San Francisco Chronicle

Here are some questions to ask if you think you are addicted to the Internet:

-- Do you spend excessive time online, or more than you intended?

-- Do you feel more depressed or lonely the more time you spend online?

-- Do you have a heightened sense of euphoria while online or using a computer?

-- Is it interfering with your job or school performance?

Daniel Seddiqui's 50 jobs

1. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints humanitarian services, Salt Lake City

2. Hydrologist, Denver

3. Rodeo announcer, Sioux Falls, S.D.

4. Cartographer, Fargo, N.D.

5. Medical device manufacturer, Elk River, Minn.

6. Agronomist, Ames, Iowa

7. Corn farming, Lincoln, Neb.

8. Park ranger, Hulett, Wyo.

Six facts you might not know about Jack Kerouac:

1. Kerouac believed that his older brother, Gerard, who died of rheumatic fever at age 10, was an actual saint, and in later life he often felt that Gerard was speaking directly to him from heaven.

An interview with Jack Kerouac by Steve Allen, done in 1959, is available on YouTube, at www.youtube.com. In the interview, Kerouac talks about writing "On the Road," and the meaning of the word "Beat." He also reads from "On the Road," which had become an immediate best seller and had Kerouac labeled the voice of his generation.

Reading beyond "On the Road"

"MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 XV." (VARIOUS DATES. NOT RATED. SHOUT! FACTORY. $59.99. FOUR DISCS.)

There's so much to absorb from this wacky 6-1/2-hour set of shows from this long-running (11 seasons) TV series, in which a man and his robot pals, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot, are forced to watch terrible, low-budget movies. They respond with sardonic wisecracks and glib asides.

How E-Verify program works:
1. An employer registers to use E-Verify through U.S. Citizenship and Information Services at www.dhs.gov/e-verify.
2. After reading and signing a Memorandum of Understanding, the employer takes an online tutorial to use the Internet-based system.

Resources:

Jed Diamond's "The Irritable Male Syndrome" (Rodale; 2004; 304 pages)
Simon Baron-Cohen's "The Essential Difference: The Truth about the Male and Female Brain" (Basic Books; 2003; 256 pages)

New ships scheduled to premiere this year:

AIDA Cruises: AIDAluna (2,050 passengers, 69,200 gross tons, April); German cruise line's third newly built ship; sister to AIDAbella and AIDAdiva.

Steven Seagal's movies may be going straight to video, but he's the Hollywood tagline king. In fact, he may be the greatest producer of taglines in movie history.

New and current DVD releases:

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