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  • silver26, on 07/08/2008, -0/+6"True Democracy Doesn’t Work on the Web"

    truer words have never been spoken.
  • GramarNazi, on 07/08/2008, -2/+2wtf is up with the title?
  • docmphd, on 07/08/2008, -2/+4some great insights
  • SophiaM, on 07/08/2008, -2/+4Well written with a lot of great insights.
  • jmengland, on 07/08/2008, -1/+7Love the article. Reminds me of the old saying, 'you can't learn to swim by reading a book'.
  • kqeda, on 07/09/2008, -1/+3Dear god,
    This man is a genius.

    Thank you.
  • DotNetWill, on 07/09/2008, -1/+1What a load of rubbish. FF2 has massive memory usage!

    I don't use IE, i use FF but it's all about the extensions for me. IE7 under Vista running protected mode is outstanding and if it had the extension support and community off FF i would swtich right away.
  • maryelawson, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1What a great article. :)
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