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Still, SpongeBob SquarePants belongs to a different breed of contemporary cartoon than Family Guy or The Simpsons. To begin with, its tone can’t exactly be described as one of social commentary. Its characters inhabit an underwater world that is in no meaningful way an avatar of our own. Anthropomorphic sea creatures might lie only a few steps beyond an alcoholic talking dog, but those steps cover significant distance. The only thing the three shows share is armies of loyal viewers that span the spectrum from toddlers to their parents to college students...
...bask in whatever glory can be got from tomorrow’s effortless victory over the Bulldogs, we must remember to not be too cruel to that breed of undergraduate, so faithful in their defeat. Yes, there is a kind of beauty in the simplemindedness that keeps Yalies coming back year after year only to face loss after loss...
Wirehog, a new breed of file-sharing program spawned by the creator of thefacebook.com, made its official debut on the Harvard and Stanford campuses yesterday with hundreds of students signing up to use the service...
...news reader as soon as they're published," he says. "I no longer have to spend ages scrabbling around lots of different sites every morning." Andrews is one of a growing legion of Web users who've embraced Really Simple Syndication, and this burgeoning movement has convinced a new breed of online entrepreneur that RSS might also turn out to spell really stunning success. As the Web grows ever more labyrinthine and unwieldy, an increasing number of sites are turning to RSS to make the quest for content - whether it's stock tips, headlines, sports news or even the latest...
...glitches--a character walking offscreen, for example--to their company's programming department, which repairs the game's computer code. Then the game goes back to the testing department for further scrutiny, and the cycle repeats, often for months, until the game is bug free. "Testers are a special breed," says Richard Ditton, executive vice president of Incredible Technologies, the company that makes Golden Tee. "They somehow delight in breaking things." But he adds, "If they tell us not to ship a product...