29 March 2001

By The Morning News — 29 Mar 2001

NYTimes and other publishers invoke out-dated law to prevent freelance writers from collecting what's due.

Fiber-optic cable was to be the invincible market of the next decade, but now there's too much cable, and not enough technology; a good review of the situation.

With $6B in the bank and laptops flying off the shelves (they are awfully light), the Wall St. Journal calls Apple a "safe" stock. [wsj]

The downfall (and rise) of the Dot-com era has lead to a number of mind-less and long-winded management pundits saying mundane and pointless things, over and over to prove their crushing small-mindedness, as if we were all stuck in a national frenzy for all-day consultant meetings; a good example is this article.

The D.C. Police have many offensive emails to deal with, and they're all written by police officers.

NASDAQ stopped MarchFirst trading at sixteen cents amid reports of a twenty-five percent layoff.

Awesome: a flying power station.

The NYTimes gives a fluff, albeit well-written fluff, review to OSX.

How it works: GPS.

Sprint introduces first full-color cell phone; can it show pictures of J-Low?

Dutch police fight cell phone theft by emailing crooks and crooked customers.

Mike Daisey has opened the door to the Amazon empire, and now he's barking out the truth.

Akira is being re-released in New York, for now with a nice Flash site.

Sexist, condescending, and incredibly popular: The Rules, continued.

Dear God: Guy power apparently means chin implants, hair helmets, and manicures.

Woody Allen said "Gossip is the new pornography;" He must have heard of Popbitch.