Short Stuff

Timex is one step closer to the Dick Tracey watch. Like most digital watches, Data-Link carries the usual alarms and settings. Using the supplied software on Microsoft's Schedule+, you can cram in up to 150 entries that appear as scrolling messages on the watch face. By clicking a button in the software and holding the watch about a third of a metre away from a desktop computer monitor, the watch downloads the information via a photosensitive eye.--
Time Digital

The website of Mennonite Central Committee (http://www.mennonitecc.ca/mcc) has received another award, this time from an organization called Charity Village (http://www.charityvillage.com/charityvillage/morg14.html), which exists to help Canadian non-profit organizations utilize the World Wide Web. It gave the MCC site its "Webmaster" award, praising its simple format, many links and "unexpected depth".--
Charity Village

The movie Independence Day, also known as ID4, grossed $100 million in six days, faster than any film in history. The previous five-day mark was set by 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day which sold $52.3 million worth of tickets. 1993's Jurassic Park hauled in $82 million in seven days. ID4 is a tongue-in-cheek story about inhabitants of earth (led, of course, by the US) fighting off an alien invasion. 20th Century Fox execs say that it is geared to attract a family audience--with virtually no sex or swearing--but some scenes may be frightening for young ones. There is alsome violence, though not graphic.--
Youthworker Update

Reader's Digest is the largest circulation magazine in Canada at almost 1.2 million copies. It is followed by Chatelaine, TV Guide, Canadian Living, Maclean's and Time.--
Masthead

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