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Friday, October 13 2000

Sarah Musgrave : How the New Economy Turned Me Into an Old Capitalist

"I can only imagine some ending like that of the first Star Trek movie, where the computers of the space-wrecked Voyager ship spend years searching for their creators and that’s why they keep hassling the Enterprise when it passes through their solar system. This harassment comes in the form of a bald chick in a short skirt, not a bad result of a computer geek’s wet dream."

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A List Apart : The Web is Like Canada

Ten points go to the American who can identify the funniest thing about this article that other than the fact that it sounds like run of the mill English-Canadian navel-gazing : "What I want to happen is for the wise elders of the Web, those of us who've been online forever and really do know better than the neophytes, to use the concepts derived from the perpetual struggle to define Canadian identity as an arrow in our quiver in efforts to shoot bad ideas out of the sky." Welcome to Canada, folks. Don't forget to fight the power at the door...

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