Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they come in and look at his game collection? McLaughlin, it transpires, has been making copies of more than 250 CD-ROM game titles for the Sony PlayStation. He's been selling them via his website, hundreds a week, at $20 a pop--around 60% off the cover price. Fast-forward to last month, and McLaughlin cuts a deal, pays a large fine and makes a very public apology. And the forces of law and order confiscate his PlayStation...
...easy task," says Kevin Hause, a gaming analyst with tech experts IDT. "But these games are expensive. Compared with MP3, the desire to do this is greater." And the opportunity, despite the risk of felony prosecution, is growing. Illegally copied games sites are proliferating so fast that stamping them out is akin to "playing wack-a-mole at the county fair," says Kathlene Karg, one of the IDSA investigators who raided McLaughlin's operation. Case in point: the IDSA managed to shut down 400 sites in the past year--impressive but less than 1% of the estimated total...
...what sort of dad is Brott when he's not washing dishes? Sitting in a fast-food steakhouse with Tirzah, now a third-grader, and Talya, a kindergartner, all theory dissolves. Laughing with the girls as they create minor chaos, Brott is clearly more permissive than some moms might be. "This is not a stylish kind of thing," he says. "I don't think it's going to 'help me pick up chicks.' I do it because I love doing it." Still, there's unresolved anger eating at Brott. For men like him--the sensitive superdads so longed...
...name really fast, and people will think you're talking about Austin Powers. The Harvard University Art Museum proudly presents "The Annual E. Power Biggs Memorial Bach Recital," with Werner Jakob, founder and artistic director of Nuremberg's Musica Sacra Festival. Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland St. 495-4544. 3 p.m. $8 students...
...film was Jim Carrey's break-through dramatic role, viewers remember this cautionary tale as an actor's triumph, not that of a director. Third, and most damning: Weir did a good job directing Truman, but perhaps he was too good for his own good (say that five times fast). In creating a dark, surveillance-oriented world, the director forced himself to reach an unappealing level of coldness. Though effective, this style is inevitably quite alienating, and the Academy wants to see more heart in a winner...