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...created on a hidden site www.amazon.com:99 now defunct), and 300 friends and family members were sworn to secrecy and invited to crash-test it. "The first time I saw the site, I said to myself, 'Wow, this is it,'" recalls Shaw. It was simple, functional and wonderful. Kaphan's code was incredibly elegant and streamlined, allowing pages to be delivered without delay...
...most part, we have left these straightforward categories behind, but in high school, when we were less sure of ourselves and our identities, you could learn a lot from this question. Certain music provided very helpful associations, some more far-reaching than others. Liking Ani DiFranco was code for liberal politics and perhaps long flowery skirts or overalls. Liking Marilyn Manson meant you wanted to scare people. Liking Dave Matthews meant very little, perhaps on purpose. Bands no one ever heard of had their prestige, and if they had scary names, you were one step ahead of the game...
...family's time ringing bells beside a red kettle could be the most rewarding trip to the mall you've ever made. If you don't know which charities are active in your area, check out the website run by the AOL Foundation at helping.org Type in your zip code and your interests, and some of the 630,000 charities in the database will pop up. Volunteering arrangements and dollar donations can be made online. Similar sites are charitableway.com and allcharities.com Shop through the greatergood.com site and at least 5% of the purchase amount will be donated to a designated...
...LINUX November's anti-Microsoft court ruling was the icing on the cake for Linus Torvalds' operating system. Because it is "open source"--anyone can fix bugs in its code--Linux is the least crash-prone system around. That makes it a credible alternative to Windows...
...criminal purposes, most people don't mind that their movements are traceable." But that potential for criminal abuse has some legislators at the state and even federal level worried enough that the software may be hit within the next few years with laws banning such anonymizing code. "Inevitably, somebody will buy the product and solicit sex with a call girl and then someone will try to pass a law banning it," says Grossman. "Then we'll find out how both the legislators and courts feel." Just a friendly reminder that while we may feel weightless in cyberspace, real-world rules...