Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Radcliffe officials have also spent the summer preparing the school for its October reincarnation. A $110,000 foundation grant will help cover administrative costs of the transition, ranging from new letterheads to a new Web site...
...especially since my brother is currently worth a cool $800,000 thanks to his entrepreneurial efforts. Especially since that amount of money could pay for my Harvard education at least six times over. It is enough to make even me, someone without even the wherewithal to create my own Web page, be tempted to learn what IPO means...
...topics, then shows how to research and organize a report. Kids can cut and paste information onto electronic "note cards" included in the program, then export them to a word processor for editing and arranging. In addition to the basic encyclopedia entries for each topic, there are well-chosen Web links. These proved to be just what I needed for my personal research on the Dalai Lama. I subsequently skipped to the dictionary for a definition of Buddhism and then went to the atlas to pinpoint Tibet. Having all those resources in one place really helped speed up the project...
...Print Shop Deluxe, Version 10 ($50), is a smart choice. At first I was worried that the stark interface on this graphics program would mean it was for advanced users only. But when I discovered the pre-made templates for each project type, such as banners, flyers, newsletter and Web pages, I knew I was in luck. I started by making a tongue-in-cheek newsletter about my weekend, and found I could do everything from selecting photos or clip art (out of the database of 150,000 images) to experimenting with fancy text styles, without even peeking...
Ever wonder what going online was like before the dawn of the World Wide Web? Sinha offers an intriguing look at his spiral into Net addiction during the 1980s as he gets sucked into intense role-playing games and meets eccentric computer-virus writers and fellow Net addicts. Along the way, he discovers that experience is equally "real," whether online or in the flesh. While the blurring of reality and illusion is not a new theme, Sinha's rich narrative and thoughtful observations propel this engaging memoir...