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Sunday, 31 August 2008 |
By Aaron Siegel
 Yes, not too long ago there was a company that launched Internet use into the average household. Remember the name AOL? AOL was pretty much the standard for Internet communications, even for many businesses. You waited for the sound of your modem to dial up and viola ... you had access to news, chat rooms, search engines, and a whole vast unknown world of web sites to explore.
While we all probably enjoyed the great wonder of the technology, dial up was a pain in the butt. We had to wait to connect and even then cross our fingers hoping we wouldn't be disconnected from our coveted connection. Disconnects led to newer and improved versions of AOL and birthed competing companies such as Earthlink promising fewer dropped connections online.
As people adapted to the Internet they began to want to surf the Internet faster to obtain more information and do more. To address the issue, many providers began creating dial up that claimed to be faster. The problem with the faster dial up was to get the optimal speed you had to sacrifice |
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 |
By Samantha Gilmartin
 The ideal meeting of the decadent movement might have been Oscar Wilde's short play Salome. Originally written in French in 1891, Wilde's tragedy tells in one act the biblical story of the beautiful Salome, the stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, and the final few days of the life of John the Baptist.
Told in elegant and powerfully symbolic prose, the play is often called Wilde's piece of "strange music". Oscar incited this idea himself by declaring in a letter that "the recurring phrases of Salome,... bind it together like a piece of music" Its flamboyance, its hypnotic rhythms, recurring lexical riffs and hauntingly melodic passages stitch the action together in such a way as to mimic some sort of dramatic aria.
When Salome was translated into English three years later the text was accompanied by highly stylised and erotic illustrations by the young Aubrey Beardsley. Perfectly capturing the attitude of Wilde's lyrical decadence and visual intensity, the etchings seem now almost inseparable from the original script.
Naturally, this movement wasn't limited to Britain, the roots had been |
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