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...short for Web log. It was coined in 1997 to describe a website where you could post daily scribblings, journal-style, about whatever you like--mostly critiquing and linking to other articles online that may have sparked your thinking. Unlike a big media outlet, bloggers focus their efforts on narrow topics, often rising to become de facto watchdogs and self-proclaimed experts. Blogs can be about anything: politics, sex, baseball, haiku, car repair. There are blogs about blogs...
...Rumor has it that Berman wrote “Tanglewood” in a fit of inspiration after a protracted stay in rehab and a suicide attempt. The recurrence of heartache and depression as song themes suggests that there may be some truth to the gossip. But such a narrow focus risks missing the album’s genuinely hilarious moments, like Berman’s declaration: “Haven’t you heard the news? / Adam and Eve were Jews!” In “How Can I Love You? (If You Won?...
...place of a cave, Energetech's four-story-high floating power plant has an open-based, dome-roofed chamber with a narrow opening at the top. As the waves rise and fall inside the chamber, compressed air is forced in and out of the opening, past a turbine that drives a generator. The device, which has been dubbed an "oscillating water column," has been the basis of several plans for generating useful energy. But Denniss, a former lecturer in mathematics and oceanography, curved one wall of the chamber to amplify the wave, much as a car headlight's concave reflecting...
...those of us who have spent countless hours hunched over a computer in total darkness, walking through narrow underground halls accompanied only by an image of a machine gun in the bottom right corner of the screen, the announcement that the “Doom” videogame series had been converted into a movie was news indeed. For those who are a little rusty on their computer game history (or are not complete dorks), “Doom” popularized the “first-person shooter” style, in which you see through the eyes...
...example, Giovanditto says that soon committee members will listen to presentations from four architectural firms contending to design the new Charlesview apartments. The development committee will narrow the field of firms to two—but the final decision will be left to the board...