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The Impatience of the Google Generation
profBill writes "As a fifty-something professor who teaches introductory computer science, I am very aware that the twenty-somethings in my class are much more at ease with computers than any other generation. However, does that mean they are more adept at using those computers? Apparently not, according to the researchers at University College London. Their research indicates that while more adept at conducting searches, younger users also show 'impatience in search and navigation, and zero tolerance for any delay in satisfying their information needs'. Moreover, these traits 'are now becoming the norm for all age-groups, from younger pupils and undergraduates through to professors'. The panel makes two conclusions: That libraries (and I wonder what a library will become in the future, anyway) will have to adapt, and that the information processing skills of todays young people are lacking. Why are those skills lacking and, if they are, what can be done about it?"
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I've been doing it for years
I say, sit on down, open your eyes
And open up your ears
Say
Put a tree in your butt
Put a bumblebee in your butt
Put a clock in your butt
Put a big rock in your butt
Put some fleas in your butt
Start to sneeze in your butt
Put a tin can in your butt
Put a little tiny man in your butt
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Make it bright in your butt
Put a TV in your butt
Put me in your butt
Everybody say
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no bees in nobody's butt, putting nothing--
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y'all get paid for doing this?
Cause y'all gotta get some kind of money
Cause this don't sound like the kind of--
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than put somethin in somebody's butt
to be truthful
Well step aside my friend and let me
show you how you do it
When big bad E just rock rock to it
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Put her face in your butt
Put a frown in your butt
Put a clown in your butt
Sit on down in your butt
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Put a moat in your butt
Put a mink coat in your butt
Put everything in your butt
Just start to sing about your butt
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