Word: overload
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...Kincaid, an analyst at American Airlines, was tired of hearing about the wedding plans of the woman in the next cubicle. "You would have thought it was the Von Trapp wedding from The Sound of Music," he recalls. But it rankled for reasons other than gossip overload. Kincaid was a closeted gay man, living under a "self-imposed silence. My assumption was, 'Don't ask, don't tell.'" Although he was openly gay in the rest of his life, he was afraid to let anyone in hisoffice know. "I had worked a long time to get to this dream...
Ghostface’s ear for detail, his absolute sensory overload, and his unflagging energy can best be compared to Martin Scorcese’s films, big works with all the momentum of a freight train and none of the weight...
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DIED. NAM JUNE PAIK, 74, impish Korean-born avant-gardist deemed the inventor of video art who in the 1960s won acclaim with works that simultaneously celebrated and spoofed the fledgling notion of media overload; of natural causes; in Miami. Inspired by iconoclast composer John Cage, he created such renowned installations as Video Fish, an array of 52 live monitors, each obscured by fish-filled aquariums...
...Google's Desktop Search or Apple's Spotlight to find all the stuff you have misplaced. But a simpler, more effective strategy is to file things so you don't lose them in the first place. A new breed of organizing software programs can help you cope with information overload, acting as digital baskets for managing files, notes, lists and other random bits of data. Ready for some fall cleaning? Here are the top tools. --By Jeremy Caplan...