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Should Canada bail out Nortel?

Om has a piece today written by Venture Capitalist Allan Leinwand asking whether Canada should bail out Nortel.  He asks:  “But is preserving the country’s technological heritage reason enough to spend millions in taxpayers dollars?” I think that...

Fashion holds a lesson for the MPAA/RIAA

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0909/p09s01-coop.html Control of creativity? Fashion’s secret Film and music industries might heed the wisdom By David Bollier and Laurie Racine AMHERST, MASS., AND DURHAM, N.C. – Why do fashion, film, and music – the...

NYTimes: Online Dating Sheds Its Stigma as Losers.com

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/ abstract.html?resû0B13FD3C5E0C7A8EDDAF0894DB404482 The New York Times June 29, 2003 Online Dating Sheds Its Stigma as Losers.com By AMY HARMON Of the 120 men she traded messages with online in her first four months of Internet dating,...

Kevin Mitnick Finally Renews His HAM License

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncidR8&e=1&cidR8&u=/ap/ 20021226/ap_on_hi_te/fcc_hacker Ex-Computer Hacker Granted Radio License Thu Dec 26, 5:21 PM ET Add Technology – AP to My Yahoo! By DAVID HO, Associated Press Writer...

And Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,861942,00.html Folly of our masters of the universe Global elites must realise that US imperialism isn’t in their interest Michael Hardt Wednesday December 18, 2002 The Guardian Some of the worst tragedies of human...