Two Great Tastes, Better Together
On the other hand, some combinations seem a match made in heaven. Spaghetti and meatballs, bread and butter, cream cheese and lox on a bagel - all these have a venerable peerage and have stood the test of time. And they make sense - just looking at a plain old sliced bagel you realize that 'something' belongs on its pocked surface.
If food is a metaphor for life, then what goes for the kitchen goes for the Internet. And with that, we come to one of the strangest but utterly sensible phenomena in recent Internet history - the 'mashup.'