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Newsgroups are network abstractions where participants--many of them with untraceable accounts and pseudonyms--post messages for the public to read. Because of this high level of anonymity (for many users, read: adventure), some newsgroups become harmless forums where shy housewives may live out their fantasies, college kids can plan communist revolutions and strangers are introduced to one another. The cyberspace becomes a surreal, virtual world where characters exist only by the words their creators choose to write. And nothing more...
...basically pretty harmless, but kind of stupid," Everett said. "It's not that funny, not even original...
...said he wanted me to sign this paper for experimental research. He told me I didn't have an obligation to be in it. He said I could quit if I wanted, but he wouldn't advise that. He said the drugs they would be giving were completely harmless. He said the hospital would kick me out on the streets if I didn't participate. That was the word he used: kick...
...first glance, Cole's attempt to break into Guinness might seem like a harmless teenage prank. But, curiously, Cole bragged about the world record for years...
...artists to interest himself in graffiti. Forty years ago, the term didn't suggest city kids' spraying their aggressive colored tags all over subway cars and buildings. It wasn't bound up with the seizure and degradation of public space. It was, so to speak, more muted and pastoral: harmless scratches, small obscenities, chalk on Roman distemper. To adopt graffiti to the painted canvas was to pay homage to European art informel -- Fautrier, Wols and especially Jean Dubuffet. Their influence plays on Twombly's earliest paintings of the 1950s, with their lumpish glandular forms, the movement of the paint slowed...