9 April 2001
By The Morning News
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IBM launches Web-based air conditioning in Europe, where users can turn on and off their cooling systems with the net. [wsj]The next to fall will be VCs without ties to the Rockafellers.Only psychopaths love Verizon (is this new to anyone?): a history of wireless product placement in Hollywood, or, how Keanu Reeves was upstaged by a Nokia.Sony invests in Web graphics group to make game-based trailers for its films.A matter or neurological linguistics: the term "brain dead" and the hope it connotes are a deadly combination.The Industry Standard's site gets redesigned, for far worse, suggesting a shift to the print-pay-back.As the Web turns more to promotion than commerce, and broadband slowly becomes real for real people, what Web graphics firm isn't smart enough to hire a couple motion designers? Apparently, iXL has thought ahead: angels and dirt in Quicktime.Robot designers study gecko lizards in order to learn wall climbing.Sanyo makes tech-friendly coats for cell-phone toting Banana Republicans.Sun's CTO claims Kubrick as father of Inter-web.Attention NYC mid-towners dumb enough to eat at salad bars: don't eat at salad bars!Nice photography sitemade by Amy of the Future Farmers.More photography: Simonladefoged.Richard Posner is a widely-quoted, cold-blooded legal writer, and he has a serious problem with academics and judges, though he loves Meg Ryan.Oh, why not: another photographer, Dean Zillwood, and what do you know, there's tiny little squares to navigate by!
