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...guessed maybe five or six of the 200 would find distributors). While there are no hard figures, experts say the number of independent films made in this country, most for budgets in the low ten thousands, has probably doubled in the last five years. The reasons are varied: the inspiring do-it-yourself success of films like Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi, which was made for $7,000 and grossed over $1.6 million; the surplus of film schools; cheaper and more accessible technologies (credible-looking features can now be shot on digital video at a cost of about...
CYBER CYCLONE: It's do-it-yourself coaster thrills on CyberSpace Mountain at DisneyQuest, the huge video arcade in Florida's Walt Disney World. Visitors design their own ride, including broken track and 360[degree] loops, then are strapped into a pitch-and-roll simulator for 90 seconds of disorienting fun. Fret not, coaster geezers: though you don't go far, you can still get motion sickness...
...growing popularity of do-it-yourself legal aid certainly seems to have caught the eyes of Texas. The court panel, which enforces a statute against the unauthorized practice of law, initially won a 1992 ban against a manual that contained forms and instructions for creating a will. More recently, the committee sued Parsons Technology, an Iowa company that markets Quicken Family Lawyer software. The case is pending. And in a letter to Nolo last year, the panel expressed concern about the company's Living Trust Maker--2.0 software, which has sold 175,000 copies nationally. Panel chairman Mark Ticer, whose...
American drug warriors, welcome to your nightmare--a do-it-yourself guerrilla narcotic spread by paranoid insomniacs who think they see federal agents through every keyhole, even when it's just the Domino's Pizza man. In cities large and small across the West and Midwest crank belt, from Oregon to Iowa, where the drug is known as the poor man's cocaine in towns that barely had cocaine in the first place, the drug arrives nonstop from every direction and by every imaginable route. Wrapped by the ounce and the pound in duct-tape eggs that can be stashed...
...allure of do-it-yourself trading is transforming both Wall Street and Main Street. Traditional brokerages, whose lock on vital information made them the market's gatekeepers, are changing their approach, and their fees. Meanwhile, a frenzied mob of e-traders has linked itself to a rapidly growing number of web trading sites. Today there are over 60 e-brokers, more than twice the number of a year ago. Many are electronic branches of such giants as Charles Schwab and Fidelity Investments, but others, like E*Trade and Datek Online, dwell mainly in cyberspace. The e-brokerages themselves have been...