Word: flossing
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...with cameras everywhere. I like anonymity so much that when I'm out doing errands in baggy pants and mud-caked garden clogs, I stumble around without my glasses so that I'm harder to recognize. But I assume there's no transaction that I carry out, from buying floss at the drugstore to getting cash from an ATM, that's not videotaped. Last week the city of Tampa, Fla., unveiled 36 cameras in its entertainment district downtown with new software to scan the crowds and compare the recorded faces with mug shots on file. But those cameras are also...
...what you pay for. The site I built using Homestead's software was functional, but frankly I find better-looking things between my teeth when I floss. In search of an upgrade, I tried some cheap, bare-bones shareware programs, but they were buggy and hard to use. Finally I picked up a couple of manly, high-end Web-building packages: Microsoft's FrontPage ($169) and NetObjects Fusion MX ($99). This is serious software aimed at small businesses that need a Web presence, rather than individuals who are building monuments to their self-esteem. I found both of them fairly...
Americans in general are a clean people. They like to spruce up even the hardest-to-reach places on their bodies. This is a country where dental floss comes in several flavors and people willingly engage in colonic irrigation to get all the nasties out of their large intestines--and where otherwise smart folk habitually ignore all warnings and put Q-Tips too far into their ears. But apparently Q-Tips aren't quite enough. The newest instrument for getting the muck out of that pesky ear canal is a lighted candle...
...over the quirks and quibbles that endear and annoy, the peculiarities that sometimes make fm a little too fm. we scrutinize the bags on our shoulders, the linings of our pockets and the merits of those new-fangled low-flow shower heads. if only we could remember to floss twice...
...what applications were available for a two-way pager, he slapped me with one star out of five, the lowest possible. So I decided to boost my ratings by answering the easy questions, like which brand of moisturizer I use and why my biggest pet peeve is people who floss their teeth in public...