Some days I just don’t understand how quantifier domain restriction is meant to work. This is from this morning’s New York Times.

To feed the appetite for more information from more sources, the Web magazine Salon has started a feature called “War of Words,” which was the first to highlight an item from The Sydney Morning Herald that reported the use of napalm by United States troops.

First what? First website? I doubt it – smh.com.au beat them to that by a ways. First American website? Well, perhaps. But this is the internet – who cares? Or, perhaps better, who should care? I just put this down to more evidence that the globalisation movement has a long way to go before it succeeds where it really matters: making people stop caring about little things like borders.