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...decade and a half has been a hotbed of electronic music, and the group reflects the richness and diversity of San Francisco's electronic music scene. The CD also suggests San Francisco's close ties to the computer industry in the Silicon Valley: the first track is a CD-ROM file featuring hallucinogenic digital imagery...
...pages supporting HotJava can be designed to include full-motion video at CD-ROM quality. This means that instead of being limited to still photos, HotJava Web pages may include full-blown animations featuring digitized sound and video...
Among the citizens of cyberspace met by Kindel and his crew were "Lusty 212," a private eye turned matchmaker who brings together hundreds of lonely people for cybercompanionship; artist and musician Laurie Anderson, who is using the Internet to send out samples from her latest CD-ROM; and "The Visible Man," a dead criminal who has been sliced ("by what looked like a giant salami-slicing machine," recalls Kindel) into 1,800 pieces, all of them digitally photographed and stored for online inspection by medical students all over the world...
...scissors and saying, "snip, snip, snip!" Although "Cyborgasm," fancied itself revolutionary by "exploring new media for erotica," it was merely a novelty and more or less fell flat; the sex noises on it are barely more interesting than the ones heard through the average fire door. As CD-ROM drives for personal computers have become more affordable, CD-ROMs featuring erotic pictures and film clips have become more available. A game called "Virtual Valerie" has become wildly popular. In it, the player attempts to fill Valerie's voracious sexual appetite. You'd be surprised by what your mouse...
...technical caveat to be aware of: unless you have a double-speed CD-ROM player, stay away from this game. While the manual states that the game works with single-speed CD-ROM players, the cinematic sequences are completely ruined by the short pauses every few seconds as data is loaded from the CD-ROM...