20 March 2001
By The Morning News
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MIT Futurist blames net-economy on badly-designed computers.Fed may cut interest rates today; should we consult the Greenspan briefcase index?AOL/TW & Sun tell the Fed that MS's Hailstorm is a "choke-hold".AOL spam fliter rejected 100,000+ emails from Earthlink.Palm purchases Peanut Press to have more e-books.El Presidente Dubio-Dubio retires from cyber-life, forced out of AOL chat room "Teens 4 Bush."New EA game, Majestic, calls you back, sends you email, and reads your IMs.Organic employees forbidden to trade stock.Two years from now, all subway trains in New York will have automated voices, and the new world will be born.Unabomber target develops
"data-stream" desktop software to replace folders system.New Napster-like software searches net radio for the song you want, finds it, and saves it on your hard drive.Russians won't fly into space without their millionaire friend.McQueen says farewell to Givenchy.Scrap-pile has some nice Flash experiments.Software makers should owe end-users a dollar every time their product crashes.Toneart has some funky funky fluff.
