Free Personals: MONEY MORTARS THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF SEXISM
An emergency meeting of the Gender Equity Committee was called to order by my wife just as I was snapping on my new flannel pajamas and getting ready to watch Bertie Wooster and Jeeves on PBS last Sunday night.The topic was Saturday morning cartoons. Specifically, a commercial.More specifically, a commercial for tiny Lego-like (but not Lego) building blocks.My wife had seen the commercial, which was aimed at girls only. We have two sons, ages 4 and 6. They do not know when a...
Free Personals: The Birmingham Post: E-BUSINESS: Up close and personal, touching Base with Google
Google has a mantra: "Don't be evil" - which is supposed to be a reassurance to the rest of the internet community.We're led to believe that Google won't use its dominance of the internet and its bottomless bank account to do Bad Things that might get on our collective nerves. But it all depends on your definition of Bad Things. Take, for example, Google's brand-new database service, Google Base (base.google.com/base)....
Free Personals: DATING, INTERNET-STYLE
Three years after they met and fell in love, Keith and Lily are finally dating.That may sound backward, but the Orlando couple are together thanks to that most forward-moving creation - the Internet. They wooed each other online through the written word, saving e-mail messages much like sweethearts of yore bundled love letters with ribbon, pulling them out and re-reading them in quiet moments, savoring phrases, thrilling to choice words.And may the cybergods be praised for instant...
Free Personals: WEB SITE JUST FOR STUDENTS FREE SITE COVERS ACADEMICS, JOB HUNTING AND JUST HAVING FUN
Good stuff for free may top the list of what stirs the heart of a student. With tuition rising for college and university students, any way to shave a buck here or there is a welcome reprieve.And don't forget that time is money too. Under the pressure of having to finish assignments and study for exams, any way to save time would likely come a close second to freebies on any student's happy list.Well, students look up! The Internet is a good resource for free,...
Free Personals: Online love: Finding romance on the Web
When Doug Sharp of Xenia lost his wife of 16 years to cancer, one of her final wishes was that he move on. But for months after her death, he had no interest in revisiting the singles scene — until he noticed the personals on his Yahoo.com home page. "It seemed like a way to find somebody and figure out if my lifestyle and hers was compatible, without having to go through the hoops of a blind date and all that," he said.Three months into his sign-up,...