Word: do-it-yourself
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...songs are, according to the liner notes, “mainly ramblings on our cereal box of life, the sparkly sparkly pussy.” Only instead of Blink’s surf-punk bar-chord pop, the whole shebang is framed by some beautifully recorded but distinctly do-it-yourself acousticness, with frequent accompanying howls and yelps...
TOOTH BLEACHING If you have a cavity, using a do-it-yourself teeth-whitening kit could cause infection and nerve damage because the bleaching agent goes straight to the gums. Plus, oral surgeons say, the kits don't always do a great job. Best to avoid stains by brushing after every meal...
...want erudition, lucidity and fine judgment, read George Bernard Shaw on classical music or Alfred Kazin on books. But for sheer pinwheeling, exclamation-pointed opinion, there is no beating the regular folk who have popped up all over the Internet. Everywhere in cyberspace there are Web pages where do-it-yourself critics hold forth about movies, books, music and restaurants, to say nothing of airlines, power tools, and disposable diapers. What you discover at these sites is generally heartfelt and sometimes well informed and well written. Or breathless, obvious and ungrammatical--that's democracy for you. It can also...
...early history of do-it-yourself criticism, a signal event was the rise of the paperback Zagat restaurant guides, which compile the opinions of actual customers who replied to questionnaires. Beginning in 1979 with a single volume devoted to New York City, the Zagat empire has expanded to 45 cities and, of course, a website. There is comfort in knowing that the Zagat reviewers are ordinary diners who paid for their meals and had the real experience of a place, not the special treatment accorded to food critics who might be known to the chef. "Some critics sniff, Well, what...
...traders from $2,000 to $25,000 and reduce the time they have to meet margin calls from seven days to five. NASD has also decreed that online recommendations must be tailored to a customer's investment goals and assets. But this long-awaited cybersuitability rule doesn't mean that do-it-yourself investors who sign up for a stock picker's e-mail alerts can start blaming the messenger. "The customer is setting the parameters, not us," says Schwab spokesman Glen Mathison...