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...network as blue-state-oriented as HBO (each of its current sitcoms, for instance, is about show business), Big Love is a surprising detour to the reddest of the red states. In the drama, which debuts in summer 2006, characters declare their faith as easily as those on Deadwood swear. Co-creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, neither of whom is Mormon, say they were interested in the conflict within Bill, who came from a polygamist compound but now lives in the mainstream suburbs of Salt Lake City. The fundamentalists, says Olsen, see the LDS Church "as sellouts...
...everything from sports scores to election results to the expected capture of al-Qaeda bigwig Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. Some of the best of those online markets: the Hollywood Stock Exchange, the Iowa Electronic Markets, Yahoo's Tech Buzz Game and PublicGyan. InTrade, run by the Trade Exchange Network, an Irish firm, cleared 50,000 contracts last month (including 10% odds that al-Zarqawi will be caught in 2005). "There's a tremendous demand for prediction," says Justin Wolfers, a markets expert at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. "I can bet on the World Series or the next...
DERY: ... but I feel that in discussions like this, there's a phenomenon where technopundits wear Global Business Network blinkers. The democratization of available avenues of possibility is always phrased in market-friendly terms. It's about purchasing power--the cornucopia of options available to those who can stuff their shopping carts and proceed to checkout. How many options were available to those who were marooned in New Orleans? The ragtag who are rotting in what used to be quaintly called the real world, somewhere off-line, are left behind...
While this is obviously a shame for both squads involved, the embarrassment felt by the YES network has to top it. All year, YES pointed to the fact that it was doing things differently. It wanted the premier Ivy contests. It added the flexible final-week game to ensure that it could broadcast a matchup that possessed some sort of significance...
...reasonably safe to say that the vast majority of Harvard undergraduates haven’t noticed a somewhat subtle change in their ability to access the Internet that was put in place before the school year began: just about every computer on the wireless and residential networks on campus is now behind a firewall.This particular firewall is, more or less, innocuous. It blocks incoming traffic, so it only will stop you from things like trying to run a web server out of your dorm room. The reason for its implementation is in fact to protect us, from malicious viruses that...