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Stomp's conception is this: The world around us is filled with rhythm--rhythm that can be drawn out of anything; household objects, industrial junk, the lowbrow things you find in your pockets, the natural world itself. That means that the world is filled with music. "You can make music out of absolutely anything, whether it's...tapping on a Coke can or picking up pebbles on the beach," says the show's co-creator Steve McNicholas. "It's what you want to do with...
...same time, Stomp is very definitely creating a "ritual" of sorts for the very culture it came out of. As McNicholas says, if people insist on deriving any message from Stomp, it should be "Do it yourself." (Using junk, household and industrial objects, by its very nature, challenges the issue of waste and challenges the notion of culture as being highbrow or detached," he says. "I.e., you don't have to buy a cello or a drum kit to make music...
...economics who subsequently worked as a reporter for Forbes magazine and followed high-tech stocks as a securities analyst on Wall Street, Dyson possesses an impressive amount of practical experience with which to substantiate her conceptions. One of the most innovative suggestions she makes concerns the mass mailings of junk e-mail sent through the Net. Her plan to curb this "spamming" involves the use of "sender-pays" e-mail, wherein the recipient would be able to charge the sender before accepting the mail (or to forgive the fee, so that access is not restricted to the wealthy alone). Here...
Nothing like a few lawsuits to help drum up business. As Internet service providers mobilize to keep bulk E-mailers at bay, the junk E-mail (called spam) has only become more pervasive. It represents, for instance, up to 20% of the 9 million E-mail messages processed by America Online each...
...past year the service has engaged in a running--and losing--battle with spammers. In the past three weeks, AOL has filed two lawsuits, most recently against Prime Data in Kentucky, for deluging AOL members with ads for online entrepreneurs. But techies are starting to accept that junk E-mail may be here to stay. The problem: new technology makes it impossible to distinguish between mail you want and spam you don't. Courts may offer temporary relief, but serious spammers say the new suits don't have them worried. "We've been through 12 lawsuits since last year," says...