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MONEY: Gas gambits, credit cards get PIN-pricked, Google mail...
...tempting to call this resurgence a victory lap for free-spirited artists over the big, bad corporations, but that would be giving Prince too much--and too little--credit. He may have briefly adopted the language of artistic brotherhood in his fight with Warner, but Prince didn't pick up the face pencil to fight for the Hoobastanks and Josh Grobans of the world. The principle at stake was never creative Utopianism: it was narcissism. Prince believed that he was a genius and that his tiniest musical doodle merited commercial attention. (He even declined to do phone interviews, saying...
...genius, Prince has decided he would rather be a rock star. And Musicology reminds you he is still capable of being the world's greatest. As a Jehovah's Witness, Prince has said he will try to abstain from getting too dirty, and give the man credit: he manages to hold out for an entire song. But by the time the second track, Illusion, Coma, Pimp & Circumstance, comes on, he's pushing the throttle with some funk four-four and singing about a gigolo and his old bag of a client. "Ugly! So ugly, the bitch beyond compare/Dropped a couple...
...REBATE CARD. These gas-company cards give you credit on your bill--in some cases as much as a 10% rebate. Most gas-rebate cards require you to stick with one brand, such as BP or Citgo. But the Chase PerfectCard and the AAA Platinum Plus card are among the few that can be used at any gas station...
When IBM inventor Ed Kelley suddenly discovered that his telephone calling card had been canceled--the number had been stolen and used for exorbitant calls to Central America and Asia--he decided he'd had enough. To put an end to swiped identities and pilfered credit cards, he and IBM engineer Franco Motika set about developing a new generation of smart cards. The recently patented, theftproof card contains a computer chip and features a tiny numerical keypad right on its face. The cardholder inputs a PIN, stored directly in the card's circuitry; the same code must be entered before...