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HotFlash 3.50 - Wired News, Week Two

HotFlash 3.50
for the week of 22 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, Week Two
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If you missed the first week of Wired News, you missed stories on the
lower-caste lives of Microsoft temps, @Home's IPO plans, a fast, cheap
Net access technology (and why you can't have it), and much more. Each
day, Wired News features inside stories and instant news about the
people, companies, and technologies driving the Digital Revolution. Our
around-the-clock feed of original stories chronicles 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/


All the hand-waving, press releases, and keynote addresses at Comdex
seemed to add up to one thing, says Jeff Veen: push, push, push, push,
push. Get the latest on Netscape's and Microsoft's push-media plans,
more tricks with tables, and a Thanksgiving suggestion: unplug and chow
down. In Webmonkey, a service station for the wired world.

     http://www.webmonkey.com/


Michael Schrage likes profit as much as the next guy - but fears that
market forces won't suffice to drive Web innovation forward at full
tilt. An alternative driver: The Guggenheim Project, a competition
challenging multimedia architects to redefine "museum" on the Web. Check
out Schrage on markets, Garfinkel on technology, Leonard on culture, and
McChesney's HotSeat, in Packet - made possible by Oldsmobile.

     http://www.packet.com/


Microsoft's whining over Net losses has the industry beFUDdled - by
design, says Ned Brainard. In Monday's Flux. 

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


What influence should private money have on public elections? Paul
Taylor and John Bonafaz wrap up their debate on soft money, free media,
and hard reality: campaign finance reform, in Brain Tennis.

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


When Jon Katz picks a fight, he doesn't fool around. His call for a
boycott of the censorious Wal-Mart chain generated a torrent of email
and more Threads than a textile plant. Sort through the invective - and
put your two cents into the till - in The Netizen.

     http://www.netizen.com/


You like your family, and you can't stand them. During the holidays,
when nothing seems to go right, we find comfort in tradition: The Old
Fashioned, in Cocktail.

     http://www.cocktailtime.com/


Seared fois gras with brandied cranberries, sesame-encrusted ahi, kiwi
sorbet, and a glass of fine port: Thanksgiving back home was never like
this! Each Friday, Fillet brings our members a good meal, a fine wine,
or a chat with a star chef. In Test Patterns - also featuring MiniMind,
KHOT, and the amazing Beta Lounge.

     http://www.testpatterns.com/


Ben & Jerry's is famous for two things: social conscience and epicurean
excess. If traveling and sampling chocolate are high on your "likes"
list, perhaps you should be their new commodities specialist - provided
you can handle three pints of free ice cream a day. We've also found
open positions at Palladium Interactive, Agency.com, and Diba Inc. In
Dream Jobs, made possible by Dockers Khakis (tm).

     http://www.dreamjobs.com/


After eating a mountain of turkey - and disposing of other culinary
landforms along the way - holiday celebrants tend to slip into a drowsy
state verging on comatose. Is it just the blood draining from the brain
toward the equator, or is turkey-based L-tryptophan singing them an
amino-acid lullabye? Dr. Weil has answers this week on post-gobbler
fatigue syndrome, dandruff, fluoridated water, and the scourge of
indigestion. And for quick health info, tap into the Doc Weil Database.

     http://www.drweil.com/


Artist Laurel Katz's mixed-media installations, depicting scenes (both
dismal and absurd) from our gadget-saturated era, are variations on a
theme: our benighted faith that technology will make life better. See
her homages to botched home improvement next Thursday in Pop's Gallery.
Also in Pop this week: Harmon Leon surfs the Sci-Fi Channel, John
Alderman reviews a flawed, Pynchonian "Zeitgeist," Rob Levine outlines
how bands can become "big on the Internet," and Mike Tanner brushes up
on the films of Vittorio De Sica.

     http://www.pop.com/


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This week's guests in Talk.com:

Tuesday in Head Space: Join sci-fi/fantasy writer Karen Joy Fowler as
she discusses her long-awaited second novel, "The Sweetheart Season"
(Holt, 1996).

For a more detailed description of this event and others, go to:

     http://www.talk.com/


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