From taupe to titubas: A story of romance in the Internet age

From taupe to titubas: A story of romance in the Internet age: An engaged couple I know were using search engines to discover the name of the color of their couch. In doing so, they stumbled across a description of a tituba, a Jewish marriage contract, in the exact shade of their taupe couch.

This story struck my romantic chord: a shared search to describe a shared piece of living room furniture led to the finding of a contract people have used for thousands of years to commit to a shared life together.

The Internet is like an infinitely large messy room that accepts everyone’s belongings -- everything from priceless treasure to worthless junk. Search engines are tools that people use to wade through these objects of varied value or relevance to find what they need.

In wading through these objects, though, one can be lucky enough to find objects of high value and questionable relevance to the matter at hand, like titubas instead of taupe.