Word: statically
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...Jeopardy” contest. Instantly she set about making her three-minute videotape. She set up the camera by the Charles and, while getting strange stares from passersby—showed off her question asking talents. “I had someone hook me up to a static electricity machine to make the clue come to life. It made my hair stand on end,” she explains...
Dusk was falling last Tuesday when news of the attack on America first reached this war-ruined city, Kabul. In the dusty twilight, Afghans held radios to their ears, listening to static-filled accounts on the Voice of America and the BBC Pashto- and Persian-language services. Because the country's Taliban rulers forbid television, Afghans could see no pictures of the destruction that had people everywhere else glued to their sets. The immensity of the World Trade Center had to be described. When Afghans asked me about the Twin Towers, I compared them to Afghanistan's giant Bamiyan Buddha...
...morning: I wake up to the quiet hum of static over the airwaves. Through the fire door, my neighbor leaves his radio tuned to the news all day and all night. It echoes through the walls. I get up and put on a shirt with red, white, and blue piping on the sleeves. I have always been fond of this garment, but today I wear the colors as an intentional statement...
...Apparently a small bunch of Palm users have had rather nasty shocks to their system. Static electricity, they say, has somehow made its way from their Palm cradles to their PCs during the HotSync process, which is where the two exchange and back up information. Result: fried motherboard. This appears to have happened enough times for San Francisco attorneys to file a class-action lawsuit last week. The law firm has garnered testimony from at least 40 new complainants since the suit started to be publicized. Palm maintains it is not aware of any such problem...
...thought. But what if I stuck the Palm in its cradle and both Palm and PC got fritzed? I know that static electricity can be a potential death blow for computers; that's why you're supposed to ground yourself by touching the metal casing before installing a new graphics card, sound card or internal drive. I also know it would have to be a huge long-shot for an electric current to somehow pass from your body to the Palm's casing, down the cradle cable and into the computer. It's not like this will affect Palm...