12 April 2001

  • The ethics of cloning: a level-headed approach is necessary.
  • Kozmo shuts down early in order to give severance pay to 1,100 employees.
  • Yahoo reports first quarterly loss in two years and plans to lay off 12 percent of 3,510.
  • WIRED magazine picks up new editor from The Economist.
  • PWC will cut 750-1,000 pompous hacks (Ed. note: slight bias in this one).
  • Napster saga: Judge opens class-action suit to other record companies.
  • Prepare to be weaned: Microsoft and RealNetworks want their users to stop using MP3s.
  • Hebborn's master forgeries hang in the world's best museums, and force them to lie.
  • Scient will cut 675 jobs and move to New York.
  • Intel launches peer-to-peer cancer research effort (no Mac version yet).
  • Suspect journalism: NYTimes gives fluff-job to new IBM machine; also has strategic business alliance; hmm...
  • In the battle for invisible computers, Linux may win the system war.
  • I-Tunes trippy graphics dude chose Charlie-Sheen-Seal over Facial-Scars-Seal.
  • You build the track; You race the car; You lose to a chicken.
  • The history of publishing has never been grand, judging by old Knopf reader reports.
  • Star Wars, in ASCII.