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...biotech and the Mariners baseball team. Or you can go even deeper: instead of looking through all the new apartment-rental ads on classifieds site Craigslist, say, you can enter your price range and your preferred neighborhoods, and save that search result as an RSS feed. The appropriate listings pop up in your newsreader every day, just as if you'd hired a real estate agent to do the legwork. RSS is so easy to use, you might be surprised by how much more productive you become. Before I installed RSS, I was perusing some 20 websites...
Alison Goldfrapp's new single, Ooh La La, entered the British pop chart last week at No. 4. Glamorous pictures of her - often resplendent in peacock tail, gold platform heels and nothing else - are spread across major newspapers and magazines, alongside gushing reviews for Supernature, her album released this week. So what does Britain's favorite electro-rock diva do on her day off? "I'm going to buy a wastepaper bin," says Goldfrapp, speaking by phone from her home in Bath in southwestern England. "I'm very excited about it, actually." It's a rare break from her carefully...
...month run is virtually sold out, but booking agents may be persuaded to part with certain tickets at $1,000 a pop. Or you can go to the multiplex in December and catch the duo in the movie version of The Producers musical. --By Richard Corliss...
...ambidextrous computing-a Windows machine on my right and a Mac to my left-I have been using two-button scroll-wheel mice on both systems for years. In Mac OS 9 (and perhaps even earlier), the act of clicking while holding down the control key for contextual pop-up menus could be duplicated by right-clicking a USB-connected Windows mouse. That feature has been around so long it's a wonder Apple didn't launch a two-button mouse years back...
...World Food Program (WFP) says 2.5 million people in Niger (pop. 11.7 million) need urgent food aid at least until the next crops can be harvested, in two or three months. But even though the U.S. thought the problem severe enough to airlift tons of high-nutrient food to feed more than 34,000 starving children, experts have yet to upgrade Niger's situation from a food crisis to a famine. The number of people dying there is still small compared with the tolls during the disasters in Ethiopia in 1984-85 and Sudan in the mid-1990s, which claimed...