perhaps this was artifact.

We don't have such an artifact for the Indus script.

As a cultural artifact, it's both a sendup and embodiment of our Facebook enabled era of permanent reminiscence.

You can look in this computer fabricated artifact, and he's got a double stranded genome that's no good.

If you don't know the provenance or the source of the artifact, it's not science, it's a pretty thing to look at.

Everything we've described, every artifact or place, will be a specific representation, will have a specific character that can be linked to directly.

I don't mean the software I mean an ancient artifact that contains in the same text both a known text and an unknown text.

So now, if you take this metaphor of genome as program seriously, you have to consider that Chris Anderson is a computer fabricated artifact, as is Jim Watson, Craig Venter, as are all of us.

And even those people who complain and say that the relative standing of countries on something like PISA is just an artifact of culture, of economic factors, of social issues, of homogeneity of societies, and so on, these people must now concede that education improvement is possible.

So every item, every artifact that we make, will have embedded in it some little sliver of Web ness and connection, and it will be part of this machine, so that our environment kind of in that ubiquitous computing sense our environment becomes the Web. Everything is connected.

And it's a 35 key keyboard that is designed to fit both inside the scanner, be magnetically safe, have minimal interference that would contribute to any artifact and have this cushion so that it can rest on the players' legs while they're lying down in the scanner, playing on their back.

The rage, it seems, is not spontaneous rather, it is an artifact of local or regional politics. This does not diminish the irresponsibility of those who gratuitously engage in such offensive behavior, but it does make clear that outrage against their actions should not be a basis for abandoning our commitment to freedom of expression.

At times, as seems to be the case with the video that triggered the current protests in cities across North Africa and the Middle East, a long period may elapse between the offensive material s dissemination and an outpouring of popular rage. The rage, it seems, is not spontaneous rather, it is an artifact of local or regional politics.