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...ghosts are badly behaved old programs. Or as the Oracle puts it, "Every story you've heard about vampires, werewolves or aliens is the system assimilating some program that's doing something [it's] not supposed to be doing." But the monsters don't look like the ones in horror movies. The ghosts are albino twins with dreadlocks and British accents. The werewolves are just regular guys in sharp suits...
Very early on the morning of May 10, 1883, a lighthouse keeper gazing out at the Sunda Strait, which separates Sumatra from Java, saw the surface of the ocean suddenly whiten, go still, then become oil-slick smooth. Like an unsuspecting sorority girl in a horror movie, he shrugged it off as insignificant--just part of the region's usual seismic background noise. Ninety-nine days later, the nearby volcanic island of Krakatoa exploded, producing probably the loudest sound heard in human history and killing more than 36,000 people...
...highlight the need for reform, staff members on the House Education and Workforce Committee (HEWC) are trawling college campuses for horror stories of students from elite schools who can't name the President or solve the simplest math problems. Among the examples they have unearthed is a letter from a former AT&T manager, charging that an electrical-engineering major from Johns Hopkins hired by the company was "totally unprepared. He came to me asking what the symbols were on one of the blueprints. I thought he was kidding, but found he was serious." Committee members also point...
...scary cautionary tale--but at this point, hypothetical horror stories are almost beside the point. The people have spoken, and they say they want a revolution. File sharing isn't going to save us from corporate entertainment the way the Beatles saved Pepperland from the Blue Meanies, but if it allows more people to listen to more music in more ways than they ever have before, can it be all bad? And does good or bad even matter? Technology has a way of sweeping aside questions of what is right or wrong and replacing them with the reality of what...
...they still hold hikers, both on the trail and posing, tangled up in trees, or else broad ideas, as in her cityscape of what seems to be downtown Boston, where a polished granite wall bears the inscription “HOLOCAUST.” The word’s horror and history populate the photo with suggestions for further inquiryabout the relation of the Holocaust to modern-day, urban America...