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Here's how democracy works in the digital age. Just before Apple unveiled the iPod last October, the Internet rumor mill was rife with speculation that the device would be some kind of personal organizer--Steve Jobs' answer to the Palm Pilot. The iPod turned out to be a palm-size music player with a five-gigabyte hard drive (a 10-GB version was released two weeks ago). But now, six months later, that original speculation doesn't seem too wrong. That's because Apple's hard-core users quickly figured out how to hack the device and write...
...other story in Murder by Numbers is a premeditated crime committed by two intellectual teenagers. Their ploy is rife with philosophical overtones relevant to the impersonality of today’s society. Ryan Gosling plays Richard Haywood, one of the “cool” kids in high school who lives on daddy’s credit card and can’t help attracting copious numbers of women. His partner in crime is his physics tutor Justin Pendleton (Michael Pitt II). Justin is a classic quiet kid, skilled on a computer but is not especially outgoing or friendly...
...Dave Matthews Band has become a musical institution, a college staple and an idol for guitar strummers everywhere. The radio is rife with imitators, with Five For Fighting being only the most obvious and stomach-churningly plaintive example...
...refreshing political overtone is the disdainful stance the film takes on smoking. With recent flicks rife with “cool” smokers, both good and bad, Murder by Numbers’ Richard is incomplete without the dirty butt hanging from his sinister mouth. Each time he appears, you want to slap him and make him realize that his smoking habit (not to mention his killing habit) is not as cool as he seems to think...
Somerville is rife with Capuanos. On the way out of the high school Cappy points out Capt. Andrew Capuano Street, a roadway that bears the name of his grandfather, who served in both the Army and the Navy. Cappy says it was one of the first streets in Somerville to be named in someone’s honor. We soon drive by the house in which his father grew up. According to Cappy, all but two of the extended Capuano clan still live in the Commonwealth...