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"The saddest, stupidest sentence I’ve ever read"

Nick Carr calls out a whopper by Michael Arrington. It can be a pleasure to witness Carr best an inferior mind, but I have a question: If Carr is so smart — and he is — why does he read Arrington?

Written by guterman

March 25, 2008 at 6:06 am

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