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At first, it sounds like some kind of horrible mistake.But then, when you think it through, maybe it makes sense. Maybe it's intentional. Maybe it represents a giant, faceless entity's attempt to put a more human face on its services, so to speak. Or maybe it means something else altogether. OK, you have no idea what I'm talking about.Back in March, I reported that if you called the IRS 800-number in the Yellow Book, you got connected to a phone sex...
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If you happen not to know that Gay-Lussac's law, named after the great French chemist, deals with the volume of gases, you could turn to the Internet: On the search engine called Excite, which scours the world's computers for information, type in "Gay-Lussac's law." And what is the very first thing Excite will offer you or, more likely, your teenager studying chemistry?"LIVE NUDE DUDES! HARD-CORE MEN. Click here for...
Leicester Mercury: Now that's what we call entertainment!
Had enough of the Christmas television? IF SO, Adam Wakelin has a selection of hand-me-down family games to try Christmas can be Einstein's theory of relativity in an ill-fitting paper hat - time goes a lot slower when you're with your rarely-seen relatives.It doesn't take long for the fairy dust to fade on that great family get-together if, on one side, Uncle George is dazzling you with his red-hot chat about orbital sanders and, on the other, Aunty...
Hot Chat APHRODITE OF AMERICA ONLINE LOVES 'EM, LEAVES 'EM
The modems are silent now. The chat rooms aren't as lively. And the dapper dans who once courted her can't find the Aphrodite of America Online.Not that any of the men who loved Alice Dirksen knew her real name. To them, she was Babers, Tacit and Vorpall23, pseudonyms she hid behind. And dozens of men around the country spent hours typing to her, flirting with her, sometimes falling in love with her. "I did a cute thing with 20 wishes," she...
Hot Chat NET.CETERA / And Instantly We Have Ancient History, Digital Style
THE OTHER DAY I was researching a story on failed dot-coms. I was trying to look at their Web sites, including one for Pixelon, which produced software for streaming video online before it collapsed after its CEO was hauled off to jail for embezzling funds. But I immediately ran into an archival problem that is singular to the Web: Once something is gone, it's gone. You can try to surf by Pixelon today, but there's nothing there (www.pixelon.com). When the bankruptcy...