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...life, we ask TiVo or the Web or the Cheesecake Factory to indulge our slightest whims. Asking this is not selfish; in fact, it is a duty. ("Have it your way!"--was that an invitation or a command?) But under a political system devised before the dawn of the fixin's bar, we are suddenly asked to settle for those options that can please half the voters or, at least, five out of nine Supreme Court Justices. That rankles our American souls. We should be satisfied! We should be catered to! We specifically asked for the vinaigrette on the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age of iPod Politics | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

...life, we ask TiVo or the Web or the Cheesecake Factory to indulge our slightest whims. Asking this is not selfish; in fact, it is a duty. ("Have it your way!" - was that an invitation or a command?) But under a political system devised before the dawn of the fixin's bar, we are suddenly asked to settle for those options that can please half the voters or, at least, five out of nine Supreme Court Justices. That rankles our American souls. We should be satisfied! We should be catered to! We specifically asked for the vinaigrette on the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age of iPod Politics | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

...then there's year-round programming. Today at City Center in Manhattan, Fox announced not one schedule, but three: One that starts in June, one that starts in November, and another for later in the winter. You need a TiVo to keep all this straight. A TiVo! A computer for your television! Has everyone forgotten that television is the opposite of a computer - a machine you turn on so you can stop thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fox Makes Things So Complicated; UPN Enjoys Being a Girl | 5/21/2004 | See Source »

...infectious about the idea, and it's a virus we caught from our computers. We spend all day working in a ghost world of digital data, computerized information that's manipulable, rewritable, copyable, rebootable and erasable. Then we go home to a computer full of MP3s and a TiVo full of reruns. Eternal Sunshine plays on the creeping suspicion that our memories might work the same way--that deep down we're not unique immortal souls but swirls of fungible data points on a rewritable hard drive. If all we know of reality, of ourselves, is information, and information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amnesia the Beautiful | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

Hottest thing to do on a Saturday night: Watching the last Sex and the City episode on TiVo at the Spee...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Hottest Freshmen | 3/11/2004 | See Source »

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