Way to fly off the handle without a handle on the situation, Wil. If you want compartmentalized, individual services with no interconnect, by all means use those. Meaningful correlation and federation is not evil. Of course, this helps tailor their ads to you even more, but Google is not an NPO and you are not directly paying them anything for their services. Im summary: wah.

only 6 hours of sleep? Call the wah-mbulance ;) OK, I'm jealous that I did not see Hall & Oates.

a lot of so-called alternative medicine is pretty mainstream. Aspirin was originally made from willow bark, after all. I swear by Traditional Medicinals teas for when I have a cold. They knock that shit out.