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...dressing well and being able to ask someone to find information on those new-fangled computers for them. Interns may walk home to save a buck, only to blow the money on Coronas in smoky bars full of fellow interns. And interns awake in the morning with another hangover, zip and scrunch themselves into the uncomfortable clothes and begin again...
Interestingly, it appears to be the physical action of dialing and holding the phone that causes the most significant distraction; Marlboro officials are still allowing citizens to zip down the highway chatting into a microphone-and-earpiece contraption. I would think that carrying on any kind of totally internalized conversation that tend to block out sounds like sirens, horns and the desperate cries of soon-to-be roadkill might be dangerous, but that's just...
...post-cold war world, Americans worry more about dotcom stocks falling on the NASDAQ than they do about missiles falling from the sky. For those who do fear nuclear holocaust, however, there is www.protectamericansnow.com There you can get your very own "Customized Missile Threat Profile." Just type in your ZIP code, and the program will tell you which countries purportedly have the ability to hit your community with intercontinental ballistic missiles--and which countries may soon have the power to make your life that kind of nightmare. The site was masterminded by Frank Gaffney, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary...
...wave but the strange riptides of this election" that will determine its outcome, says a Gore strategist. At the Bush camp, ever more confident and ever more disdainful of all things Gore, no one is intimidated by the prospect of what one Bush adviser calls "a campaign of Zip codes." Aides say it can't work, arguing that there's no way to narrowcast a message in a national campaign. "If he runs on gun control in New Jersey," says Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer, "you can be sure the press will make an issue out of it in Georgia, North...
Being nerds, however, they are rather unworldly. They are similar in dress, zip code, outlook and philosophy to the Berkeley free-speech activists of the early 1960s, except that the cypherpunks have a bigger megaphone: the Internet. They can encrypt free speech and software as well, so various uptight authority figures cannot stop their heroic data...