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...overpasses aside, the bus life seems well suited to those looking to avoid life's small annoyances. Take highway congestion. Chriss and Myrna Crawford, from Missoula, Mont., were caught in a three-hour traffic jam on a Los Angeles freeway several years ago. While the exasperated car drivers around and below them craned their neck and cursed, the Crawfords calmly cooked their dinner. In a generation or two, maybe all of us will take...
...could conceivably jam thousands of these micromirrors into a soccer ball and have enough capacity to connect everyone on the planet simultaneously to everyone else without the time and expense of converting the light to electronic impulses and back again--as today's networks require. Kick that around. Declares Bell Labs scientist David Bishop, who led the development team: "You will either have a technology that does this, or you will have a going-out-of-business sale...
...long and hard here, and people get depressed, so we let it all hang out on the weekend," says Birgir Orn Steinarsson, 25, lead singer for an up-and-coming Icelandic rock group called Maus. Most revelers go from club to club in a giant pub crawl that can jam Reykjavik's narrow streets with up to 5,000 drunken kids every Friday and Saturday night. Some clubs feature deejays and techno rock, while others offer live bands playing anything from R. and B. to the alternative Icelandic rock that singer-actress Bjork made world famous. But music is hardly...
...lyrics are a bit more mature and thoughtful. The album's 10 tracks showcase Maida's quest not only to reconcile man with machine, but also to attain some level of spiritual realization. Kurzweil himself appears on the album, reading excerpts from his book and sounding generally ominous. Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron, a longtime friend of the band, also appears on a couple of tracks, filling in for Jeremy Taggart who was injured mid-recording during a mugging incident...
...tour schedule that included two trips through Canada, club appearances in the U.S. and Europe, and a stint at the Summersault Music Festival. At one point the band recorded two songs in three days, leaving the mixing up to Brendan O'Brien, whose previous gigs include Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. Despite its conceptual pretenses and the spoken-word excerpts from Kurzweil's book, Machines is hardly a departure for Our Lady Peace. If anything, it is a return to the energy and simplicity of Naveed. Machines has already gone gold following in Canada following its 2000 release there, continuing...