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Though that scene isn't with us yet, it's feeling eerily close. Standards for room-to-room PC networking and the conversant appliance continue to creep toward the mainstream (and each other). Madison Avenue's trumpets blare for bold (and still overpriced) idiot-box breakthroughs like high-definition television (HDTV) and $15,000 gas-plasma sets that cling to the wall like framed art. Still, 1998 was a year for improvements...
...limitless rainbow of graphical snippets used to perpetually reinvent one's avatar: photos and drawings, bonnets and six-guns, mascots and blackboards, halos and bongs. Palace vets amass hoards of props and trade them like baseball cards. Sites on the indispensable A-to-Z List of active palaces blare come-ons like HUGE PROP MALL! Collect enough props and build a cool palace, and you can stage a runway show in your own private Versailles. "Vanity pages built the Web," says Randy Farmer, co-founder of Electric Communities, the company that bought the Palace earlier this year and is behind...
This June," the promos blare, "the media's free ride comes to a screeching halt." That pitch can be seen on buses rolling down the streets of New York City, but it's not exactly a line to stop traffic. Didn't the media's free ride end years ago? Haven't we all grown used to the cycle in which every big news story, from Princess Diana to Bill and Monica, is followed by the inevitable how-the-media-screwed-up mea culpas...
...great game shows of bygone days remain fixed in our subconscious. The obnoxious blare of a strike on "Family Feud," the whammies dancing across the screen in "Press Your Luck," the frenetic gesticulations of contests on the "$25,000 Pyramid:" all are permanently imprinted in the minds of many in our generation. Possibly Harvard's "Game Show Guru," Mandel N. Ilagan '99 admits that his first memories of television came in the form of game shows...
...does not pass during which I do not hear the argument over boxers and briefs. Strangers curse at each other. Commercials blare out conflicting messages. Roommates quarrel while doing laundry, each vying for moral supremacy. There is never a middle ground; each camp swears it will never compromise. Party identification is often part of introductions as a litmus test for personality. The question is foremost in the psyche of American pop culture: boxers or briefs...