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...customers by watching over their shoulders and blocking blacklisted Web pages. Although the Public Security Bureau has deployed a young corps of Internet police to block offending websites, there's no way a few hundred officers can filter all the pages on the Web and maintain blocks that stymie surfers for long. But the Internet police keep trying. According to the Hong Kong Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, Beijing recently ordered all Internet caf?s to install software that immediately alerts one of the Public Security Bureau's Internet Caf? Information Security Control Centers when a surfer links...
...defense is a buzzing human gnat wearing the black-leather face mask of a professional wrestler. The team captain is a silky assassin who snakes passes with the style and misdirection of 007. His wingman is a shaved-headed, ball-dribbling maestro. Up front: two bleach blond surfer dudes, one of them with the most pinchable cheeks since the Gerber baby...
...road anthem, replete with shimmering guitars and a fist-waving chorus, and you get the sense the band is just out to have some fun and score some chicks. In contrast to the Strokes edgy “Hard To Explain,” Alex Greenwald’s surfer-dude wail sounds most comfortable singing, “I’ll try for one ray of sunlight to hold in my hand/ Maybe we can be happy again.” There is nothing too sophisticated in their arrangements and lyrics, which are reminiscent of Weezer in sound...
Praise abounds for Jimmy Surf in Internet chat rooms, on bulletin boards and in newsgroups as well as among members of the Harvard computing community. Nicholas D. Zeitlin ’02 is one such Harvard web surfer who appreciates the privacy that Jimmy Surf affords. “I think anyone who uses the Internet would like it—particularly if you spend a lot of time looking at porn,” Zeitlin says. “Of course, I don’t do that...
...truths. Jackson Pollock wanted his spattered canvases to represent universal psychic turmoils. Hickey loves them but says they are better regarded as freedom made visible. "They stand as permission for certain kinds of human behavior." He tells the story of a friend who painted a mock Pollock at his surfer bar to clue in visitors that this was a wiggly kind of place. "The 'Pollock,'" Hickey explains, "was no different from the sign at the front door that said, 'No shirt, no shoes, no problem...