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...understand how this happened. After Microsoft introduced Windows 98, it became the practice to embed all kinds of Net functionality into programs. For instance, live links to websites suddenly became commonplace in e-mail; if you were reading a message, you had only to click on the blue text to launch your browser automatically and go to the website. This was a good thing; it made life easier. But for it to work, Windows needed to know how to get to the Internet on your computer. That's why this business of designating a default browser, an e-mail program...
Formatted like a 19th century journal, with dense text and quaint line drawings, McSweeney's (whose print run is now up to 12,000) selects pieces too esoteric, untimely or otherwise uncommercial to make the glossies--experimental fiction, absurdist humor and erudite essays, like a piece on a War of 1812 veteran who believed the earth was hollow and contained habitable worlds within. Like the New Yorker before it became topical and buzz crazy, McSweeney's gives writers the time and space to indulge their interests...
...Sometime in the late nineties the train picked up speed. It was powered by extreme cynicism and quite a bit of BOLD text. Chugga chug...
TUNES WITHOUT BORDERS Bored with your local AM and FM radio stations? Soon you may have 100 new options. Pioneer presented its concept of a car radio tuned to XM, a 100-channel, national, satellite, subscription-only radio service due to debut later this year. Nicest touch: a text display identifying the upcoming song...
...establishes legitimacy in the hearts of lovers and in the eyes of society. Despite its serious implications, this exploration is nothing if not entertaining. Remarkably, the new production of Wilde's masterpiece directed by Fred Hood '02 captures both the hilarity and the deeper implications of this nearly-canonical text...