April 30,
2002 -
Families Like to Share Fantasies
- by Andy Patrizio, WiredNews,
12:00 p.m. April 9, 2001 PDT,
SAN DIEGO -- People enjoy online
adventure game EverQuest so much
they sometimes forget to rejoin
the real world for hours or even
days at a time. Players have
been criticized for logging into
"EverCrack" more than they
sleep, sometimes neglecting
their work or loved ones. But
many of the 1,300 dedicated
EverQuest fans who met here this
weekend, said the game is
engendering family interaction,
not impairing it...
April
24, 2002 -
Linda Lovelace, Deep Throat porn star
who turned against her former life
- David McGillivray, The Guardian,
Linda Lovelace, who has died aged 53 as
a result of injuries sustained in a car
crash, was both the best and worst
advertisement for pornography. As the
star of Deep Throat (1972), she helped
make porn "chic." For a little while
after its release, the dirty movie
ceased to exist, while the triple-X
adult feature provided a night out for
swinging couples...
April, 19 2002 -
3-D, and Ditch the Glasses
- WiredNews, By Donna Tapellini, The
skeleton of a foot floats around a screen in a lab at New York
University. Each individual bone stands out with great clarity -- and
with good reason. The monitor is an autostereoscopic display that
presents three-dimensional pictures, without the need for special
glasses...
April 25, 2002 -
Dr. Damn cleans house for file-swappers - By John Borland,
Special to ZDNet News, The record companies had their Napster, and
the stream of file-swapping companies that followed. The file-swapping
companies now have their "Dr. Damn." For the past several weeks, the
pseudonymous programmer, who says he's a male college student and
declines to give his real name, has been releasing versions of popular
file-swapping programs online with the advertising and user-tracking
features stripped out...
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