WHAT IF GOD HAD VOICE MAIL? We have all learned to live with voice mail as a necessary part of modern life. But have you ever wondered what it would […]
Y2K VACATION PAY Just when you thought Y2K had come and gone away, we have received this memo. This was a memo that went out to one fortunate employee who
WHAT COMPUTERS DO Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done. —
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HERD SHOT AROUND THE WORLD NASA recently put a bunch of Holsteins into low earth orbit. They called it the herd shot round the world.
ABORT, RETRY, IGNORE? ( To the meter of “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe…) Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary, System manuals piled high and wasted
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TECHNOLOGICAL LIBERATION In our minds, at least, technology is always on the verge of liberating us from personal discipline and responsibility. Only it never does, and it never will. From
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PROVERBS FOR GEEKS A couple of “computer guys” stumbled onto this web site which has some funny buttons for sale at the site . You can choose the DotCom Button
THINKING SMALLER The micropantograph–a device used to cut extremely small markings on calibrated instruments–is capable of producing writing (legible under a microscope) on the scale of 32,000,000 words to a
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BETTING ON GOLIATH An archaeologist was digging in the Negev Desert in Israel and came upon a casket containing a mummy. After examining it, he called the curator of a
HUMOR & COMPREHENSION Riddles, jokes and computers can help children improve their reading skills. Developmental psychologists told the annual meeting of The British Psychological Society Thursday that training youngsters to
INTERNET KNOWLEDGE Everything there is to know is now on the Internet. The only problem is that you will never find it when you need it. Anonymous, adapted by Michael
PROBLEMS WITH WAR One boring afternoon, Saddam Hussein was sitting in his office wondering who to invade when his telephone rang. “Hello Mr. Hussein,” a heavily accented voice says, “This
WHISTLER’S MOTHER’S TELEVISION A kindergarten tot described the painting, “Whistler’s Mother” as follows: “The painting shows this nice old lady who is waiting for the repairman to bring back her
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PARENTS AND TELEVISION Children see television much the same way they see a refrigerator or a stove — it’s something that parents provide. In a young child’s mind, parents probably
POLITICALLY CORRECT COMPUTER Political correctness is a little much. One man recently composed a letter on his computer using the popular product of Bill Gates known as “Microsoft Windows.” In
COMPUTERIZED BLESSINGS Then there was the man who said, “I mix religion with science. I count my blessings on a computer!”
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THEY DID WITHOUT Do you realize that our forefathers did without, Sugar until the 13th Century? Coal fires until the 14th Century? Buttered bread until the 15th Century? Potatoes until
THANKSGIVING AS A FAMILY Thanksgiving is the time of the year that we remember and enact the traditions of our ancestors. They had one particularly unusual tradition. They would sit
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NO TIME FOR TELEVISION In 1939, when a prototype television was demonstrated at the World’s Fair, a reviewer from The New York Times was not impressed. “The problem with television,”
CHANGING TIMES Change has been part of the human experience since the beginning of time, but these days, it seems to occur at a much more rapid pace. Just think
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