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HotFlash 3.49 - Wired News Launches

HotFlash 3.49
for the week of 15 November 1996
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Hello and welcome to HotFlash, the weekly newsletter of events and
information for HotWired and WIRED magazine. 


Wired News Launches
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On Monday 18 November, we're launching wired.com, home of Wired News -
featuring inside stories and instant news about the people, companies,
and technologies driving the Digital Revolution. Our around-the-clock
feed of original stories will chronicle the ways the digital world is
changing business, politics, and culture. We'd like our members to come
check it out - and let us know what you think.

     http://www.wired.com/


This Wednesday, Simson Garfinkel calls ActiveX technology the single
greatest threat to the Web's future. But besides its security problems -
and the possibility that Microsoft will swallow the Net whole - Simson
sees a more ominous prospect: a threat to US national security. Check
out Garfinkel on technology, Biggs on media, Leonard on culture, and
McChesney's HotSeat, in Packet - made possible by Oldsmobile.

     http://www.packet.com/


Children that we are, we do our best to blur the boundary between work
and play. To see the result, visit Test Patterns, our members-only geek
playpen - featuring MiniMind, KHOT, and the remarkable Beta Lounge.

     http://www.testpatterns.com/


Humanity has sought the elixir of youth since time began (or shortly
thereafter). Cocktail may have found it - in a blend of gin, orange
juice, anise, and grenadine: the Monkey Gland.

     http://www.cocktailtime.com/


Some aren't afraid to plunge into the future. We've found an open job
for a senior editor at "Fast Company," a magazine of futuro-finance
writing for entreprenerds that elevates ecstatic acceleration into a
creed. We've also found open positions at UC San Francisco, Denver
Investment Advisors, Electric Minds, and NBC Interactive. In Dream Jobs,
made possible by Dockers Khakis(tm).

     http://www.dreamjobs.com/


"Why aren't Web browsers smart enough to download only the stuff they
can deal with?" asks Jeff Veen this week in Webmonkey. Learn about HTTP
headers and content filters, the plethora of plug-ins, how links really
work, and the skinny on "referer logs" - in Webmonkey, a service station
for the wired world.

     http://www.webmonkey.com/


Ned Brainard notes upbeat layoffs, downhearted spinoffs, and improvised
flip-offs at the big online services. In Monday's Flux. 

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


Super-8 is film at its rawest. This week in Pop, Mike Tanner haunts a
midnight showcase of 8-mm films, ranging from the jarringly respectable
to the majorly horny. Also in Pop this week: Harmon Leon explains what
makes "Millennium" tick, John Alderman writes on the rise of regional
book fairs, Rob Levine reviews a compelling compilation of abstract hip
hop, and Ian Christe witnesses the sinking of the "Titanic" on CD-ROM.

     http://www.pop.com/


Whether you're still steamed about the political travesty we've just
experienced or merely disgusted with mainstream punditry, you can get
quick relief - courtesy of Heilemann, Katz, and company - in The
Netizen.

     http://www.netizen.com/


The views of a certain recent presidential aspirant notwithstanding,
tobacco - in the form of cigarettes - is the most addictive drug on
earth. This week Dr. Weil invites you to join the Great American
Smokeout, and offers tips to help you quit. Also this week: answers on
vertigo, decaf, zinc, and the winter blues. And for a quick info fix,
jack into the Doc Weil Database.

     http://www.drweil.com/


Meanwhile, our political system is clearly on crack - but what do we do?
Paul Taylor believes campaign reform should focus on television, giving
candidates free air time and regulating discourse. John Bonafaz wants to
eliminate private campaign money altogether. Follow their debate this
week, in Brain Tennis.

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


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This week's guests in Talk.com:

Special Electronic Frontiers forum on Monday: Jerry Berman, current
director of the CDT and past coordinator of the EFF's lobbying efforts,
joins host Jon Lebkowsky to discuss the current legislative environment
and its impact on future Internet developments - a must for wired
activists everywhere!

Tuesday in Pop Talk: Interactive media artist Lynn Hershman Leeson
explores the confluence of technology, culture, and personal identity.
Her latest project is "Clicking In: Hot Links to a Digital Culture" (Bay
Press, 1996). Join Leeson and Pop's John Alderman for a live audio chat
about artistic and digital expression.

In Tuesday's Head Space: After abandoning his dream of becoming the next
great pirate novelist, Walter Jon Williams turned to sci-fi and wrote a
number of highly acclaimed books. He'll talk about his latest, the urban
fantasy romp "City on Fire," with host Martha Soukup.

Wednesday in Pop Talk: They Might Be Giants continue to make music that
expresses their endless energy and ingenuity. Their new album, "Factory
Showroom" (Elektra), lives up to the duo's reputation for jumpy pop
music with nutty lyrics. Join the Giants for a live audio chat with
Pop's Michael Small, who reviewed the band's first demo tape in "People"
magazine back in those early "Dial-A-Song" days.

In Thursday's PacketChat: Could the Web be the greatest vehicle for peer
pressure ever invented? Host Brooke Shelby Biggs and Packet culture
columnist Andrew Leonard may convince you.

Thursday in Electronic Frontiers forum: Join Web consultant Matthew
Cutler of net.Genesis and the Webmasters Guild with host Jon Lebkowsky
as we discuss the social and cultural ramifications of networked
technologies and the Web's latest growth patterns.

Friday: Wrapping up the SFSU lecture series "HyperLinks to Paradigm
Shifts" is performance artist Laurie Anderson. Join us for a RealAudio
broadcast of her lecture and simultaneous chat where she'll take
questions from the audience in Talk.com.

Check out Talk.com to get detailed descriptions of these and other
events.

     http://www.talk.com/


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