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Jeeves, of course, is not a panacea for the difficulties of the Information Age. Questions outside the scope of Jeeves' knowledge base, such as those of a particularly specific or technical nature, tend to leave the user stranded in the glut of Internet information. Although Jeeves attempts to compensate for this behavior by submitting unfamiliar questions to popular search engines, this hardly provides a particularly useful mechanism for searching...
...glut of architects. A surfeit of architects. Whatever the collective noun for architects is, there sure were a lot of them visiting the Graduate School of Design last week. Following Richard Meier earlier in the week, Renzo Piano, one of the world's foremost architects and the man responsible for the planned revamping of the Harvard University Art Museums, spoke to a packed Piper Auditorium last Thursday. Famous for his work in such major spaces as Houston's Menil Collection, Osaka's Kansai Airport and Paris's Centre Georges Pompidou, Piano's speech attracted so large a crowd that...
...Wall Street, investors have a word for such a collection: overhead. Even before the market tanked, analysts were marking down casino stocks on the fundamentals--too much capacity--and they are worried that this latest building boom will crap out. The Vegas Valley, for instance, is heading into a glut of 127,000 hotel rooms--up a scary 20% from the current level. That's one reason gaming stocks such as Mirage's have lost one-third to one-half of their value in the past year. The weakening global economy is also taking its toll. The high rollers from...
From here, it seems that the most recent decade when folks looked really sharp was the '50s. Nice haircuts, good posture, a coolly casual clothes sense. Every decade since, as shown in the current glut of reflective movies, looks tacky, toadish, its own parody...
Everyone at this year's Just for Laughs festival in Montreal--the comic equivalent of the PBA championships--designed his or her act for the television execs in the audience. The art of telling jokes died with the comedy glut of the '80s, and in its place has grown not the rarefied, cerebral, arch alternacomedy that Janeane Garofalo, HBO's Mr. Show and Andy Kaufman-reincarnation Andy Dick have hyped but two much simpler comedic forms: characters and physical gags--the two forms that TV houses most comfortably. Cable has created an endless number of Comedy Central-ready troupes: there...