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...Ford, for its part, announced a deal with Microsoft to equip cars with a voice-activation system for gadgets like a cell phone, iPod or (in Microsoft's dreams) a Zune MP3 player. The system, called Sync, will supposedly convert text messages to audio too. Ford plans to make it available in 12 models over the coming year, though it could be a pricey option. Like most automakers, Ford is courting digitally savvy Gen Y shoppers and hopes the technology will appeal to them in entry-level cars like the 2008 Focus...
...antispam website that listed hundreds of addresses whose owners did not want unsolicited mail. He knew Oklahoma and federal law generally banned e-mails that lied about their origin or their paths through the Internet, and he wasn't shy about using the law to make a point. The text of the offending e-deal revealed that it had come from Cruise.com a subsidiary of Omega World Travel in Fairfax, Va. Mumma called Omega's general counsel, the curiously named John Lawless, and got him to promise that neither Mumma nor any of the addresses listed on Mumma's website...
...said: “I don’t judge, I’m just here for a drink.” One junior girl brought new meaning to the proverb “make the system work for you.” Late one night she sent a text message to Porcellian Club initiates, demanding that they deliver 10 cases of Redbull and Marlboros to her apartment. The wise lady continued to place orders throughout the night, until the Porcs-to-be finally caught on—$600 and 7-11’s entire stock of Redbull...
...were accepted into Harvard—Peter by a stroke of dumb luck and DA by the broad strokes of lies that he used to paint his application—our relationship has grown worse and worse. It has descended into us trying to sneak subtle insults into the text of this very column. DA who eats his boogers and Peter who puts turds on his pizza both occasionally slip one by the fascist and rarely helpful Crimson editors. But we don’t discredit them too much; after all, nobody’s stupider than Crimson writers. We?...
Young said that Anthony’s 1965 text “Planning and Control Systems: A Framework for Analysis” was “revolutionary” and perhaps his “greatest contribution.” Young did not use that description for Anthony’s 1964 primer on bookkeeping, “Essentials of Accounting...