Word: notebook
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...immature, even for poop jokes. But Winkler's 450 doodie sketches have got everyone's attention. "The world has been deprived of graphic potty-humor animation because animation was expensive," he says of the dark, pre-doodie days. Sitting up on his chaise longue, he pops open the notebook computer from which, in just a few hours, he will send a brand-new diarrhea-plagued bunny hopping along the information superhighway...
Some people melt over wafer-thin notebook PCs. Others get finger twitches thinking about their next death match in Quake III. But what really brings out the techno-geek in me is a killer search engine that finds just what I'm looking for, and fast. That's why Google has made it to the top of my bookmark file. The engine was developed by two Stanford Ph.D. students and named after the mathematical term googol, which stands for 10[100th power]. The great thing about Google is that it works...
This rule raises a remarkable and baffling array of questions and problems. How does one exactly enforce the limit? Do wandering proctors and administrators periodically stop by dorms, notebook in hand, poking around for cans and bottles? Perhaps a team of forensic experts who can determine whether the slew empty cans on the floor are evidence of recent infractions or a casual approach to cleaning...
Perhaps it is Boleslaw Z. Kabala who remains rooted in "skin-deep culture" (Ed Notebook, Mar. 3). His suggestion that a good-sized paycheck takes away from a star's "minority experience" is demeaning. Kabala's brazenness to "grant" that Will Smith, Antonio Banderas and Jennifer Lopez might once have had to face hardship and discrimination, but no longer have to deal with it after receiving their "stratospheric paychecks," is the largest falsity in his article. The whole point of racism is that people are judged by their race and/or ethnicity and not by their intelligence, ability, talent or paycheck...