Word: ways
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Gore's grounds for action are far weaker than Nixon's. After all, there have been no serious charges of Republican misconduct, just voter confusion over a ballot--the "butterfly" ballot (in use, by the way, in Daley's Cook County)--designed and approved by Democratic Party officials...
...free software from flipside.com and you can play checkers in real time with anybody on your buddy list (special game pieces for the holidays feature the Grinch and Cindy-Lou Who). One downside: the games are only for ICQ users. Everyone else will have to find some other way to kill time...
...RECORD Secretaries who take dictation may have gone the way of three-piece suits and two-martini lunches, but Sony's new digital voice-to-print recorder ($300 including software) fills the gap. The MS1 records up to 131 minutes of brilliant ideas. Instead of a cassette, it uses a tiny memory card. Pop it into your PC (with an adapter), and the software transcribes your words into a text file. You can even highlight the transcribed text and listen for errors. They're working on the martinis...
TOUCH AND GO Admit it. Your company spends thousands of dollars on a secure computer network, and you keep your password on a Post-it note stuck to the monitor. Siemens thinks it has a better way--a mouse ($150 at siemensidmouse.com that doubles as a security system. A silicon plate embedded in the top of the device reads your fingerprint and confirms your identity by matching it to a digital image. Fingerprints make excellent passwords, says Siemens spokesman Thomas Tesluk: you can't forget them, and if you lose one, hey, you've got nine others...
...There's something more astringently satisfying in the tiger option. Either way, it's a pretty primal choice, if you think about it - an annihilating ferocity of ego version a gesture of self-abnegation that approaches a religious dimension...