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...this recreational multitasking is not only a technical change but an assault on the very couch-potato philosophy of leisure, which I hereby dub chaise-pomme-de-terrisme. In today's productivity-minded, techno-Puritan culture, you are a sloth and a loser if you aren't doing at least two things at all times: making a cell-phone call while checking messages on your Blackberry, checking stock quotes while making love to your partner, and so on. It's strange to think of watching the tube as a throwback to a simpler, more contemplative day, but that's what...
...takes time to sift through the possibilities (and plenty of spiritual and technological dead ends). Some sites are affiliated with particular sects, some are the ungrounded fantasies of individuals. Others couch extremist rhetoric in reverent tones or disguise hatred as doctrine (the white supremacist Church of the Creator in the U.S., for example...
PEDAL POWER Worried your kids are turning into vididiots and couch potatoes? Looking for fun ways to exercise? Simply hook up any PlayStation to a CycleFX, available in July at cyclefx.com The $300-to-$500 exercise bike works as a controller for about 45 racing games for PlayStation and three for PlayStation2. The faster you pedal, the farther your car or speedboat travels. Who needs PowerBars when your pride is at stake...
...part, Rummy seems assured that he has the President's ear. At a recent weekend retreat to Camp David in the Maryland mountains, when the President and his entourage were headed off for a movie in the grounds' comfortable, couch-lined theater, Rumsfeld skipped the flick and thereby a chance to buddy up to the President. He shocked younger Bush aides by returning to his small cabin to catch up on some paperwork. Only the truly confident Washington player would have made such a choice...
...tricks [HEALTH, April 23]. To my great surprise, I found that my neck, which had been chronically stiff from two whiplash accidents, loosened up, and a weak ankle that constantly popped out from several sprains tightened up nicely. Today I come home from work ready to collapse on the couch, but instead I dutifully do my yoga routine and find myself feeling energized and relaxed. That yoga is some great stuff! MACK PAUL Norman, Okla...