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...find the place weird, but can't quite explain why. On a rare trip last month, another traveler told me it was like going to ?the moon, with people.? I had my own epiphany: North Korea is Pleasantville. Just as in the Gary Ross satire of the 1950s sit-com vision of reality, life in the kingdom of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il is always as pleasant as a picture postcard. The streets are tidy and orderly, the citizens patriotic and the children sing in perfect harmony. From the plastic flowers in the hotels to the plastic music...
...addition to approaching illegality, dot-com poker also undermines the social nature of card-playing, the very characteristic that has preserved its popularity over the years. A web gamer may gain familiarity with JaCKA55’s tendency to fold early or might begin to expect HOUSEthis to bluff with a six pair when playing online, but he won’t learn how to bond with the boys while placing bets on the net. (I apologize for assuming a male subject throughout this piece…women and cards deserve another column entirely...
Technorati and budding tech entrepreneurs trucked through Saturday’s rain to be schooled on start-ups and be told that the economy is on the verge of another dot-com frenzy at Startup School, a one-day symposium designed to promote start-up companies. Y Combinator, a tech company incubator, teamed up with Harvard Computing Society (HCS) to host the event. The organizers brought cognoscenti including Michael Mandel, the chief economist at BusinessWeek, to lecture to the 500-person audience in the Science Center. Mandel summarized the dot-com boom of the late 1990s in four words...
...earnest books like Rainbow Road (Simon & Schuster), in which three gay teens take a road trip, are coming this month. Gay kids can subscribe to the 10-month-old glossy YGA Magazine (YGA stands for "young gay America") and meet thousands of other little gays via young gay america com or outproud.org Gay boys can chat, vote for the Lord of the Rings character they would most like to date--Legolas is leading--learn how to have safe oral sex and ogle pictures of young men in their underwear on the ruttish chadzboyz.com Not that you have to search...
Last May, the venture-capital firm Accel Partners announced it would invest $13 million in .com. Founder and CEO Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06-’08 said at the time that the influx of money would allow the site to improve the display of advertisements and add new features...