Word: cybergold
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...Grand Theft Auto IV seem, by comparison, like a junkyard jalopy. Beyond that, there's the edifying display of people taking control of their own destinies by building beautiful, useful machines. The heroes of Speed Racer and Iron Man could be the garage geeks who paved Silicon Valley with cybergold; or Hollywood's visual-effects alchemists, translating their fantasies into pixels to create gorgeous movies like these. Iron Man and Speed Racer are tributes to practical ingenuity and manual dexterity, to real American innovators like Edison and Ford, Steve Wozniak and Dale Earnhardt - to the grease monkey as genius...
...real kick of these movies is the edifying spectacle of people taking control of their destinies by building beautiful, useful machines with which they're perfectly in synch. They could be the garage geeks who paved Silicon Valley with cybergold or Hollywood's visual-effects alchemists translating their fantasies into pixels to create gorgeous movies like these. Iron Man and Speed Racer are tributes to practical ingenuity and manual dexterity, to real American innovators like Edison and Ford, Steve Wozniak and Dale Earnhardt--to the grease monkey as genius...
...merge his current presidential candidacy with the Natural Law party with the Reform banner, rise above the current fray and pull a Jesse Ventura on an American electorate that he says is thirsting for an alternative. His running mate: Nat Goldhaber, multimillionaire founder and former CEO of dot-com Cybergold, Inc. (Goldhaber, by the way has been diplomatically sidestepping questions about whether he will use some of his own money to boost his and Hagelin's cause.) It is not particularly complimentary to say that of the two rival tickets, Hagelin's is by far the more electable...
FREQUENT SURFER MILES If you're the kind of bargain hunter who would switch your long-distance carrier to get extra frequent-flyer miles, then CyberGold's new Earn & Spend program, at cybergold.com may be up your alley. Consumers willing to try various online promotions--like getting a price quote from online car dealer Autobytel or performing a Web search on the Ask Jeeves search engine--can earn $2 to $8 for each task, which accrues in an online account and can be used to buy legal forms (like wills or leases), MP3 songs, or screen savers...
...rewards for obeying CyberGold marketers range from 50[cents] (for, say, accepting two free issues of Wired magazine) to $5 (for letting a company called Atrieva back up your hard disk), with larger prizes on the way. Moving your winnings to your bank or VISA card, though, requires a password and a valid address, phone number and E-mail logon--safeguards that, along with the fact that each user can win a given reward only once, should prevent tech-heads from hacking the system. Such security will be crucial to Goldhaber's goal of making CyberGold central to the world...