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...come as no surprise that Ima Robot’s debut has a distinct time-machine flavor—their bassist and drummer spent the last decade backing Beck as he danced slipshod through 40 years of popular music. Whether mugging as Prince’s band or channeling Os Mutantes and Nick Drake with dead-straight faces, the two helped breathe new life into seemingly incompatible tropes...
...Handspring Treo 300 was the first elegant pairing of Palm PDA and cell phone. Its eagerly awaited follow-up, the Treo 600, keeps up the family name with a built-in camera, a memory-card slot and a much brighter screen. Inside, amenities include an updated Palm OS, 32-MB of onboard memory and a processor four times as fast as the Treo 300's. Of course, you'll still have to contend with the cramped little keyboard. Expect the phone to sell for around $550 in mid-October; Sprint PCS will be the first to offer service. GSM versions...
...year-long civil war, his army massacred Maya Indian peasants suspected of aiding leftist guerrillas. The throb of military helicopters above highlands villages was often followed by deafening automatic rifle fire. Tens of thousands died, and a federal genocide case is now pending against Ríos Montt in a Guatemalan court. Asked at the time about his "scorched-earth" strategy, Ríos Montt quipped, "We don't have a policy of scorched earth - we have a policy of scorched communists." So it can be chilling to watch Ríos Montt, 77, a candidate...
Security experts are willing to cut Microsoft a lot of slack. In some ways, they say, Windows is a victim of its success. if rival operating systems like Linux or Mac OS had a 95% market share, the virus writers would be hard at work probing them for holes. Whether they would find as many is a different question altogether. Linux and, to a lesser extent, Mac OS are open source, which means they're subject to constant peer review by engineers and software writers all over the world. The energy that goes into finding fault with Windows exists...
...side effect of fragmenting vacations is that many of Europe's big cities are no longer summer deserts. Madrid and Barcelona, for instance, only a decade ago looked neutron-bombed in August. Everything shut, everyone off to la playa or el pueblo. Today, many Madrileños and Barceloneses are rediscovering their cities in summer - and loving them. Noise levels plummet, there are parking spaces to pick from rather than pull knives over, many restaurants and shops stay open to cater to locals and people avoid the worst part of travel - the traveling itself. In Paris, they've gone...