21 March 2001

  • Salon begins to charge for "premium" content: more stories and no ads.
  • New Pepsi ad, with Britney Spears, will have a sneaky preview on Yahoo.
  • All New Yorkers have cell phones, and hate themselves for it; now they're scared they'll start using them on the subway.
  • Restaurant busboy fleeces celebrities with a library card.
  • Mexico's new Fox makes first official U.S. visit: to Silicon Valley, not D.C..
  • Xpedior will lay off 300 (42%); calls its own stock "worthless."
  • A cool breakdown of a Visor's anatomy.
  • OSX is ready to roll, after seven years of "feature creep."
  • Gameboy Advance debuts in Japan; U.S. rollout this summer.
  • Illegal in its prime: prime number, written in base 16, can decrypt DVDs.
  • Mike is right: Design Object looks like a lovely way to shop.
  • Steve Martin is a crappy writer who gets good reviews because he was funny and published because he's famous.
  • Voxus has very nice pictures.