[MyAppleMenu] May 9, 2004

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Sunday, May 9, 2004

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technology. Innovative Applications. New Economy.

[Internet]

*** Japanese Find A Forum To Vent Most-Secret Feelings
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/international/asia/09toky.html>
by Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times
In a society in which subtlety is prized above all, face-to-face confrontation is avoided, insults can be leveled with verbal nuances and hidden meanings are found everywhere, there is one place where the Japanese go to bare their souls and engage in verbal combat: Channel 2.




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The other things in life

[Life]

*** The End Of The Surprise Ending
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/arts/television/09NUSS.html>
by Emily Nussbaum, New York Times
With ever more behind-the-scenes information floating around in gossip columns, online discussion boards and mainstream publications, it has now become entirely possible to find out what happens to favorite characters months in advance.

*** Our Perfect Storm
<http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-storm19may09,1,7190967.story?coll=la-headlines-magazine>
by Michael Walker, Los Angeles Times
Weather in Los Angeles is predictably placid, except every 10,000 years or so, when a freak of nature occurs -- as it did last fall.

*** The Tug Of The Newfangled Slot Machines
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/magazine/09SLOTS.html>
by Gary Rivlin, New York Times
How the slot machine was remade, and how it's remaking America.




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