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PICASA.COM Need to get a handle on all the digital snapshots cluttering up your hard drive? Download this handy photo-management tool by Picasa, a subsidiary of Google. It finds all your pics, lets you embellish them with any of 12 special effects and automatically resizes images into easy-to-e-mail file sizes. A nifty instant-messaging feature lets you share shots in real time...
...that plays a likewise intimate role in our daily lives. But compelling non-fiction demands more than cold facts, and unfortunately, “The Google Story” is a repetitive panegyric that lacks the narrative drive necessary to pull readers onto the next page.Nevertheless, as a reference tool, the book is indispensable, and, regardless of style, provides truckloads of trivia, such as the genesis of the word “google.” To arrive at that household name, Brin and Page unintentionally misspelled the math term “googol,” proving that even...
...yard sign,” Monahan said. “The good news is that students are political in both traditional and innovative ways. The bad news is that campaigns may not be realizing this.” Panelists singled out the Internet as a particularly important new political tool. The survey also identified the 18-24 demographic as particularly religious, with more than one-third of respondents identifying as born-again Christians. “Religious affiliation is almost the best predictor of partisanship,” said Bill McInturff, who was a pollster for the 2000 presidential campaign...
...this pig-tailed, rosy-cheeked girl would much rather get rich than die tryin’.A few months ago, I faced the hardest of all T-shirt statement tasks—what do you wear to a concert, as you straddle the line between looking like a tool with the band’s tee on and looking like a nerd in bland everyday clothing. Attending an Oasis/Jet concert, I thought I would make the ultimate ironic move with my “Gangsta” top. Smiling to myself on how clever I was as I walked through...
...depression, but is a hero to many SSRI skeptics for his work in exposing the drugs' capacity to produce suicidal thoughts and, in what he estimates to be 1 in 500 of all SSRI users, drive people to kill themselves. The serotonin-imbalance theory has been a marketing tool for the drug companies, skeptics say. "It suggests a disorder a bit like a vitamin deficiency that will be put right by vitamins," Healy says, "when in fact the SSRIs produce marked abnormalities in the serotonin system...