Word: simpler
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...recall with nostalgia your computer’s first days out of the box: a simpler time, when she hurtled through her self-test; when the nifty “Available Disk Space” piechart showed seven gigabytes of untrammeled roominess; when windows and menus sprang from her toolbars like a great splash in a clear lake; when your desktop sat empty and content, like a mid-day showing of Serendipity. What is it, then, that drives us to engage in unprotected interface with these ill-intentioned download sites? Certainly this irresponsible behavior is not a means to some...
...decided to change the game a little and debut a set of Beirut All-Star Trading Cards. Gone are the batting averages and runs batted in, the silly pictures of overweight men in tight tight pants, and the Barbie doll pink bubble gum. Beirut is a much simpler game. Each game requires two stoic players battling for no real reason except the need to get tipsy, a tiny white ball, a long crusty table and the will...
...operating system "knows" you probably want to store photos. The My Pictures folder is automatically called up. Retrieve a photo from it, and at the click of a button, make it e-mail ready; this is what we do with photos on computers, after all. Even error messages are simpler...
...Then came Friends, an even more phenomenal success. Set in Pusan, the film, released in March, tapped a deep vein of nostalgia in South Korea, where a shaky economy and the go-go pace of life in the Internet fast lane have left many pining for simpler times. Koreans now routinely repeat the movie's best lines, using the rough accents of Pusan gangsters. Comic-strip versions circulate on the Internet, and tourists now make pilgrimages to Pusan. The movie has been particularly popular with men in their late 30s and 40s, who went to school when the Prussian-style...
Life was a little simpler for me before I started thinking that I could be Dylan Klebold's mother. Klebold, the Littleton, Colo., teen who along with his buddy Eric Harris murdered 13 people in a rampage at Columbine High School in 1999, has etched his surname into the national consciousness as a symbol of everything that could go wrong in a family. Like many parents, I had always assumed--perhaps hoped--that once this family's story was known, it would be clear that the parents were checked out, maybe even uncaring, and so on some level responsible...