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...Good for tourists, perhaps, and a real live test-bed for the company's ambitions to Google-ize far larger metropolises. But the reality in Nanaimo is that many locals are entirely unaware of the new electronic pathways for navigating their city. "I think it's pretty cool we're the Google Earth capital of the world," said Jakob Brzovic, 25, who works in a local electronics retail store. "I just wish somebody would have told...
...band exited the stage. The blue glow that cast across the audience from dozens of cell phones was a fitting post-millennial substitute for the yellow-orange flicker of lighters of the bygone 1990s. Yet soon enough, emotions pushed to fever pitch with the performance of “Ize of the World,” one of the strongest tracks from the new album. The guitarists unleashed, twisting and jumping as Casablancas nailed the impossibly high vocal line.The audience, comprised of both long-time and new fans, was uniformly ecstatic throughout the show.Brandon Jernigan, 20, who had never seen...
...rounds in recent weeks, purporting to transcribe a speech by President Bush. With the help of Photoshop, its authors have replaced key words with the logos of major oil companies: “We SHELL® not EXXON®erate Saddam Hussein for his actions. We will MOBIL®ize to meet this threat to vital interests in the Persian GULF®,” and so on. In case the none-too-subtle point manages to elude its audience, a punchline is included—“It’s The Oil, Stupid...
...what all smart high school kids do when they can't win the presidency of an existing club: I started my own. Figuring the best place to begin cleaning up is your own home, I decided to start a committee to decent-ize my own columns, which might, for example, get rid of "whores" in the middle of the preceding paragraph. And the "watch porn" thing in that same paragraph. And the Cinemax stuff...
...Angeles mentality also seeps into shows with no explicit California connection. "We California-ize everything, whether it's set in California or not," says TV and film writer Lew Hunter. That happens because the writer- producers almost invariably draw on their own experiences for their scripts -- and many of them share the L.A. tendency to let it all hang...