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...companies intentionally blur the line between work and play, office and home. Bring your dog to work, decorate your workspace with Gundam robots and Darth Maul action figures, drink all the Mountain Dew you can stomach. Where would a young techie rather be, at home struggling with a high-ping 56k modem or at the office, surfing on a T-1 line...
...Resume. Contest. Both are words that you'd expect to see on a poster, maybe even on the same poster, as in "To enter the Third Annual Edible Pre-Frosh Contest, send your resume to University Hall." Or "Prepare to witness a blood-chilling contest as the Women's Ping-Pong Team and their Princeton rivals resume their bloody battle of balls." But a resume contest...
...wanted a student center, not a hustling joint for brooding Fats Domino Juniors. Think ping-pong, think video games, think...
Often only a little skepticism, a little suspicion proves enough, but all too frequently blissful innocence rules alone. What Internet user can avoid confronting the harsh possibilities implicit in programs like Finger and Ping? Who uses e-mail without the electronic equivalent of drawbridges, a portcullis, some halberdiers? Lately, the answer seems well-nigh everyone. Too many Harvard students trust, too few know Melville's The Confidence Man, the twisted tale of a masquerader already physically close to his victims, poised to ping...
...Often only a little skepticism, a little suspicion proves enough, but all too frequently blissful innocence rules alone. What Internet user can avoid confronting the harsh possibilities implicit in programs like Finger and Ping? Who uses e-mail without the electronic equivalent of drawbridges, a portcullis, some halberdiers? Lately, the answer seems well-nigh everyone. Too many Harvard students trust, too few know Melville's The Confidence Man, the twisted tale of a masquerader already physically close to his victims, poised to ping...