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...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...
Hottest thing to do on a Saturday night: Watching the last Sex and the City episode on TiVo at the Spee...
...audience reaction ranged from deep offense to bemusement. Bill Cleaver, of Pittsboro, N.C., watched the performance with his wife Julia and their daughter Annie, 10. "I'm not a Boy Scout," he said, "but I know in public what is appropriate manners and what is vulgarity." Then again, TiVo, the digital-video-recorder maker, said the event was the most replayed ever among its users. In a TIME/CNN poll, 47% of respondents said the incident marked "a new low in bad taste"; yet 68% said the government should not fine CBS. Attempting to please a torn audience...
...Spike in TiVo replays when Janet Jackson's breast was exposed during the Super Bowl halftime show--the most re-played moment in TiVo history...
...Sources: TiVo; Nielsen Media Research; Boston Phoenix; Centers for Disease Control; New York Times