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Originally Posted by liamenator
This is what is insane about instantaneous information flow.
Makes me feel a bit nostalgic for the good old days, when time and space still existed between an event and its reportage.
Wait - forget it! Balloon Boy is trending on Twitter! Must be a new development...
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I hear you. I remember thinking the same thing the day Michael Jackson died. I remember that thread where it was only speculation at the time and there was up to the second reports on every news site, twitters, facebook pages, blackberrys, everything. Its crazy. The information age is so distracting. I remember the days I would go home from work or school and then find out on the evening news about stuff that happened that day. Now I barely digest one thing before some type of alert pops up about another. I'm amazed that anyone in our society gets any work done anymore.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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