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...Fi. While nothing bores me more than new standards, look for Wi-Fi compatibility as you shop for wireless stuff. The name stands for "wireless fidelity"; what it means is that any network devices that are Wi-Fi certified can work together. Why should you care? Because increasingly, you'll be able to use these devices in public places like airport lounges, hotels and fast-food joints to find and hop onto high-speed connections...
...Godfather III, brings an ethereal and dark cinematic feel to the project. Leaving aside the fact that her father is one of Hollywood's immortal directors and produced the film, Sofia competently handles the job of director on her virgin film debut. Stylistically, the film has an interesting low-fi, '70s feel that adds to the mystery and spectral nature of the film. But the stylistic achievement unfortunately can't overshadow the problematic content that plagues it, and eventually relegates it to the label of "a good movie". After leaving the theater, the film's publicist asked me what...
Early on the morning of Sept. 18, Collin Burton stopped at Central Sqaure's Hi-Fi Pizza on his way home from a night in Harvard Square. According to police reports, after an argument with the occupants of a green Ford Bronco, Burton banged his fist on the jeep's hood. The Bronco's passenger fired once into Burton's chest. He died the following morning...
...people who have downloaded SETI@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...
...million years ago, for example, our predecessors had brains barely half as large as ours today. So it would seem to follow that in another couple of million years, our brains will be twice again as large, housed in the huge globular heads familiar from innumerable sci-fi images. Conversely, our immediate forebears were robustly boned and, we think, more heavily muscled than we are today. What could be more natural than to conclude that supported by increasingly complex labor-saving technologies, our bodies will in future be frailer and shorn of such frivolities as the little...