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...Rubber Band Ball, I missed Jovon. He's nonchalant, slick, adored by his female classmates and doesn't have to resort to impugning his own manhood to make people laugh. I guess I liked hanging out with him because he's all the things I wish I was. Though I'd miss him a lot more if he were just like...
BURNOUT The benefit of a pallidotomy, a treatment for Parkinson's in which a tiny area in the brain is cauterized, is dramatic and immediate. Long-term effects, though, may be another story. Five years after patients in a study underwent pallidotomy, characteristic problems like difficulty performing manual tasks gradually returned, though improvement in tremors, twitches and muscle stiffness was sustained. Overall, ability to bathe, dress and participate in other activities of daily living was no better than before the surgery...
...encryption forces are the nerds; with a nod to the cyberpunk school of science-fiction writers, they call themselves "cypherpunks." Though their numbers have always been small, cypherpunks are brave, bold and highly motivated. And they have some programming talent...
...holy grail of pornography, though, has always been a machine that delivers a virtual experience so real that it is indistinguishable from sex, other than the fact that it isn't at all disappointing. Though prototypes have appeared in films (the Pleasure Organ in Barbarella, the Orgasmatron in Sleeper, the fembots in Austin Powers), reality has remained painfully elusive. In his 1991 book Virtual Reality, Howard Rheingold devoted an entire chapter to "teledildonics," his not-so-clever name for devices that allow people to have sex without being in the same area code. Rheingold imagines putting on a "diaphanous bodysuit...
Fear not, though: ads won't disappear. Product placements will multiply--including digitally created insertions that can be changed with every rerun. And as your TV becomes more of a communications device than a broadcasting device, you'll subsidize your entertainment bill (as you will your phone bill, your Internet service bill and maybe your car payment) by sharing valuable demographic information and agreeing to receive precision-targeted...