4 April 2001

  • Dumb Will Hunting should have used a computer: MIT's class materials are now free on the web.
  • Dell attacks Apple's hold on the university market in foreign countries. [wsj]
  • AOL/TW increases its stake in cash-starved Oxygen.
  • Emails will soon interrupt you if they're considered "urgent" enough, says Gates.
  • MS enters the music field with MSN Music: free at first, subscriptions later.
  • Breasts for sale in order to prevent breast cancer.
  • Online 3D simulation helps hunger organizations study famine.
  • Computer forensics is a growing field, though it hasn't revealed its daggers, yet.
  • Artsy Flash in the 23rd room.
  • Michael Mandiberg, who was trying to sell his stuff, now sells his time as a conceptual artist; he will do anything you want for twenty bucks an hour.
  • Big surprise: Harvard students get big-money elite jobs because of their outstanding GPAs which are based on lies.
  • The UL.A. proposes to take down Post-Modernism, brow-beat MFA students, and deliver the head of Rick Moody to Peggy Guggenheim; they also want fame, fortune, and a place in the establishment.
  • I don't speak the language, but Fjallfil's cows make me laugh.