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...distracts you," says Casey McArdle, a graduate student in Fort Wayne, Indiana, who says he gets at least one spim a day on his computer. "With e-mail, you just go click, click, click, delete." Is there any easy way to stop spim? All IM programs give you the blunt option of blocking individual users (known as "bozo filters") or receiving instant messages only from people on your contact lists. And all the services can identify and block some spim before it reaches your screen. But only ICQ, a popular IM program available at icq.com, lets you filter messages more...
...better the relationship between FAS professors and the president. Kirby should try to get more information to professors who are feeling disenfranchised and deceived, or at least explain to them why they aren’t being consulted. Instead, Kirby stayed mum while his Faculty was given a blunt message from President Summers in November: that, like it or not, they don’t have a vote when it comes to Allston...
Trying another tactic, Freud delves into our inner psyche in an attempt to answer these elusive questions. He suggests that when searching for their mates, humans look for qualities that are most reminiscent and characteristic of the parent of the opposite sex. But to be blunt, I still can’t stomach the idea of Oedipus and his mother, let alone think of my father as a sexual being. And if I were ever to come into contact with the pickup line “you remind me of my mother,” I would choke...
TERESA HEINZ: Kerry's blunt, foreign-born, $500 million wife: Is she a plus or a minus...
...stop spim? All IM programs give you the blunt option of blocking individual users or receiving IMs only from people on your contact lists. But only ICQ, a popular IM program available at icq.com lets you filter messages more selectively by blocking all Web links (most porn spim has links in it) or certain offensive words. None of these moves will totally solve the spim problem, but each is a step in the right direction. --By Anita Hamilton