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...Anytime you have a large database, you're going to have a few people who misuse it," says Glen Roberts, a computer consultant who has made a hobby of exploring the opportunities for database misuse. His ironically named Stalker's Home Page has become the definitive source for information about how your privacy can be violated online. His theory is that by exposing the most egregious Websites to public scrutiny, he will force them to shut down...
Installations like Kabakov's and Glen Seator's full-scale model of the museum director's office tilted at 45 degrees, are some of the most striking pieces in the show. Charles Long and Stereolab create a terrifically funny and participatory "lounge," the Amorphous Body Study Center. Here visitors can stop, listen to music and have a drink from a water cooler sprouting headphones, or join the throngs of amateur sculptors clustered around a giant mound of pink modeling putty. Like the exhibition's curators, Long and Stereolab understand the importance of putting on a good, crowd-pleasing show. Their...
...billion a year into the U.S. economy--much of it into communities that might otherwise be forced into economic hibernation. According to a new University of Maine study, snowmobilers bring nearly twice as much revenue to that state as do skiers. "Without snowmobiling, this town would be nothing," says Glen Loomis, mayor of West Yellowstone, Montana, which calls itself, apparently without irony, the world's capital of snowmobiling...
This disparity can be partly explained by the sudden drop in inflation, says Glen Stine, senior Penn budget official from 1982 to 1990, who is currently vice president for finance at the University of Colorado. "Nobody believed inflation would come down as much as it did, so you were always making projections of inflation that were perhaps too high." But from 1982 to 1989--long enough, presumably, for Penn's analysts to adjust to the new inflationary landscape--Penn's tuition hikes consistently outstripped inflation, rising annually from two to four times as fast...
Steering the night's entertainment into the realm of parody, "Speed-the-Play" skewers the theater of David Mamet. This skit contains miniature versions of four Mamet plays: "American Buffalo," "Speed-the-Plow," "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" and "Glengarry Glen Ross...