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HotFlash 3.46

HotFlash 3.46
for the week of 25 October 1996
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Hello and welcome to HotFlash, the weekly newsletter of events and
information for HotWired and WIRED magazine.


Go Ahead and Scream
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Never have Halloween and Election Day seemed so inseparably bound. Could
it be the omnipresent cadaver mask? The Bubba-knows-best "Mr. President"
costume? The Texas leprechaun suit? The Netizen unmasks the revelers
again this week, with the help of John Heilemann, Jon Katz, and the
usual bag of tricksters.

     http://www.netizen.com/


"Television has done more to destroy American democracy," says John
Perry Barlow, "than anything that's ever been developed here." Kill your
TV if you like - but first, see "The Netizen on TV," premiering 2
November on MSNBC.

     http://www.netizen.com/netizen/tv/96/44/index0a.html


With encryption and online civil liberties as running battles for
netizens, the Electronic Frontiers Foundation won't run out of work any
time soon. We've found an open job for a sysadmin at the EFF - and other
jobs at "The Atlantic Monthly," Patagonia, the Brooklyn Academy of
Music, and Working Assets. In Dream Jobs, made possible by Dockers
Khakis (tm).

     http://www.dreamjobs.com/


Netscape finally spilled their plans for Navigator 4.0, and they seem to
leave consumers out in the cold. But the focus on the corporate intranet
is just part of the story, says Jeff Veen. Check out the Amazing
Exploding Browser, the newest RealAudio, Web video, and guestbook
scripts - in Webmonkey, a service station for the wired world.

     http://www.webmonkey.com/


In Monday's Flux, Ned Brainard ponders a generously early "retirement":
Pathfinder's Sagan heads for the hills at the ripe age of 37.

     http://www.packet.com/flux/


Could rapid technical innovation be stifling creativity on the Web?
Simson Garfinkel sees Net surfers adopting new browser technologies at
widely varying rates - and advertisers, hungry to maximize user access,
pushing for dumbed-down sites as a consequence. Check out Garfinkel on
tech, Schrage on markets, Leonard on culture, and McChesney's HotSeat,
in Packet - made possible by Oldsmobile.

     http://www.packet.com/


This week high road and low road meet in Cocktail, as scotch and
Drambuie produce a common denominator with class - the Rusty Nail.

     http://www.cocktailtime.com/


You might wonder how we spend our spare time. We might wonder why you
think we have any. But leisure will out. Check out Test Patterns, our
members-only, caffeine-fueled labor of love - featuring KHOT, MiniMind,
and the incomparable Beta Lounge.

     http://www.testpatterns.com/


If we seem jumpy, maybe it's not the coffee - maybe it's this roomful of
kangaroos. Australia launches this Tuesday, in The Rough Guide.

     http://www.hotwired.com/rough/


Meanwhile, the holidays approach, travel plans firm up, and the question
arises: Does flying make you nauseous? Motion sickness aside, Dr. Weil
says secondhand viruses, cosmic radiation, and stale peanuts do not make
for a healthful milieu. Read his advice to the airborne this week - and
his answers on black eyes, healthy reading, beta carotene, and marijuana
as medicine. And for quick health info, dive into the Doc Weil Database.

     http://www.drweil.com/


Is memetics a paradigm shift to a new theory of human belief systems, or
a trend-driven froth of Darwinism and Net hype? Aaron Lynch and Richard
Barbrook - no holds barred - in this week's Brain Tennis.

     http://www.wired.com/braintennis/


Pop celebrates Halloween all this week, ending with an exclusive
interview with Edward Gorey, illustrator and storyteller of the macabre.
On Wednesday in Pop Talk, Pop hosts an online seance - see the Talk.com
listing below for more details. And in a similar vein, Harmon Leon
sketches a "Satan Sex" episode of "Friends," John Alderman reviews "The
Death of Frank Sinatra," Rob Levine finds Marilyn Manson more silly than
scary, and Mike Tanner sees a dreamlike, disturbing "Faust."

     http://www.pop.com/


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This week's guests in Talk.com:

Poppy Z. Brite is one of the brightest (or darkest) stars in the
firmament of American horror fiction. She discusses her new novel,
"Exquisite Corpse," a "cannibalistic, serial-killer love story," Tuesday
in Head Space.

Dallas Fed analyst W. Michael Cox claims we've never been wealthier -
and says things are only going to get better. Hear Cox's stats Wednesday
in Wired Arena's live audio chat and decide whether to dismiss him as a
Pangloss - or start living large.

Join Madame Scamp, mistress of the netherworld, and Pop's Crack Psychic
Response Team for a Halloween seance in Pop Talk on Wednesday. For this
special chat, we'll summon anyone the audience requests, using Ouija
boards, magic eight balls, and even spirit possession. Hear the cries of
the damned and the moans of the undead as theremin and synthesizer
mingle. We'll be running our T1 straight into Hell!

Webheads have found a '90s alternative to collective bargaining:
becoming their own bosses. Join Andrew Leonard and host Brooke Shelby
Biggs in Thursday's PacketChat as they discuss the shifting political
economy of cyberspace.

Later on Thursday, in Electronic Frontiers, virtual-world creator Mark
Pesce and cyberculture trickster R. U. Sirius join host Jon Lebkowsky to
celebrate the cusp between darkness and light and the digital
manifestations of the ethereal. Come disembodied ... and bring your
whole party along!

In Friday's Brain Tennis: Are memes all they're cracked up to be? Hear
the experts spar - and get your own jabs in - as Barbrook and Lynch wrap
up their Brain Tennis debate with this live audio chat.

Check the Talk.com schedule to find detailed descriptions of these and
other events.

     http://www.talk.com/


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