Tell him about the twinkie: DSL provider NorthPoint, now bankrupt and acquired by AT&T, has screwed more than 100,000 people when its customers were dropped in the deal.Dogs and cats sleeping together, mass hysteria!: IBM, MS, and Pfizer to develop software that keeps your system rock-
A survey of creatures which foreshadow depression, and their literary origins. Our writer gives the lowdown on the beasts that portend misery.
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
It is, apparently, mixed separately by channel. Which, certainly, means you should listen to it with headphones. And it’s brilliant, through heartbreaking delicateness to devastating chaos and back again. Never mind…it’s impossible to describe. Best track: ‘Feel Like Goin’ Home’
Doom'd for a certain time to walk the night: Iridium returns, slowly and painfully, and its new phones promise the same attributes.That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true: Amazon-town-crier gives up public
MarchFirst will fire half its work-force: 3,500 more people.Kozmo kills Starbucks partnerships; will still ship decaf lattes.Are creative anxieties specific to women, or general to all?Baseball fans will be charged to listen to Internet broadcasts of games.Organic displays will challenge LCD to make tiny,
MTV plans big stakes on its new website, with music downloading being the highlight as Napster dies.In bad economic times, people turn on the "genetically inferior."Once the party's over, the apartments open up: SF post-boom. Companies love to advertise and promote with the
Digital art may be groundbreaking, but it can still be bland: The Whitney Twins.Complete Control: AOL makes pacts with Movietickets.com and Ticketmaster.When links become illegal: The Better Business Bureau refuses friends on the Net.With Bush ready to drill, Alaskan Federal websites get edited, no matter the
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
I first heard this album last week and it’s purely coincidence that this record is today’s top review on Pitchfork: really, I swear. Okay, so you don’t care, because you know what a great album this is. Anyway, I, too, think it’s a fantastic album (and
