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...Clinton says he doesn't want a pardon if he faces criminal charges. And Al Gore has responded to the issue of pardoning his boss if elected president, a la Gerald Ford, by suggesting Clinton's response makes this a moot point. But the Slick One and the Inventor of the Internet have, at times, been a bit disingenuous. If Gore's tireless fundraising efforts ultimately land him the good office on Pennsylvania Ave, look for waffle number one to be the Clinton pardon...
Instead, the perpetuals have become more sophisticated. Most (though not all) now admit their machines are using outside energy--usually via new theories of physics that physicists don't grasp yet. Joseph Newman, for example, a Mississippi inventor, promoted an "Energy Machine" in the 1980s that operated via "gyroscopic particles." More recently, New Jersey inventor Randell Mills has been pushing power from "hydrinos." Still others claim they're tapping the "zero-point energy" that fills all space. The first two are considered nonsensical, and while zero-point energy has a basis in science, using it to run a machine does...
...much like Mary Shelley's doctor, Morris is an inventor. His creation: the Interrotron, a camera with a TelePrompTer rigged over the lens to display Morris' image, so subjects can look right into the lens while talking to him. Letting them address viewers directly--hence the series title--the device changes the very structure of the narrative. "There's something powerful about eye contact," says Morris. "When someone looks into your eyes, are you aware of it? You betcha...
...here and there, like people in New York and Nebraska being charged over $90,000 for turning in rented videos late or the New York Times' automated phone system telling people that it was the Jan. 3, 1900 issue of the paper. Ironically, the homepage of the self-proclaimed "inventor of the Internet" Al Gore '69 displayed the date...