Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years that I've penned the Crimson's Tech Talk column, I've definitely jumped on many bandwagons. I hope I've been right more often than wrong. Sure, I goofed in thinking big screen TV-computers, push media and Java would be watersheds in technology, and I'm still looking for a buyer for my beloved eMate now that Apple's dumped the whole Newton line...
...find what they want even in the face of a watchful, nervous government. One group of university students in Tibet fired up a browser in front of a reporter recently and pointed it at the most controversial site they could imagine: Bill Clinton's own www.whitehouse.gov The opening screen, "Good evening from the White House," came up with no problem...
...introduce the show and warm up the audience, a reel of highlights was played before the panel discussion. The audience joined in with the on-screen figures and sang along with "Rubber Ducky," "I Love Trash," remaining silent during the segment concerning Mr. Hooper's death...
...White House has already invoked the separate notion of Executive privilege in an attempt to screen aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal from Starr. Extending a similar privilege to the Secret Service would be novel, says Burt Neuborne, former legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, but not unreasonable. "It has all the hallmarks of other privileges, such as the marital and clergy privileges. Without it, you run the risk of injuring what is a tremendously important relationship." Not everybody is convinced. "The presidency comes with a lot of perks, but this one is just over the top," says...
Nearly 3 million people have visited Gaskins' home page--as many as 30,000 a day. It takes him an hour just to wade through the 150 e-mail messages he gets each day from kids hoping for contact with the screen idol. (Note to the Leo-struck: Gaskins has never communicated with the star or his handlers.) I would find all this very draining, but Gaskins does it for free. Is he a sucker? "I had someone appraise my site," he says. "The domain name itself is worth more than $75,000." Hmmm, maybe...