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...something else going on. Typically, after a few seconds of chaotic clapping, an audience will slip into synchronized applause, like two people adjusting their strides until they walk in step. But just as walkers will reassert their natural gait, a clap-happy audience will fall in and out of synch repeatedly. According to a study of ovations in Romania and Hungary, this back-and-forthing is due to conflicting needs: the wish to make the most possible noise (random clapping) vs. the urge to clap in unison. People switch from one to the other by consciously adjusting the speed...
...MEMORABLE MOMENT] Indiana Jones chases after a lost Super Bowl trophy, while LaBelle, obscured by a giant hat, gamely tries to lip-synch...
Advertisers hope such TV-PC shackups will ultimately allow them to direct players to online deals or to synch TV commercials with click-to-buy options. With a traditional commercial, says Aram Sinnreich, an analyst with Internet research firm Jupiter Communications, "the most the advertiser could hope for is to eventually send the user to the store." But webRIOT's online surfer-viewers are virtually at the store today, and the future implications make advertisers salivate. webRIOT is already selling on-air and online ads as a package...
...DRAG Some DVD players may have trouble keeping audio and video in synch. Most manufacturers will fix the problem for free. Ask about it at the store when...
...mega-success. Check out www.bunim-murray.com for more info on how you can be a superstar... (I'm assuming that you have to be white, be from either Kentucky or Idaho, go to church, can't swear, can't be fat, have to be able to lip synch...