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...charm than a bullock-cart or a charcoal stove. And paper is for reading, packaging and folding into little planes. In my world, keyboard and trackball reign supreme. So the folks at Anoto AB have their work cut out for them if they're going to convince me that plain old writing is the best way to get on the Internet. This start-up Swedish company in the ancient university town of Lund is staking its future on pen and paper. Heck, even its name is derived from the Latin for "I write...
...Golfers who envision a host of "disabled" golfers - bad hip, bad back, asthma - queuing up for their own motorized crutches, not to mention other disabled athletes, see the Supreme Court's 7-2 ruling somewhat more broadly. (Jack Nicklaus is just plain annoyed: Learning that the justices had ruled that walking was not an integral part of the game, the living legend growled, "I think we ought to take them all out and play golf? I think they'd change their minds. I promise you, it's fundamental...
...cheap remote. It can handle up to eight components. Sony's RM-AV2100 Integrated Remote Commander--the fatal remote featured on The Sopranos--costs $179 and can handle a dozen. The Remote Commander is a serious remote--tweakable, customizable, programmable--bursting with preferences and macros and timers. Instead of plain old buttons, it has a glowing blue LCD touch screen. ("Hey, is that the remote or the TV?" quipped my wife. She's still jealous about VCR Girl...
Civilization, Joseph Conrad writes in Heart of Darkness, is “like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker—may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday...
...Survivor: The Australian Outback proved to be a huge letdown. TINA WESSON, sweet part-time nurse from Tennessee, took the million dollars, but sensitivity flowed from the other finalists too: COLBY DONALDSON (weepy mama's boy), RODGER BINGHAM (weepy schoolteacher), ELISABETH FILARSKI (weepy outback nymph) and KEITH FAMIE (just plain weepy--he broke down on live TV to propose marriage to his girlfriend). "I wanted it to be a kinder game," said Wesson, of the unfortunate lack of backstabbing. "I told [series creator] Mark [Burnett]...that I think a nice person could win this." The aggressive humility and kindness extended...