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...wouldn't exist without ad revenue. And so I am grateful; truly I am. But lately things have got out of hand. Online advertisers aren't content simply to make us dizzy with their blinking, flashing ads. And they don't just taunt us with false dialogue boxes and CLICK HERE buttons. Like panhandlers refusing to step aside, they cause ads to pop up right in our face, partly covering the sites we want to see. This happens everywhere from our own time.com to places like amazon.com abcnews.com and lycos.com The ads won't budge unless we acknowledge their presence...
...Hundreds of us crowd the "tree that looks like an elephant," squinting, tilting heads. A cry attracts a crush of butting bodies and cameras, trying to steal the squealer's view of this miracle of botany. A sort of stop-start rhythm develops. "Eek!" jostle, click. "Eek!" bustle, click. I can just about make out what all the fuss is about. The banyan does have four roots that could be legs and a longer one that might be a trunk. But where's the tail? Or the tusks? Or the ears? On the other hand, it is a spitting image...
...summer before the Mercury went on the air. Many more shows - 18 of 22 "Mercury?s" and 29 of 56 episodes of its sponsored successor, "Campbell Playhouse" - can be heard with a RealPlayer attach-ment on your current entertainment furniture of choice. This is a plea and an order: click, download, close your eyes and surrender to astonishment. In many, most of the shows, you?ll find great pieces of radio...
Ethical standards in cyberspace are also a work in progress. Sites that participate in Amazon's "Associates Program" can earn commissions when people reading their reviews click on a hyperlink to Amazon and buy the product being reviewed. The payments are modest, up to 15%, but any sales commission amounts to an incentive to post favorable comments. Meanwhile, JoeytheFilmGeek and the Flick Filosopher write screenplays, which raises the question of whether they can objectively review product by the same film studios they might hope to interest in their scripts. In her recent rave review of Francis Coppola's Apocalypse...
...Click here to read our moral-compass guide to the science and ethics of cloning...