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...been two years since I bought--and set aside--my first cell phone. The horrid device in question was a bottom-of-the-line Ericsson that looked as if it had been designed in Stalinist Russia. I got it free with a one-year service contract. Sadly, phone, service (AT&T Wireless) and contract conspired against me. Either the Ericsson, which carried a battery charge for a good half-hour or so, was out of juice or I was in one of the many dead spots that appeared to plague my mobile life. After three months of this, I stopped...
...need awe in my life. The Internet experience doesn't awe me. The act of sitting at a computer is so unaesthetic and unsexy--all those cables, that horrid fluorescent screen, those puny two-dimensional images. Give me a human voice over e-mail. I like the sound of communicative delivery--the tone of voice, the innuendo. Of course, I appreciate convenience when I'm using a search engine to find gifts, vacations or pieces of information. But as a way to spend leisure time--not for me. The closer the World Wide Web seems to bring us together...
With twenty-eight days of horrid weather...
...today who his heroes were, he names two: Thomas Edison and Walt Disney. The former was a brilliant innovator and a horrid businessman, the latter a good innovator and a great businessman. It wasn't Disney's movies that impressed Bezos but his theme parks. He went to Disney World six times. "The thing that always amazed me was how powerful his vision was," Bezos says. "He knew exactly what he wanted to build and teamed up with a bunch of really smart people and built it. Everyone thought it wouldn't work, and he had to persuade the banks...
...literature-to-film-genre will be the movie translation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which began filming last month. Spread out over more than a thousand pages in three volumes, the book is notoriously difficult to film, the last attempt being Ralph Bakshi's horrid 1978 cartoon. How will director Peter Jackson satisfy the book's millions of fans? The fact is, he won't. But perhaps he can at least satisfy himself, and give the world an excellent version of one person's view of Middle-Earth; and that's really...