Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems so obvious now that it's amazing no one thought of it sooner: a computer that keeps track of thousands of phone numbers, addresses and calendar appointments, a to-do list and memos, yet is small enough to fit in your shirt pocket. When Palm Computing first introduced its tiny Pilot two years ago, the gizmo did all that and more--and hit the jackpot. Sales zoomed to a million, and everyone from Al Gore to Robin Williams was packing one. At $299, the device was cheap (for a computer), hip and elegant. But the real secret...
...block of wood to fit his shirt pocket. Then he carried it around for months, pretending it was a computer. Was he free for lunch on Wednesday? Hawkins would haul out the block and tap on it as if he were checking his schedule. If he needed a phone number, he would pretend to look it up on the wood. Occasionally he would try out different design faces with various button configurations, using paper printouts glued to the block...
Some of the Senators on the Judiciary Committee may not have heard of the Gates Library Foundation, which helps wire libraries to the Internet. So they were surprised when phone calls started coming in to their offices with the good news from one of Bill Gates' charitable trusts. The callers just wanted the Senators to know that the foundation had donated generously to libraries in their states--$1.67 million, all told...
...personal opinion is that the photos do cross the line. But do you want my opinion or the store's?" asks the clerk who picked up the phone at an independent Manhattan bookstore specializing in art and photo books. She is responding to my queries about David Hamilton, the photographer whose recent collection of images of nude young girls, The Age of Innocence, prompted an Alabama grand jury to indict Barnes & Noble on charges of selling child pornography. This action came in response to protests by Christian activists, fanned nationwide by the likes of Randall Terry, the antiabortion activist...
...BUCK NEVER STOPS Great economic news, Bill! The latest Moni-market indicators suggest a solid rise in g.d.p. (or gross domestic products). At a Manhattan gourmet shop, snackers can nibble a $20 Monica cookie. In New York a cable ad promotes a phone line to the Oval Orifice. In Germany a decorating company boasts that its "wall-to-wall carpets are knee-friendly and bugging-proof...