I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but in the last few years something magical has happened to our beloved internet. More accurately something has changed in the way the general public perceives it. I’m not talking about stories on the nightly news about the thousands of greasy pedophiles all hauling ass in their windowless vans with a busy schedule to keep of molesting every child on the internet ever. No those have always existed and always will exist till the end of time.

What I am talking about is the fact that it is now socially acceptable to be a nerd. Even more shocking is the fact that you aren’t one of the cool kids unless you have a myspace or a facebook. It is almost as if it is seen as acceptable to sit down in front of a computer or have an email address. Is the internet…hip now? Perhaps even radical?

I am going to blame the whole Web 2.0 scam that has been floating around for a while now. That is why I have established the Station Atomica Web 2.0 Oversight and Evaluation Board (myself being the director as well as the sole member.) My goal is to quantify the effects of this development and find out what the heck is up with this crap, because while acceptance of the internet by society at large may seem like a good idea there will undoubtedly be some side effects. For instance I am now able to openly walk down the street wearing my favorite pair of Spock ears and talk about how I am a blogger without being thrown into a vat of acid inside of an insane asylum. We all agree that this is a good thing, but as a result of our new tolerance of nerddom is the fact that somebody can make an entire website detailing their obsession with drawing closeups of cat’s assholes and then link back to catassholegallery.com in their facebook account. And we are supposed to be okay with this.

Station Atomica might be new to the blogosphere, but I don’t think we are too late to hold back the tide of user created garbage that is the hallmark of Web 2.0. Let’s fight the good fight and put those horrid corners of the internet in the spotlight and see what oozes out of them like an especially scabby wound on the already festering tumor that is the internet.

-Andy