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Plug in Pest Offense, whose digital cycling uses the wiring in your home to irritate the nerves of rats, mice, spiders, etc., and to zap them out without killing them. How humane; Pest Offense’s inventor, Don Hodgskin, is “an environmentalist.” Thanks to Pest Offense, Sherry Ball can “leave the cake out and never have to worry about it.” Good to hear. May we have a piece...
...block mail by addresses or subject lines. This quickly turned into an entertaining game of cat and mouse. I blocked the address of anyone who sent me spam, only to find that most spammers change their addresses every time. So I focused on the subject line, telling Eudora to zap any mail that mentioned miracle diets, making money at home, refilling ink-jet printers or securing cut-rate Viagra...
...crooked doctor. No new adventure hero, it seems, will be admitted to the schedule without an ethnic identity badge. ABC's "Kung Fu" is a sort of "Fugitive" foo yung ? a Chinese priest permanently on the lam in the American West of the 1870s, nonviolent but ready to zap troublemakers with the self-defense art of kung fu. The title character of NBC's "Banacek" (one of three rotating shows in the NBC "Wednesday Mystery Movie") is not only a rugged insurance sleuth but also a walking lightning rod for Polish jokes...
...episodes." (Says network spokesman Paul McGuire: "The WB would not have gone forward with the show unless we liked and embraced the concept of the program.") There are longer-term pressures at work too. Digital video recorders like TiVo are making it easier for viewers to zap past ads. Commercial breaks--16 minutes or so of every TV hour--have stretched the limits of viewer tolerance. And this "clutter," plus the metastasizing of ads to benches, bananas and buses, makes it hard for a commercial message to stand out. "Commercial TV makes all its money from advertising," says Burnett...
...Anoto server, the server would recognize which set of dots the note came from - but not the contents of the note itself - and pass it on to the server of the manufacturer of the paper I've written on. The manufacturer's server would execute the send command, zap the note to my e-mail address and deliver an exact reproduction of my handwritten note to my computer...