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Living in a city, you learn to filter out background noise. There’s a constant din of cars passing, doors closing, planes passing, computers humming. We dorm dwellers are especially adept at tuning it out. Richard Yates has a great passage about the sound of the city in a story called “Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired.” He writes that all the “little sounds add up and come together in a kind of hum. But it’s so faint—so very, very faint?...
...here at college, the practice of scheduling our days into red-penned oblivion means that for better or worse, our activities and consumption patterns have become a shorthand for who we actually are. What better way, then, to interact with each other than through sets of questionnaires which filter our acquaintances by way of these exacting criteria...
...version of democracy. But then, George W. Bush has spent the past three years packed in political bubble-wrap, sequestered from the realities of the public square. He doesn't read the papers, or so he says. The televisions in the West Wing are tuned to the flag-brandishing filter of Fox News. Bush rarely fields a hostile question--not even, sadly, at press conferences, where he selects his interrogators from a list prepared by staff. All that is about to change...
...stop spim? All IM programs give you the blunt option of blocking individual users or receiving IMs only from people on your contact lists. But only ICQ, a popular IM program available at icq.com lets you filter messages more selectively by blocking all Web links (most porn spim has links in it) or certain offensive words. None of these moves will totally solve the spim problem, but each is a step in the right direction. --By Anita Hamilton
...Dowling obtained a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) grant to study place-conditioning in zebrafish with relation to addiction to cocaine. The experiment starts with placing the zebrafish for a day in a normal tank, followed by a day in a tank with a cocaine-soaked piece of filter paper dangling at one end—a “zebrafish crackhouse,” the scientist quips. The third day, Dowling found that most fish would nearly immediately return to the end of the tank which previously housed the cocaine-soaked paper...