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...Wednesday as nature served notice of its potency. For two dark, cool and eerie daytime minutes, the sun was a black hole in the sky as the moon shuttered parts of the earth from its rays. And hundreds of millions of people from England to India dropped everything to behold the power -? most evident by its absence -? of the star?s light. Even as thick cloud obscured many in Britain and Western Europe from a clear view of the last solar eclipse of the millennium, the masses crowding beaches, city streets and autobahns felt the awesome minutes of daytime darkness...
...That was only the screensaver. There is more where that came from. Obey my commandments or a virus could come to pass that would bring the information age to a shuddering halt. I did a flood once, and behold, I can do viruses. Once men tried to reach heaven by building a tower, and I made their formats incompatible. I could do this again. Or I can do love and redemption. I am, after all, God. P.S. Your move...
...made the long, long time ago seem just as grungily medieval as it was techno-cool--but it's still pretty darn impressive. Even while the film's big showpiece, a pod race of gladiator-like proportions, plays a bit like a video game, it's a marvel to behold how far the achievements of special effects have come...
...were getting nowhere. My son's game habit was resisting all the negative reinforcement I could dish out. In fact, the habit was awesome to behold. Nat would arrive home from school and be drawn, as if by some tractor beam, straight to the den. When his friends were present, there was a nearly indecipherable babble: "Hit Bongo Bongo with the ice arrows." "Switch to the Biggoron sword." "Use the Lens of Truth...
...like Stravinsky, they aspire to create a magnum opus of the season's rituals. With ardor, with bags of dirt, they have already begun to transform the Yard from a relatively pleasant, serene meadow into a confusion of cordons, chemical grass simulacra and bare patches of earth hideous to behold. Harvard subsists on tradition: the Yard is made repellent each spring and this one is no different. Why bother, one is compelled to wonder. Why go to all the time and expense for a lawn destined for a life so nasty, brutish and short...