Word: actualizations
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Clippy haters of Harvard: there’s a reason for your rage. An actual academic paper has concluded that the default character for Microsoft’s Office Assistant is “almost a textbook case of what not to do in designing a user interface agent...
...enjoyed it,” she said. “But I’m also interested in hearing more about what his actual plans of action...
...President Bush's plan to invade Iraq ? More than 1,500 American soldiers have died in Iraq because someone blundered, yet no heads have rolled as a result of the White House's use of suspect or flawed information to instigate an unnecessary war. Until blame is placed on actual operatives, clerks, bureaucrats and elected officials, the commission's report means nothing. Holmes Brannon Woodland Park, Colorado, U.S. Gaining by Losing Your numbers column said that John Antioco, CEO of the Blockbuster video - rental chain [April 11], received total compensation of $51.6 million last year as the company lost...
...brief appearance at the beginning as a cranky farmer, and is a Crimson editor) juggles the antics well, allowing the characters to go off on tangents and rants but never letting us lose sight of the main thread of the plot. The tangents are usually more entertaining than the actual storyline, as is often the case in broad comedy. Tranio’s scheming is entertaining, but it is more amusing when he starts going on and on about how clever he is, or alternately how utterly screwed...
...college. Over the course of the year, I have been updated, via IM and drunken phone calls, on a series of more and less licit college firsts. His first Spring Fling—which, so far as I can gather, is like our Springfest with more alcohol and an actual band—was last weekend. His first brush with campus police, first fraternity rush season, and first sexile came considerably before that. His breathless and quasi-coherent accounts of college life make me nostalgic for a time when so much of college was new. When he came...