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...contact (broad daylight—ho, ho). But just as Lady MacBeth, even with all of Neptune’s seas, could not wash Banquo’s blood from off her ensanguined mitts, or whatever, so too is it impossible to delete the fargin’ Snood icon which sits blithely in the Windows toolbar—a constant reminder that I should be more careful about to whom I give access to my hard drive...
...future, when the panacea for venereal disease is finally discovered, a new form of highly contagious and often unexpungeable affliction will excite the public’s fear: the download. Symptoms: icon blemishes, commonly found in the bottom right corner of the screen; a geologically protracted start-up delay; and the PC deathknell, “Fatal error has occurred. You will lose any unsaved information because you just had to download that pirated Backgammon software. Nice going, chump...
Oftentimes you don’t even know you’re afflicted—that is, until one unremarkable day when the blue-and-white Ghost of Napster Past grins at you from his spot next to the innocuous Printer icon. By then, of course, it is too late...
Hayao Miyazaki is frowning. The director's latest animated feature film Spirited Away is hurtling past Titanic to become Japan's top-grossing movie release ever. The magical fable has cemented his status as a cultural icon in Japan. And his pet project?a whimsically playful children's museum on the outskirts of Tokyo celebrating his work?is finally a reality. But it's Sept. 12, the day after terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington took the lives of thousands, and the 60-year-old director is angry. His mouth is set in a straight line behind...
...product,” Harris explains. “It’s unprecedented.” No one will disclose the exact fee for the contract, but according to Karamchandani, it was in excess of $10,000. That price tag may still be small for stealing the ShuttleGirl icon from the student body, but Harvard thought the image wouldn’t appeal to the entire University community. “Certainly the majority of riders are students, but we offer the service to faculty and staff too. Shuttletime matched better to our mission,” Harris says...