Opinion

Once upon a time, a little Internet startup called Napster had the world in the palm of its hand.

In the early ’90s John Glenn, the American senator, filed a suit over a housing project that was in view of his Vail house.

A recent industry study predicted that in the next three years, more than 60 per cent of all e-mails sent via Internet will be spam.

Perhaps this is an admission of how irrelevant this space usually is, but few columns have produced as much feedback as the idea espoused two weeks ago about moving the Whistler Golf Course to the Callaghan Valley and fulfilling our resident housing

In the entire history of democracy, and free speech, and open communication, nothing has had a greater impact than the Internet.

hoary adj . ( -ier, -iest ) 1a (of hair) grey or white with age. b (of a person) having such hair; aged, venerable. 2 old and trite ( a hoary joke ). 3 Bot. & Zool. Covered with short white hairs.

Anyone studying the formula that has made Whistler a successful resort community will eventually come across the concept of warm beds – beds that are occupied nightly by visitors, as opposed to beds that remain empty when the owners aren’t

Like the Neilsen ratings for television or Ebert and Roeper for the movies, determining the best of what’s on the Web is a nebulous thing.

In last week’s Pique, I told the story of 18-year-old Jeffrey Parson of small-town Minnesota, a computer enthusiast who was dumb enough to replicate the Blaster virus, and leave his name all over it before re-releasing it onto the Web.

The sound of jackhammers has never been confused with the wailing song of the sirens. No one has ever been drawn by the machine-gun bursts of a compressed air demolition machine to seek the source of this tune.