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Mike Bloomberg took some time away from his busy schedule declaring idiot holidays and deciding what soft drinks our city's school kids should drink to condemn Toquir Choudhri, recently brought up on charges for surfing the web on the job. (Admit it, you just looked to see who was near your cubicle.) Choudhri was cleared by Judge John Spooner, who likened surfing the web to reading a newspaper and noted that working for the city's Department of Education was punishment enough. Bloomberg, doing his best Giuliani impression, dismissed the judge's opinion as "advisory" and revealed that Choudhri visited 300 web sites in two days. Now, we surf the web for a living; if we see more than fifty sites a day our eyes glaze over. 300 in two days? Clearly, this guy is way too efficient to be on the city's payroll.

Wild on the Web [NYP]