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Have a safe and happy one with your loved ones.
NY Times, quoting George Tenet: “I know that these actions would be controversial in this age where we still think the Internet is a free and open society with no control or accountability… But, ultimately, the Wild West must give way to governance and control.” [Article, free registration required.]
BBC story about a gamer (“Deathifier”) who spent US$26,500 to purchase a virtual island in the Project Entropia RPG. According to the article, “Deathifier will make money from his investment as he is able to tax other gamers who come to his virtual land to hunt or mine for gold. He has also begun to sell plots to people who wish to build virtual homes. ”
BBC: “Latin America’s economy grew by 5.5% in 2004, its best performance since 1980, while exports registered their best performance in two decades.”
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communications: Cosmopoliteness in the Internet Age. “Most Internet use behaviors are positively associated with cosmopoliteness. However, this pattern was not found for other media applications such as e-mail and watching DVDs… Other things being equal, cosmopolites are more likely to travel more extensively, particularly outside of their local region and country. They are more likely to identify with a broad, perhaps global, culture than with a specific, more narrow milieu.”
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