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Old 03-11-2010, 11:51 PM   #1
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Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
The BBC is reporting:

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The internet is among a record 237 individuals and organisations nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
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The internet's nomination has been championed by the Italian version of Wired magazine for helping advance "dialogue, debate and consensus".
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The nomination for the internet is supported by 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and the founder of the $100 laptop project Nicholas Negroponte.
I see nothing wrong with giving the award to an object (other than they really should give it to an inanimate carbon rod first). The Nobel Prize is a joke. Past winners include Al Gore (because he solved global warming), President Obama (because he wasn't George W Bush), and Yasser Arafat (because he stopped being a terrorist). Heck, why not take this to the logical conclusion and simply put it in a box of CrackerJack.
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