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...also found Pocket PC's handwriting-recognition skills to be woefully inadequate. It kept reading my a's as g's or u's, my b's as d's and sprinkling periods liberally throughout my text. A few hours of this, and my head was throbbing; I reverted to tapping in my letters one at a time on the onscreen keyboard. For the time being, I'll stick with Palm's tried-and-tested Graffiti alphabet...
Indeed, the all-in-one functionality of the Pocket PC is enough to make you drop to your knees and thank heaven for the 21st century. Surfing the Web with text and full-color photos was a joy. Reading and sending e-mail--even with nettlesome attachments--was a snap. Plugging in headphones and listening to MP3 music files while playing solitaire made my morning commute...
OYEZ! OYEZ! Now you can get the latest rulings on abortion, civil rights and cyberlaw straight from the source. The U.S. Supreme Court has just launched its official website at supremecourtus.gov where the full text of its decisions will be posted by noon on the day they are announced. The court's calendar, schedule and rules will also be available. But if you want to make sense of the legalese, you may be better off visiting Northwestern University's Oyez Project at oyez.nwu.edu where detailed analyses of rulings are posted as well...
Other connections between the text and the art are more obscure. Most modern-day viewers have difficulty seeing the anti-Semitic overtones that Katz points out in Michel Wohlgemut's drawing of Christ's circumcision, as shown by a look at the puzzled comments left by visitors. Likewise, the fact that Mary's Assumption into heaven is not part of Protestant belief says little about Pedro Gonzalez Berruguete's depiction of her ascent...
Such an enormous array of historical, religious and artistic cross-references poses a challenge to the viewer expecting to come away with a clear sense of how Mary has been portrayed over time. A recognition of the subtle connections between the artwork and the text as well as an appreciation of the art on its own terms is well worth the effort. Don't expect to digest this exhibit in one visit...