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Card, by contrast, is a soft-spoken, slightly geeky-looking psychologist and computer scientist; his group is involved in the more practical, down-to-earth business of making the Web more readable. He uses the jargon of Internet ecology, talking about the way we "forage" for information and hunt its "scent" to produce a balanced "diet." But that doesn't make his tools and results any less gee-whiz than Gold's. Step into Card's lab, and he will show you the device he uses on his test subjects, a metal headpiece with little cameras positioned in front...
...brothers often watched their father work on his car and make repairs around the house. The boys built their own toys, turning bamboo tubes into pressurized chinaberry shooters and transplanting a lawn-mower motor onto a go-cart. Once, Johnson caused an explosion in his mother's kitchen while mixing, of all things, rocket fuel. He had got the recipe from a library book, using saltpeter and sugar. As it cooked on the stove, the mixture bubbled to the surface, filling the kitchen with so much smoke that young Lonnie couldn't see his hands, and burned a chair...
...Matrix, that kung fusion of Hong Kong technique and Hollywood technology, featured some prime Yuen sorcery (he is now preparing the two sequels). "When I'm working with good directors," he says, "they'll often come up with ideas that profoundly inspire me. And then if I can make them workable, we'll shoot them...
...camera for you. When you shoot a picture with the new Kodak Advantix Preview ($299), it takes a regular old picture on film and captures a digital image at the same time, so you get a sneak peek at the shot you just snapped. That way, if you make that goofy face again, you won't have to wait for the prints to find...
...Which means it probably was. So rather than make a 5-4 decision with enormous precedential weight and uncertain political implications, the Court sent the whole "protest"-phase mess back to the Florida Supremes to readdress the issues, clarify its thought processes, and call them back. Which the state court will certainly do, even while hearing Gore's now-certain appeal of Judge Sauls' "contest"-phase decision against him to that same seven-member body...