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...soccer-mom heresy. Instead of heading to soccer practice, Olsen drove Renee, 10, to the Bookends bookstore in Ridgewood, N.J., where they whiled away 2 1/2 hours listening to Lemony Snicket--Renee's favorite author--read from his new book and lingered for an autograph and a chat with the writer afterward. Then, instead of snatching a fast-food dinner from a drive-through window so they could rush off to their next activity, they drove home and, joined by Renee's older brother Scott, leisurely cooked burgers on the family grill. "She's only 10, and there are plenty...
That's the idea behind a new online service called There, which launches next week for Windows PCs ($50 a year at there.com) Think of it as a 3-D chat room: your onscreen characters talk as you type, with speech balloons coming out of their heads. They blink, breathe and nod when you type yes. Start throwing in actions like winking, yawning, gasping, even burping--and what you've got is conversation that looks like a cartoon yet feels uncannily real...
...video game. Nobody's keeping score. It's more like a massive playdate. Everything from the cute Toy Story--style graphics to the clothing stores where characters can dress up in the latest fashions (provided courtesy of Levi's and Nike) is designed to give you something to chat about...
...laugh. Or else he would cry. Or maybe even vomit. In a feat of sleuthing that is the stuff of Columbo reunion specials, Hartman recently realized that the kinky cybersex fiend who divulged all of his most perverse sexual fantasies to him on a gay online chat room over the summer and his new resident tutor are, in fact, one-in-the-same. “It’s especially ironic,” says Hartman, “because he described himself as a serious animal lover at our first entryway meeting?...
...cause of her dismay? Call it family-happiness envy. Linda watched her sister-in-law Jan chat with her two grown children as five grandchildren roughhoused on the lawn; everyone lived nearby, and gatherings like this one were spontaneous and commonplace. For Linda and her husband Bill, on the other hand, visits to their two children were planned well in advance and punctuated by long absences. "Our children were living 3,000 miles away," she says. "We had lots of phone calls, and we got together for special occasions, but that's not the same as casual, no-special-reason...