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...actually my overall experience with the acquisition of a cell phone has been underwhelming: is this it? This is selling out? I don’t know what I thought would happen—that my turning on my cell phone would be accompanied by a flash of lightening and a puff of sulfurous smoke? That I would begin to exude a sort of louche glamour? But except for the occasional sound of “Silver Bells,” nothing much has changed...
...Flash Drives...
After the first time your computer crashes, you swear you’ll never lose another file. But even with the ease of CD-burning, backing-up can be a chore. USB Flash Drives come to the rescue. The portability of these key-ring size drives makes them perfect for transferring information from one computer to another. And with the increased memory capacity of the latest models, flash drives could be the next big way to back-up files. Try the Migo Smart USB Flash Drive—it comes in 256 MB, 512 MB and 1 GB sizes...
DIED. HARRY LAMPERT, 88, original illustrator of superhero the Flash, nemesis of such bad guys as the Thinker and the Shade; in Boca Raton, Fla. Lampert and writer Gardner Fox first introduced the "fastest man alive" in 1940 as the Golden Age of comic books was just unfolding. Their Flash--a scientist who could morph into a red-and-blue--clad speedster with a winged helmet--was an immediate hit. But Lampert, who preferred drawing gags for Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post, left after a few issues, later founding an award-winning ad agency...
Despite its Flash Gordon looks and unorthodox design, SpaceShipOne was able to more than match Shepard's trailblazing journey. In June it became the first privately funded spacecraft. In October it clinched the $10 million Ansari X Prize as the first such craft to travel to space twice in two weeks. Thanks to the backing of two starry-eyed billionaires...