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Site Seeing
By JULES ALLEN Feel free to browse... Tiny thoughts, tiny actionsIf you had told me I could spend most of a morning playing games that took up a 16-pixel square, you would have been on the money. This must be the smallest usable Web site on the planet. And it's amazingly addictive. Obviously there's a Pong clone, but one of the weirdest experiences is trying to guide a Formula 1 race car around a track without being able to see where you're going. Marketing and kidspbs.org/frontline/shows/cool/rushkoff/ If my memory serves me, the best thing about being an angry young man was the anger. I was mad as heck at just about everything and certainly wasn't going to take it anymore. Maybe I'm just too old to get it now. Conformity abounds, commercialism is rife, and individuality is homogenized and available in prepaid single servings. Where's the constructive rebellion, kids? Are you just going to sit around and be spoon-fed this stuff? If you need a starter thought on your own version of anticommercialism, have a peek at Douglas Rushkoff's blistering views on the subject. I liked the excerpt from the book so much I bought the thing. The irony of the purchase was not wasted on me. Expialidocious, apparentlyAt first glance, the most interesting thing about this site is it's invisible to any browser that doesn't do Macromedia Flash. There's no alternative version, which makes it sort of invisible to anything but the most modern search engine. But it's worth a visit, even if the interface can be mildly inconsistent and sometimes annoying. It's a whole bunch of movie reviews with an attitude. And if the primary reviewer's opinion isn't enough, there's a backup review there for the clicking. The new Apple corewired.com/wired/archive/5.06/apple.html Cast your mind back to 1997, that place where the stock market could well be by the time you read this. Back in those days, Apple Computer was in dire trouble. The personification of the Gray Man was at the helm, and the company couldn't build enough of what it could sell and certainly couldn't sell enough of what it could build. Wired wrote a scrappy list of 100 things that the computermaker should do to save itself from itself. Having visited Macworld Expo in New York, it's quite a treat to re-read this article and see how much really has changed. Some of what was being suggested was cheeky, pure fantasy or just plain unreasonable. But some of it could well have been the blueprints of today's reality: Apple's a bull, the market's a bear. Nobody saw that coming. Switched from Windows?Here's a good one for Windows refugees if you've fallen prey to Apple's Switch campaign. It gives you a Windowslike keystroke for switching between running applications. That's Alt-Tab on the PC and Cmd-Tab on the Mac. The out-of-the-box keystroke on the Mac is almost useless for hard-core keyboard types: It switches in the order the applications are launched. On the PC, it takes you back to the program you just came from. The whole idea of the keyboard, of course, is to speed things up, not slow things down. It's a free program, which is just my price.
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