Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hate-group-monitoring center. Your job is to trawl the Web, surf literally thousands of "anarchy" links and make a note of the really nasty ones. One day you stumble across a high school student's website that contains a lot of hateful teen posturing and some plug-ins for a best-selling violent computer game. Do you bookmark...
...start trafficking in fantasies of bias crimes. There are video games out there that make Doom look like an art-house flick. For example, white supremacists can stage virtual lynchings with a game called Hang Leroy, clandestinely available on Klan sites. Racist versions of Doom also exist, with a plug-in that changes the color of the victims. "Hate is available in many flavors on the Internet," says Raymond Franklin, a Maryland police executive and publisher of the Hate Directory. He says that neo-Nazis could take advantage of what was until recently a largely young white male audience online...
...this virtual-reality game, the game-pod looks like an animal kidney, and the plug (ugh) goes into a hole in your back. No big deal, says the game's creator (Jennifer Jason Leigh): "They do it in malls; it's like having your ears pierced." She might be a stand-in for the writer-director, who in Scanners, Videodrome, Crash and The Fly has dealt creepily and eloquently with the disintegration of mind and body. eXistenZ, where Leigh and Jude Law get into a virtual reality game and can't get out, is more modest than its current twin...
Ignoring HARMONY's shameless plug in the introduction, there never was a more serene and enjoyable evening to be had. The small group of thirteen players had no problem projecting their rich tones, with very little help from the resonant acoustics of Mem Church. No particular player stands outfrom the rest; the string ensemble performs with such wonderful cohesiveness that every member is an integral (yet unobtrusive) part of the whole...
...WANT MY MTV Well, you can have it. The World Wildlife Fund has teamed up with MTV to provide 60-sec. videos aimed at inspiring viewers to environmental heroism. Also worth a look are the video Earth Reports, viewable with the Vivo or VDO plug-ins. Go to www.panda.org and click on "Video Library...