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...Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, the movie gods, as it were, smiled down upon the masses. Lines which had begun to form as much as a week earlier at theaters around the country finally surged forward. Internet connections crackled with activity, causing an overload on AOL which blocked out many customers. Moviephone (infamous for their feature-film presentation delay tactics) stayed impossible to contact until late into the evening. After the weeks of speculation, of endlessly replaying movie trailers, of hunting out "insider" Internet sites and comparing notes, rabid fans of the most successful movie series ever took that final...
...World War II science czar, organized the Manhattan Project and helped create the postwar military-industrial-university complex. But the onetime professor at M.I.T.--where he built a massive, gear-driven analog computer called the differential analyzer--was also a prophet. In 1945, dismayed by the wartime info overload, he proposed a desktop machine, the "memex," that would display text and pictures (from a microfilm library) at the press of a button. Presciently, Bush envisioned users of his proto-PC following trails of knowledge along storable hypertext "links," much like today's Web surfers...
...Tina Yalen, an eighth-grade civics teacher, gave her opinion of the Virginia test: "Some of it looked like Trivial Pursuit to me." More worrisome is how a 10-year-old will react if his or her result is branded with a scarlet F. Says Harvard's Reville: "An overload of negative feedback runs the risk that students are going to shut down and not make an effort in the future...
...only comic relief from this overload of testosterone comes in the form of Van Der Beek's little brother, whose sissy religious inclinations threaten the very masculinity of their overbearing father. He literally has a cross to bear, bows with regal reverence to the barbecue grill and even at one point starts a cult with other neighborhood kids. How sweet...
...server was fine--it could handle the load--but rather than overload it, we decided to move the page," Feigenbaum added...