Telco Trouble in Finland
... runners' times and other news. The marathon will be held in Chicago's Grant Park on Sunday, Oct. 7.
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U.S. appeals court rules against FCC: In a blow to the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. appeals court refused to delay the process for handing over valuable wireless spectrum license......more...China Posters Spew on Spy Snafu
... Hainan Island to get the crew back.
The following message was posted on a Yahoo board on April 3 by joh_jizum:
Blockade their ports with submarines. Blow up their dams with cruise missiles. It is time to take the gloves off. I support George W. Bush in any force that must be used against China. Giv......more... Napster Gets Grace
...tement said.
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Change at the top: Wired magazine editor in chief Katrina Heron said she would resign from her job for personal reasons, dealing a blow to the publication's owner, Conde Nast.
The magazine, which is separate from Terra Lycos-owned Wired News, had a strong year in 2000, but has not......more... Readers on (Wired News) Style
... yeah? Well fuck you too, buddy. If you'll pardon my French.
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Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 3:50
From: Brian D. Smith
Thank you for striking a blow for literary sanity! I couldn't agree more with your point regarding the value of style in providing clarity in writing. It may have been cool to......more... Mondo Porno
...insky. Clinton
as Expert Negotiator, obtaining
six drop-everything-and-
bring-me-a-pizza hummers in
exchange for listening to 45
minutes worth of the Blow Job
Czar's thoughts on education
reform. (Those school uniforms
are so heinous!) Clinton as
Human Database, instantly
recalling Lewinsky's full n......more... PointCast Bags Baby Bell Exec
...PointCast hit one over the fence here.
Former colleagues at Sprint say Dorman's decision in 1994 to take the Pac Bell job was viewed as a significant blow to Sprint, and his name was one of many put forward in media speculation about potential successors to Robert Allen at ATT.
Dorman is probably on......more... Post-Nerds, Part III: The Geek Underground
...prized their individuality, holding some part of themselves apart from others' expectations.
They were constantly rolling their eyes at the suits and blow-dried creatures whose work they made possible.
They knew that the tables had turned in a profound way. They would be tolerated now because they w......more... The Raw and the Cooked
The Raw and the Cooked
The combination of smart filters and free-flowing data is a blow against media monopolies, Steve Silberman says.
by Steve Silberman
6:03 p.m. July 7, 1997 PDT
A couple of months ago, I wrote a profile of a site called The Smoking Gun. The evenings-and-weekends pastime of New Y...more... The Things That Unite Us
...nce was that other geeks were everywhere, running the sound or manning the cameras. They run the Digital Nation. Even in the TV age, which brought us blow-dried politicians and newscasters, maybe a geek leader could emerge.
What a sweet way to hit the millennium.......more... |