Word: virtual
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...pirates, who had acted with virtual impunity for several years and are still holding as hostages some 200 crewmen of various nationalities, were infuriated by the U.S. Navy operation. They threatened new attacks against America. "After the action they took yesterday, we will respond with action," Hassan Yare, 38, a pirate in the Somali city of Garad, tells TIME. "We're warning the owners of the other ships that if they try to attack, we will kill the crews and burn their ships." (See pictures of the brazen pirates of Somalia...
...local hole in the wall for everyone and their mother to see. Even the most invasive tabloid was limited by the necessity of sending a professional photographer to capture any newsworthy event.These days, many of us voluntarily do the hard work for the media. CNN has a virtual army of millions of camera phone-wielding viewers across the globe. Even without the prompting of CNN’s iReporter, the public today feels a need to expose every tabloid-worthy corner of our private existence. We blog, we post our entire lives on Facebook or Myspace, we whine about personal...
...studied form. According to Codrescu, we need to be rattled from our current “posthumanity”—a state of being ruled too much by reason and not enough by human vigor. We are posthumans because we live through technology, because we create virtual avatars, because “the city, the house, the car, the iPhone, the laptop, the iPod, the pillbox, the nonflesh” have become alienated vehicles for ourselves. The fear of posthumanity may seem a little exaggerated (haven’t humans always interacted, in some way, with the tools...
...find software developers. He picked up the jargon he needed to describe his project so he could put it out for a bid, and he found his first programmer - in the Ukraine - who agreed to start building the digital scaffolding for the site. Within months, Tayman had a virtual staff of 20 employees working for him in five different countries. "In fact, I didn't even meet the guy who built most of the site until the launch party," he says...
...Making of a Virtual Orchestra Tilson Thomas, who made the final selection for the April 15 concert, says the project is one way to "widen everyone's conception of what classical music is," a point he'll underscore with an eclectic program including works by Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Villa-Lobos, John Cage, Tan Dun and the DJ-composer Mason Bates. He hopes the project will demonstrate how important the genre is to people of different ages, nationalities, backgrounds and professions - and that performers will learn how to use the Internet and YouTube to better market themselves, just as budding writers...