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...early history of Seinfeld has become a well-told story of genius vs. the philistines. NBC nearly killed the series in 1989 after test audiences hated the pilot. Now the new DVD of the show's first three seasons teaches us that the philistines were ... right. Sort of. On second look, the pilot, while funny enough, is weak compared with the observational gem the show became. As Jerry Seinfeld gamely admits on a commentary track with cocreator Larry David, "We didn't know what we were doing...
...Suez Canal, he writes in an e-mail, “the threat of RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] attacks or sniper fire is all too imminent... The canal is at points so narrow that standing on one of the banks, Johnny Damon could toss a baseball right through the Pilot house and out the other side. As well guarded as the canal is, it is still one of the most hair-raising events of the deployment because of the ever-looming possibilities...
...officer was sent to Lavietes Pavilion to take a report of a forced entry. Four laptop computers, a video camera, two athletic bags, one Palm Pilot and a set of computer speakers were reported stolen. The items have a total value...
...products," says Gruhl, WebFountain's chief architect. If a company wants to know, for example, what potential customers are saying online about its new gizmo, or even what people are saying in a specific language about the company's product, WebFountain can help give the answer. In one pilot program, WebFountain found that the buzz on college campuses preceded music sales of new CDs by two weeks (good to know if you're a record label). London-based Semagix licenses WebFountain to help its large banking customers track suspicious money flows. "Instead of looking at 5,000 documents...
...company that first put the Palm Pilot in your pocket is launching two new handhelds, the Tungsten T5 and the Treo 650 PDA phone. The 650 is not a radical redesign of the immensely popular Treo 600--appearance-wise, it's actually hard to tell the older model from the new one--but it is an all around improvement. The LCD screen looks better in sunlight, and the internal memory holds data even after the battery has drained. With certain service providers, the new Treo will be able to access a fast data network known as EDGE, giving it better...