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...home, a free screen saver (available at setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu that uses your computer's downtime to help sort through the reams of noisy static gathered by radio telescopes. The odds of pulling a Jodie Foster (who snared the elusive extraterrestrial signal in the 1997 sci-fi flick Contact) are a zillion to one. But if you fail--or even if you succeed--nobody's going to burn you at the stake...
...earth's curves, unfurling a sphere into a serrated plane. During the age of exploration, cartographers scrambled again to make the most navigable two-dimensional renderings of the globe, leading to the invention of the Mercator projection in the 16th century. Taking pictures of the earth from a zillion miles away has certainly helped things along today, although "seeing" where you are on any map at all starts to feel old-fashioned post...
...could have incarnated Top Guns and baby Terminators, or starred in any of a zillion teen comedies. But he chose a tougher route to filling out his resume. And as it grew, in his seven major roles before Titanic, a portrait of the young artist began to emerge. So often DiCaprio played the emotional orphan, in a forlorn quest not for a father but for his own budding maturity--for a chance to become the man who needs no father...
...from designers like DKNY, but I don't spend that much money. When I buy clothes. I've been through so many phases. When I was in New York there was the Salvation Army phase when I bought so many polo shirts from the 70s. I have like a zillion and a half, none of which you've ever seen me wear. I have shitloads of 70s clothes, not to mention all my bellbottoms that I wear with all my sneakers. When I'm with my mom we get mid-range in price but when I'm by myself...since...
...Diary of a Country Priest (1951), and a worthy successor to The Last Temptation of Christ, Martin Scorsese's 1988 parable of doubt purified into faith. Love Dogma or dismiss it, but don't condemn the film for what it isn't. As Ben Affleck, one of the zillion-dollar stars in this $10 million film, says, "It's a rumination on faith. With dick jokes...