Word: geeking
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...agreement, Napster will develop a business model that should allow record companies and performers to be paid for their music. To help the tiny, 53-employee company overcome the enormous technological hurdles involved, Bertelsmann has opened a $50 million line of credit that could easily double. (Now hiring: any geek who thinks he or she can come up with a way to keep music files simultaneously accessible and copyright protected.) The Germans agreed that once the new model is in place, Bertelsmann's subsidiary BMG Entertainment will make its music catalog available and drop out of the copyright-infringement lawsuit...
...would have gone even it if had snowed," agreed his friend Zach, also 9, who said he was dressed as a "geek from the future...
...tall pole--a "ghost light," meant to ward off spirits. That image--the idea of the theater as a welcoming place where the light never goes out--sparked in him "the fantasy that I might extract some glittering consolation prize for being different and alone." Rich became a theater geek nonpareil, an awkward Jewish kid who, making his Bar Mitzvah, recognized the designer of the temple's ark from his set-design credits in Playbill...
...opponent, the incumbent Slade Gorton, is old enough at 72 to be grandfather to the average tech geek. Yet he's the best friend Microsoft has in the Senate, where he has tirelessly attacked the Justice Department's lawsuit. The more than $103,000 that Bill Gates and his employees have donated to Gorton is one piece of evidence that he's "the Senator from Microsoft," as he has called himself. "I certainly am proud to have that moniker," says Gorton. He says that on the campaign trail, his zing at the antitrust suit is "one of the best applause...
...well known, Al Gore didn't invent the Internet. But he's assiduously courting the geek vote. There's a secret message on Gore's campaign Web page that can be viewed only by those who know how, and care enough, to check out the site's HTML, top, the programming language that determines how a site looks and runs. George W.'s page, bottom, has less behind the curtain...