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...Called the Party-shot, Sony's $150 accessory is a camera dock - not much bigger than a palm-sized paperweight - that enables users to enjoy themselves at gatherings without worrying about who is documenting the event. Attach a compatible camera (sorry, Sony only), and the Party-shot will take over, panning and tilting, zooming in and out, and snapping shots of any people who pause in front of it long enough to be detected. (See the top 10 everything...
...plaything of the effete, limp-wristed parlor liberals who have too much money and too little sense. Hopefully, when reality hits, it will go the way of POG caps, Beanie Babies, and Pokémon. Sure, it’s cute. It is, after all, just a very expensive paperweight...
...Indian Ocean; then Louis follows Julie to Marseille, and they finish in the snow of Switzerland. The movie?s emotional trajectory is also from hot to cold, earth tones to glacial whites. For a man obsessed, Belmondo plays it low-voltage; Deneuve is only the most gorgeous paperweight. The film has no heat, only humidity, and that in the early going. By the end, Truffaut has packed his movie in Alpine...
...thanks to my refusal to cave in to cell phone-mania, but I also have an aging computer to boot! I bought my Dell four years ago, so it’s not that old, right? It gets the job done, yet some days it seems like a giant paperweight taking up valuable desk space. It only has 64 MB of RAM, which I’m told is an embarrassing figure. True, when I turn it on in the morning, it makes sickly grinding noises that used to rouse my sleeping roommate. True, when launching Internet Explorer, I like...
...Costner trys to act devastated. He becomes a loose cannon on the job and is quickly asked to take time off by his friends and medical colleagues. He appears delusional to them, as he becomes deeply affected by frequent encounters with dragonflies—be it with a dragonfly paperweight with a life of its own or the mail delivery of a decorative dragonfly mobile. These incidents seem strange enough, until we learn that his wife had a dragonfly-shaped birthmark on her shoulder and an unusual interest for dragonflies. But who has a thing for dragonflies...