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Should using the Web be a crime?

by Mathew on July 5, 2007 · Comments

(cross-posted from my Globe and Mail blog)
I think it’s safe to say that the Internet is the greatest tool for the distribution of ideas ever invented. Unfortunately, that means it is also the greatest tool for the distribution of bad ideas — including the idea that people should be killed for their beliefs (for more [...]

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Triumph of the average-looking: Paul Potts

by Mathew on June 24, 2007 · Comments

I apologize to all of those who may have already seen and heard about him before, but I only just got a chance to check out Paul Potts, the cellphone salesman and former supermarket shelf-stocker from Wales who won the Britain’s Got Talent show with a mind-boggling rendition of the Puccinia aria Nessun Dorma. Someone [...]

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