Word: sighteness
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...Darwinism is back, social and otherwise, and that is the solid skeleton of this show. But the sight of Jerri and Alicia, the two women scorned, sitting on that growing jury was a pungent reminder that the entertainment value of "Survivor" does not lie with the ability of a handful of hungry people to get along while they starve. Jerri is missed. (And I'm not alone - 6 percent of respondents to a USA poll picked Jerri to go again, suggesting that people much prefer to vote her off than actually see her go.) With Colby seemingly in charge...
...foregoes placing the butt against his shoulder and thus precludes the use of the sight, not to mention any hope whatsoever of a steady shot. The stance he takes is more reminiscent of the video game Doom than anything in reality...
...There Emerson hits precisely upon an essential imbecility of our own time. Rabid partisanship, an overboil of conviction, damages sight, impairs understanding, and may even ruin the joy of life. You see the world with one eye, peering straight ahead through one stupid, dogmatic lens, and walk through the day, as if it were a tunnel, in a state of smug, inflamed, combative rage...
...possible that this latest news will push me over the edge. I know that e-mail has taken a lot of the Postal Service's business away, and I think that's rotten. If you ask me, that blinking e-mail icon is pretty cold comfort compared to the sight of an envelope stuffed fat with news and photographs. But that's progress, I guess. And I don't think anyone?s going to abandon e-mail anytime soon...
...even now that the recording companies have muzzled Napster, their real solution is nowhere in sight. Computer nerds, bless their souls, seem to have an unyielding desire to boast their virtual manhood. Encryption codes will be broken; system will be beaten. Gnutella, for example, is a small, mysterious little file sharing program that has no central servers to blame and will probably allow piracy to thrive as long as the Internet exists. No one can stop the wave...