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Entangled in the Matrix Net

DOROTHY WOODEND

Globe and Mail Update

VANCOUVER — I'm having a Matrix moment. You know the feeling: a vague sinking sensation when reality seems as if it is being simulated inside an enormous computer. A neo-Neo moment.

This week, Google bought YouTube for $1.65-billion. YouTube, in case you've been dead or under a large rock, is the website where you can view videos that people have uploaded to the Internet. Only a little more than a year old, it has the largest library of videos available on the Web. Most of them are pretty silly, but in among the shots of people getting hit in the crotch, and croc hunter Steve Irwin being fatally barbed by a stingray, are some other more curious offerings