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Trash Your Hotel Room, a program that lets players assume the role of rock maniac on the road, is just one of the many ideas for interaction at broadband TV channel MTV Live, which will launch in Sweden and France in June. Want to be a graphic artist? Viewers can assemble virtual environments and e-mail their creations for consideration as background images. Is screenwriting more up your alley? MTV Live will let you select characters and write dialogue for short videos. Would-be maestros can mix and submit music to serenade MTV Live presenters. The new channel will also...
...latest personal technology triumph is the Slinger, which I bought at sitstay.com for $34.95. This overgrown slingshot fires tennis balls 150 ft. up a hill in my backyard--the perfect distance for my young brown hound Otto, who is an utter maniac for retrieving stuff. The Slinger is nearly perfect in every respect. It even has what I think of as a "wife feature": it lets my spouse scoop slimy, post-retrieved balls into a built-in wire rack without having to sully her ivory hands...
Fast-forward to C60’s performance. Loud, proud and dirty, their leader was a red dread-locked maniac with plenty of energy to spare. The crowd, myself included, seemed pathetically eager to welcome them, coming as they did on the heels of some intensely boring presentations. Fortunately, C60 didn’t disappoint, with blistering guitar attacks and wild gyrations injecting energy into a flagging atmosphere. I noticed however, that all their rebellious posturing seemed very much like a pose. Their “spontaneous” thrashing appearing self-conscious and rehearsed...
...story motors like a car driven by a chatty maniac who somehow stays on the road. The camera is just as agitated but with less reason; the pixilated imagery is always in danger of sabotaging the comedy. So, O.K., Ritchie mistakes flash for style. Perhaps that's the price you pay for storytelling exuberance. If he keeps making films as down and witty as Snatch, we may learn to forgive...
...envisions a time when countries will be eager to have their troops serve. His sales pitch is simple: U.N. operations are the best preview of the kinds of battles countries are likely to face in the future, conflicts that are less state vs. state and more state vs. maniac. "During the cold war, conflicts were neater," he explains. "You had client states [that] could be controlled. Here you are dealing with warlords who don't understand the outside world and don't care. Unless we are prepared to counter force with force, there is very little...