Word: lasering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some cases dimes and nickels taped to index cards. But those little payments were coming in piles. eBay took in $1,000 the first month, more than it cost to run. Omidyar really knew he was onto something when he put up a listing for a broken $30 laser pointer that he was about to throw out. He fully disclosed that it didn't work--even with new batteries--and started it at $1. Inexplicably, a bidding war ensued, and someone ended up taking it off his hands for $14. Meanwhile, the site's revenues kept doubling: they were...
...provide a live example of the earlier projects documented by the show, Attie was commissioned to create a site-specific installation for the ICA, which will use laser and slide projection to illuminate the building's former use as a prison for the Boston Police Department. To disrupt our own quotidian urban experience, An Unusually Bad Lot will be on public display evenings during selected dates between Dec. 30 and Jan. 12. Though the very nature of Attie's work makes it ephemeral, the ICA has ensured in this excellent presentation that these projections of lives won't simply vanish...
...Eagle scout. I got to do coin collecting and figure skating. I took a year off before college. I worked at a hardware store. I worked at a surgical laser factory. My job was like Zack the Lego maniac, I was the guy who puts the Legos into...
...Wednesday, police arrested about 500 demonstrators, dragging many of them feet-first into buses and speeding them off to detention centers, where some of them idly communicated among themselves by flashing in Morse code with their laser pens. Schell and his police chief, Norm Stamper, seemed taken by surprise by the calamity caused by the demonstration. If so, they were the only ones. Protest leaders had long promised as much, and websites have been bubbling for months about the gathering. Hundreds of would-be demonstrators attended camps in civil disobedience this summer in preparation. In a building not far from...
...Shemmer's eventual goal is to found his own company as well. But he keeps a laser-like focus on planning. "Am I envious?" he says. "Of course I'm envious--you can't help but be when you see kids making billions." Nevertheless, most Internet startups fail, especially when founders lack business sense. "I've learned so much in this year and a half," Shemmer says. "I'm maximizing, A, my probability of getting to one of those startups, and B, being of value to those startups...