18 April 2001 By The Morning News — 18 Apr 2001 Bikers, Bakers, and other crazy Europeans have their own take on E-commerce.Financially-naive Microsoft engineers have margin-loaned their way to bankruptcy, and some blame Salomon Smith Barney for leading them down the path.With a name like Ducati, your products roar off the Web in record time.Yahoo hopes movie mogul will have enough media skills to turn portal stock-price around.Mississippi stays "Reb" and other highlights of this week's news.Bush refuses to appoint Privacy Czar and leaves its business with the White House Office of Management and Budget.British Defense Ministry loses 51 laptops a year.Joey Ramone left a gift before dying: his last DJ playlist.The worst example of dot-com PR yet: VoyeurDorm.com wants to broadcast McVeigh's execution.IBM Nerd warrior sees Web-software simplifying the complexity of code.Based on Black & White, Opera Browser introduces "mouse gestures."Manhattan's Lower East Side becomes a U.S. Historic Place.Impressive Volvo Flash piece.England's finest literary critic, James Wood, boils Updike's Rabbit.Dave McKean, illustrator of Sandman fame, has a great fan site.
