11 April 2001

  • When homicide seems justified: Microsoft plans ad campaign around the death of Clippy.
  • Amazon will handle Borders's book selling online.
  • Tapping those masses: Yahoo turns to porn for new revenue.
  • Judge threatens to shut down Napster unless it complies with a court-ordered filtering mandate.
  • Germany's techno-topian love parade may get canceled because someone forgot to get a permit.
  • Everyone became a freelance Web developer; everyone ran out of clients.
  • Security flaw found in Alcatel DSL modems.
  • A book by glad-to-be-rich-enough-to-afford-cocaine-Damien Hirst costs $1500.
  • You've heard of eBay, but have you seen BidForSurgery.com?
  • Mode4 gives away its source files, you lucky Flasher you.
  • The father of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, describes the "Semantic Web" as the future of the net.
  • The Power Station has VR buses and its own trailer movie.