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...That's fine. But don't forget about writing good songs while you're busy making sure every genre feels included in the conversation. From Blink-182's "Every Time I Look at You" to Sum 41's "Fat Lip" to Jettingham's "Cheating" the mode is uptempo, plaintive but not gloomy, a little angry but good-humored. For all that blending of rap and metal and punk, they're still craftsmanlike pop songs, peppy, hook-centered, reasonably entertaining. None of them are insufferable, but the only one that totally kicks ass is American Hi-Fi's "Vertigo," which happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Home in the Crowd | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...comes in the details. Actually playing the battles can be confusing and frustrating. First you must select which armies you wish to use and place them on the battlefield, programming in their initial actions. This works fine, but once you need to start issuing orders on the fly the controls are not intuitive. Even more infuriating, there are many repetitive dramatizations that cannot be turned off. Still, kudos to the designers for not making the battles too terribly hard, but just challenging enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thundering Hordes Invade Your Home | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...fine structure constant is such a fundamental value that almost everything else is built on it, from the speed of light to the size of an electron. It?s supposed to be what makes the universe what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There Nothing Certain? Even the Fundamental Laws of Physics May Be Mere Suggestions | 8/15/2001 | See Source »

...String theorists also hold that space contains tiny, unseen dimensions beyond the three (plus the fourth, time) we?re familiar with now - and one way to explain the mutability of the fine constant in deep space is by assuming the existence of those added dimensions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There Nothing Certain? Even the Fundamental Laws of Physics May Be Mere Suggestions | 8/15/2001 | See Source »

...billion years that the universe has been around (and that?s what looking into deep space is, looking back in time toward the Big Bang), the fine constant has changed with age, even the minor change of 1 in 100,000 these scientists are talking about has profound implications. This was a figure that was supposed to be rock solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There Nothing Certain? Even the Fundamental Laws of Physics May Be Mere Suggestions | 8/15/2001 | See Source »

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