22 March 2001

  • Writers take their stories to the supreme court, for millions of dollars.
  • Reuters, with Microsoft's .NET blessing, is introducing an open-standards IM for finance industry, hoping to have traders someday buy by IM.
  • When Madonna's new video (directed by Stocker Guy Richie) got banned from the networks for violence, she took it to the Web.
  • Trend-setters are defined by their musical taste.
  • Cheney predicts national power-out unless states build 65 new plants each.
  • Robots, robots, robots: Toy fair crowded with human-helpers; none go bezerk.
  • New machines get built on a nanometer scale.
  • Crew Cuts is a fun fun fun site.
  • Thelonious Monk is the most fascinating figure in the history of jazz.
  • The Valet Chronicles goes from the Mission to North Beach.