1.   The screen flashed a message in black letters.

2.   Another graduate flashed a message asking for a job and included a phone number and e-mail address.

3.   A block away in a cyber cafe, German students hop on the Internet and flash electronic messages across five time zones.

4.   A message is flashed by radio, and the ship is recalled to port.

5.   But what if your car is also flashing e-mail messages, directing you to your destination with a navigation screen, and broadcasting shopping updates from nearby malls?

6.   But they flash their message in a firefly code that you and I cannot see or decipher.

7.   Colleagues would return from lunch to find flashing messages on their computer screens that were impossible to delete.

8.   If any other message were constantly flashed in our faces, it would be recognized and denounced as indoctrination.

9.   Inadvertently, the scoreboard flashed a message congratulating the Sox as World Series champions, an electronic Dewey-beats-Truman bit of trivia.

10.   Norton flashes a message on your screen, suggesting that you hook up to the Symantec Web site for the latest features.