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webmonkey: big minds on web design: jeffery veen goes over some of the highlights of seybold
whatcha gonna do when they come for you?: Troops is a great parody of COPS using storm troopers. the mirror servers suck, but its worth the wait.
ny times: europanto will destroy english from within!~: europanto is a mixture of words and grammatical structures borrowed from a number of diffrent cultures that could one day replace english on the net
south park revelation: 'south park', the animated "kids" show hampered by censors, plans to reveal the true identity of the hooded character kenny
cascading style sheets, level 2: the w3c has has released it's second public working draft of the css2 spec. it looks very interesting...
economist: brands bite back: new names have been created on the internet, but the grand old brands are making ground against them. will there be any more new, internet-based brands?
lawmakers and governers agree on tax bill: agreements where reached on an a bill to ban all internet taxes for 3 years... just in time to clear the house before easter break.
forbes: what happened to dvd?: dvd went from a prediction of 22million units sold in 1998 to only 3 million. what happened?
wirednews: urban desires to relaunch: urban desires will relaunch in mid april with less emphasis on all things ziney and more emphasis on all things digital and arty.
webreview: How free is netscapes source code... and will it work?: as the release date for netscapes source code gets closer, everyone is wondering what they'll find
wirednews: automatic sound collages: soundraider will search your hard drive for sound files, manipulate them, then stick them all together to create a whole new listening experiance.
synapse: is bill the lesser of two evils?: The more I watched, the more this business of demonizing Gates became more complicated. It wasn't any longer a question simply of whether he was too greedy and powerful for any single person or company, but of who would we rather have running the software that runs the Net and the Web - Bill Gates or Orrin Hatch and the Capitol gang? -Jon Katz
apple's sekret projekt: apple has been quietly working on a new set top cable tv/net access/cd or dvd machine...
alertbox: better than reality: Emulating the physical world will usually result in feeble and insufficient designs. Instead, websites should build on the strengths of the medium and go beyond what's possible in physical reality. Design principles for being better than reality include being non-linear, providing totally customized service, and ignoring geography. -Jakob Nielsen
finley quaye gets bitch slapped: tricky denies any relation to pop music whore finley quaye
these are the days of mister gates: someone at slate decided to publish diary entrys from bill gates week in washington. it could have been a good idea... the problem is, bill is boring.
to be or not to be: salon's greg lindsay disscuses the culture of BeOS and wether or not it will help BeOS succed
intel announces new chip: intel will be releaseing the celeron processor for use in sub $1,000 pcs. the chip is based off the current P6 architecture
huh?: marilyn manson calls internet "dangerous tool" and states that the spreading of rumors on the internet is really "strange and dangerous."
don't mess wif my monkey: monkeys attack somalian soccer team and wreak havoc in the village of burao forcing people to seek shelter in nearby dwellings
jam!showbiz: ren & stimpy creator j. kricfalusi is talking shit saying that the mr. hankey character was created by him, while south park creator trey parker says "no way dude!"
late sleepers of the world, unite and take over!: This, friends, is the dirty truth that no one will admit: The world is biased in favor of early risers.
netscape to sell its web page??: netscape says no... but it would make good business sence. netcenter doesn't fit into thier new enterprise direction.
sh1ft: black market arcade games are hot
apple drops newton: apple computer announced today it will cease development of its newton and newton related products.
msn gets out of the entertainment business: msn is canceling all its entertainment offerings except for slate and gaming zone... apparently they finally listened to users who told them the web wasn't tv.
netscape shelves java browser: netscape is puting the 'javagator' project on hold... maybe they finaly relised that java isn't sutiable for full scale applications.
amazon to enter the music business: later this year, amazon.com plans to start offering music online. if they do it as well as the do books, i may never goto a record store again.
the unbearable heaviness of slate: "Thus I fear that Slate is doomed." Brad De Long does the math on Slate.
webmonkey rates wysiwyg editors: wysiwyg editors still aren't perfect, but they're getting better. the webmonkeys run down whats good and whats bad (hint: there's more bad than good) about the top products.