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...never became a performer (like his comrades Burroughs and Mailer); his shy demeanor was doubtless the deciding factor. He can be seen in only four films: "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (1976) (as a journalist, in the restored version), the documentaries "The Queen" (1968) (where he judges a drag contest) and "Burroughs" (1983), and the infamous Rolling Stones film-portrait "Cocksucker Blues" (1972). The last-mentioned has never been officially available (the Stones hate it - but tend to excerpt it in their authorized video compilations), but it offers the longest glimpse of Southern onscreen. Shaggy and stoned, he dallies...
...That could be particularly hard on California, where consumers and companies are bracing for a summer of blackouts, thanks to the Golden State's famously botched deregulation plan. California produces 13% of the U.S. gdp and could become a national crisis all by itself if energy woes drag it into a slump. Richardson chides President George W. Bush for refusing to put temporary price caps on wholesale electric rates in California, which have risen to an astonishing $1,900/MW-h, vs. a precrisis $30/MW-h. But even if there were such caps, the former Energy Secretary adds, this would be "a horrendous...
...some ground rules: I didn't want to sully my hands with any of that HTML stuff--none of those pesky >'s and /'s for me--or worry my pretty little head over any instruction manuals. I didn't want to do anything more than cut and paste, drag and drop. Fortunately, there are plenty of software tools that will let me do just that. They're called WYSIWYG editors...
Many of the innovations that get us excited seem to be a drag on the human evolutionary scale. Once upon a time kids just went out and played ball with one another. Eventually computer games allowed us to sit in our rooms and play virtual baseball. Progress! With the Internet, kids can now compete against other players online, in real time! Interactivity! What's next? Some day someone will figure out a way to truly experience the "feel" of throwing and catching a virtual ball remotely, through complicated algorithms developed by Indian software engineers (who, by the way, play cricket...
...write myself a note, then drag the Chatpen across the send box. The note appears almost instantaneously on the laptop screen. I draw a flower: on the paper it's in plain black ink, but I use the Chatpen to assign colors to the different lines. I check "send" again: a pretty, colorful flower appears on the laptop screen. O.K., not so pretty: I'm as bad at drawing as writing, but the colors are good. For variation I write on a Post-it note, then on an organizer. It all works perfectly. Regrettably my handwriting doesn't improve: some...