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"The Academy Awards are only 3 days away and according to Nielsen\u2019s data, Sandra Bullock is leading in the online buzz for the \u2018Best Actress\u2019 category. Time will tell if social media indicators have any correlation to her chances of winning. But the star has not always had such a charmed relationship with the digital realm. One only has to remember a different era--the mid-90s--and her starring role in the tech thriller \u2018The Net\u2019 which emphasized the dangers of digital media.\r\n\r\nThe film\u2019s central character, played by Ms. Bullock, avoided all personal contact, had no real friends, and her stolen identity, the central point of the movie, was due to her all encompassing digital lifestyle. Her lifestyle in the film is quite simple to recreate with today\u2019s technology platforms for serious fans of Ms. Bullock with this handy guide:\r\n\r\nHow to Live \u2018The Net\u2019 Lifestyle\r\n\r\n\tOrder your take-out online: In the film, this was supposed to illustrate how cut off from real human contact she was, but it is also undeniably awesome. Nowadays we can accomplish this through most major pizza chains\u2019 sites, Seamless Web (in New York City), or Open Table, but back then Sandy used a pizza.net (perhaps the world\u2019s greatest url?).\r\n\tPut your medical records online: There are benefits to digitizing your digital history via Google Health, Microsoft Health Vault and PatientsLikeMe. The events in the movie did take a tragic turn as Dennis Miller\u2019s character was killed off by hackers falsifying medical records.\r\n\tBooks your vacations online: This has become one of the most popular online activities. Did Sandra use Kayak? Travelocity? Probably neither since this was 1995.\r\n\tWork remotely: Between Skype for\u00A0telecommunications, Box.net for filesharing, Google docs, you can successfully work from home just as easily as Sandra did.\r\n\tChat online: Who needs \u201Creal\u201D people in your life when you can chat online all day, especially with Gchat and Google Buzz? After all what IS Google Buzz but a latter day 1990s chatroom?!\r\n\r\nChances are you are probably already sort of living out Sandra Bullock\u2019s futuristic digital lifestyle. Come Oscar night, perhaps Sandra herself will be re-inspired by her \u201CNet\u201D days and skip the ceremony to stay home and order from pizza.net.\r\n\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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