PLUGGED IN : BIZ BYTES.ATTENTION, KMART SHOPPERS: Kmart is selling cash. The Kmart Cash Card, that is. It's an electronic version of the Kmart gift certificate but with a twist: The plastic card can be used for AT&T calls as well. The cost is 35 cents a minute for domestic calls while international rates vary. ``This is simpler for our customers to use,'' said Teresa Stephens, a spokeswoman for the Troy, Mich.-based retail chain. The card can be purchased in any amount. After the card's funds are depleted de·plete tr.v. de·plet·ed, de·plet·ing, de·pletes To decrease the fullness of; use up or empty out. [Latin d , customers can add more money to them and use the card again. But don't lose it - there's no way for the store to cancel the card. It's just like cash. Customers who return products to Kmart without a receipt will get a Kmart Cash Card. The card will be available starting Aug. 17. SITE OF THE WEEK FOR NET ADDICTS ADDICTS Acoustic Digital Data Information & Control Transmission System : Loopy Web sites are getting hard to find. The wacky, well-done sites that once dominated the Web - before it became the next great hope of commerce - seem as doomed as the dinosaurs. That's why it's important for someone in cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. to step up to the plate and preserve one of the quirkiest Web sites on the Internet. It's called Addicted ad·dict·ed adj. 1. Physiologically or psychologically dependent on a habit-forming substance. 2. Compulsively or habitually involved in a practice or behavior, such as gambling. To: Stuff, www.morestuff.com. A2Stuff - the shorthand shorthand, any brief, rapid system of writing that may be used in transcribing, or recording, the spoken word. Such systems, many having characters based on the letters of the alphabet, were used in ancient times; the shorthand of Tiro, Cicero's amanuensis, was used version of the site's full name - is a wonderful collection of oddball things to see, do and read on the Internet. Among the stuff you will find here is a pointer to a Web site titled ``Handy Latin phrases This page lists direct English translations of common Latin phrases, such as veni vidi vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as Greek rhetoric and literature were highly regarded in Ancient Rome when Latin rhetoric .'' There you will discover the translation for the most commonly spoken sentence in the state of Florida. Here it is: ``Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat'' means ``It's not the heat, it's the humidity.'' |
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