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...Away Networking makes me deeply uncomfortable," says Brendan Barnes. That might seem like a fatal flaw for an entrepreneur with a strange passion to "reinvent the world of boring, burnt-coffee business conferences." But Barnes' discomfort led him to a gadget called Spotme, which makes its U.K. debut at his upcoming London Business Forum. Developed by a tiny Swiss company called Shockfish, Spotme thrusts the awkward business of fumbling for names and exchanging business cards into the 21st century. Upon entering a conference, delegates' pictures and details are taken, then beamed to Spotme devices issued to everyone in attendance. Scroll...
Gilliam, it must be said, is no wild-eyed egomaniac. He's an ironic, somewhat fatalistic chap whose chief flaw seems to be a sort of even-keeled optimism. He started this film with his eyes wide shut to the fact that he had in hand only about half the budget he required. This meant that he had no room for error, not even for a day's delay in shooting. So, of course, the errors started compounding immediately. It wasn't supposed to rain on the first day of shooting, but it did, turning the location into a quagmire...
John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Rankin--the U.S. produced men like that because slavery, the nation's fatal flaw, was awful enough to breed opponents of equal fury. In Beyond the River (Simon & Schuster; 333 pages), Ann Hagedorn tells Rankin's story as a window onto that era's most audacious utility, the Underground Railroad, the network of safe houses, sympathetic whites and free blacks that helped runaway slaves escape to the North. Rankin, his steadfast wife and reliable sons were among its major links--crucial enough that furious slaveholders put a bounty on the minister's head...
...Unfortunately, the novel's greatest flaw stems from its fanfiction beginnings. _Eugenesis_ operates on the assumption that its readers are well-versed in all things Transformers. There is no point of entry, no "our story to date" to familiarize the uninformed reader. The casual fan who picks up the novel out of nostalgia for a dimly remembered past will be disappointed. A spotty recollection of old cartoon shows and a catchy jingle ("Transformers...More than meets the eyes...Transformers..Robots in Disguise!") will avail one little. Readers are simply dropped into the middle of events without preparation or explanation, alienating...
...astonished to receive an e-mail from Stealth Signal, which had tracked the laptop to my home address and phone, even though my number is blocked. The company says it has a 63% recovery rate, a figure that climbs to 95% if the laptop broadcasts a signal. One flaw: reformatting the hard drive can also erase the tracking software...