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...position to achieve the hopes we originally had for it. We aren't close to the Donna Reed 1950s Space Age ideal. In fact, Donna Reed largely doesn't exist anymore. As fewer women choose to be housewives, the need to create Rosie the Robot has ironically fallen by the wayside. Flying cars aren't anywhere near the horizon. We're just getting started with alternative automobile fuel sources like ethanol, electricity and solar power. Food capsules? Forget it. We're still working on genetically enhancing our food, not shrinking it into little pills...
...thought the original iMac looked cool when it was introduced last fall, wait until you see version 2. Nothing I've had in my office during the past few years--from the self-feeding cat orb to the lawnmower-shaped robot--has elicited so many oohs and ahs as the iMac DV Special Edition ($1,499) that now sits on my desk top. Perhaps it's the classy "graphite" color or the clear plastic casing that lets you ogle its innards. Or maybe it's that the iMac looks like the slightly upturned nose cone of a space shuttle. With...
...Plot is definitely not the screenwriter's first priority. But sadly, neither is comedy. Some of the scenes are completely nonsensical, like the long musical montage consisting of students doing "the Robot" in the school cafeteria. There really is no explanation for the number of times this bad dance appears throughout the movie, save an unhealthy fixation on the writers' part. Equally unfunny is Will Ferrell in the role of a hippie Jesus that periodically enters Mary Katherine's dreams. The "fashion-time" break is equally painful. One gets the impression that the writers, lacking enough material to pack...
...news story, it lacked for little. A pipe bomb had gone off; authorities needed to send a robot in to check Ashbrook?s body for booby traps. Shiny, happy, God-fearing kids mowed down when God was supposed to be caring for them. A throwback to Cassie Bernall at Columbine, and the shredded prayer circle in Paducah, Ky., last year. CNN followed step by step the rampage, flight and capture of Buford Furrow at the L.A. Jewish Community Center in August. Just one had died. Columbine? We?ve only just now stopped hearing about Columbine. Yet the shooting barely...
...found that it was difficult to move Cye precisely using my laptop's mouse, and thus it was slow going trying to input a working route. Nonetheless, after about 20 minutes, a rudimentary thoroughfare--which I dubbed the Steinway--was laid out. The robot rolled out my door, hung a left and cruised down the hall about 50 ft. to Stein's office, where it made another left and entered. A few seconds later a short, high-pitched scream (not robotic) indicated that Cye had found its mark. Upon inspection, I saw Stein standing on his sofa. "I fear...