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...long, 35-ft.-wide lot. (Transients can rent an unoccupied lot for $50 a night.) There is not much privacy, but that's O.K. because bus people tend to be outdoor extroverts. "The difference between us and condo people," says Pallin, "is that at 5 o'clock, condo owners go inside, and we come out for cocktails...
...game, the movie plot has Croft setting out in search of an ancient and mystical artifact: in this case, the two components of the Clock of Ages, a dusty device that tracks the alignment of the planets and may help solve the mystery of her father's death. But there are changes in the way Croft goes about her business. Far from being a full-time tomb raider, she now has a day job as a Pulitzer prizewinning photojournalist (why or when she has time to do this is unclear, but cameras and prints are scattered around Croft Manor...
...create the latest, greatest, coolest thing," says Pogo CEO Erick Hackenburg. "One hundred million Americans play cards every day; 50 million play bingo. We've just paid attention to what people do." So go ahead, squander your time on that pricey PC playing virtual cribbage until 3 o'clock in the morning. After all, you're hardly the only one hooked on silly sites...
WAKE-UP CALL There's nothing like radio luck in the morning--the first notes of your favorite song jostling you out of sleep. But why leave it to chance? The MP3 O'Clock ($55 at artistdirect.com can play digital music clips (or even your sweetheart's voice) instead of a buzzer or the radio. The website offers free MP3s and wake-up messages from pop stars to go with its colorful plastic alarm clocks, but you can also use your own digital files. Note to oversleepers: the 50-sec. clips don't leave much room for extra winks...
...best. If the Oscars are not a grand pageant of celebrity entitlement and hubris, then they are nothing. What you take away from the Oscars is not how early you went to bed that year: it's the hysterical Angelina Jolie moments, the irritating passive-aggressives saying, "Turn that clock off, you're making me nervous!" The latter comment came from the long-winded Roberts, who began "I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here," but even with her whooping and unashamed use of her star power to bully the conductor in the orchestra...