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HotFlash 3.51

HotFlash 3.51
for the week of 29 November 1996
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Hello and welcome to HotFlash, the weekly newsletter of events and
information for HotWired and WIRED magazine. 


Hard-Hitting Easy Reading
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In week three of our newly launched Wired News program, we continue to
pound both pavement and keyboard. Hitting each beat in the wired world -
from Usenet to Netcom, from chipmakers to dealbreakers - in the realms
of politics, culture, business, and technology, we'll keep watch and
offer original reports on the digital world daily.

     http://www.wired.com/


It's been a busy week in the browser world. Jeff Veen catches you up on
the new Java VM from Microsoft, Internet Explorer for your palmtop,
Netscape's OS/2 browser beta, and more. Plus: the future of plug-ins,
and array objects in JavaScript. In Webmonkey, a service station for the
wired world.

     http://www.webmonkey.com/


If there's one thing more irritating than politics as usual, it's
watching the mainstream press kiss up to the culprits. Kiss the smarm
goodbye, in The Netizen.

     http://www.netizen.com/


Thanks to television, we know advertisers are willing to annoy us (and
risk alienating us) to keep from being ignored. Webvertisers are just as
desperate for attention, notes Brooke Shelby Biggs - just look at the
looping GIFs and tickertapes cluttering up our screens. Is a backlash in
the offing? Check out Biggs on media, Garfinkel on technology, Leonard
on culture, and McChesney's HotSeat, in Packet - made possible by
Oldsmobile.

     http://www.packet.com/


The Aviation is a ticket back to a time when every seat was first-class
and every flight felt like a Caribbean cruise. A classic concoction, in
Cocktail.

     http://www.cocktailtime.com/


Working at the base of a volcano is a sure cure for on-the-job boredom -
not to mention Maui's other charms. If you'd like living in an island
paradise with a supercomputer at your beck and call, Synchromic is
looking for animators - and we've also found open positions at Araneum,
NavTech, Human Rights Watch, and PBS Online. In Dream Jobs, made
possible by Dockers Khakis (tm).

     http://www.dreamjobs.com/


There's no quick fix for a hickey - unless you can make an ice pack part
of your good time - but Dr. Weil does have a prescription for
embarrassment: a turtleneck. The doc also has answers this week on the
need (or not) to douche, strategies for passing drug tests, MSG
sensitivity, and how acupuncture can help your pet deal with pain. And
for a rapid response, query the Doc Weil Database.

     http://www.drweil.com/


We've got it backwards, says James Bailey: Instead of making computers
emulate the sequences of human thought, we need to remake our minds in
their image. Not on your life, responds Bill McKibben. Alien minds - a
new debate, in Brain Tennis.

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


Breakbeats, multimedia mixology, straight-up funk: Immerse yourself in
the Beta Lounge. In Test Patterns - also featuring MiniMind, KHOT, and
Fillet.

     http://www.testpatterns.com/


The bestselling success of "Griffin & Sabine" surprised a lot of people
- not least its author, Nick Bantock. This Tuesday in Pop, Carl Steadman
talks with Bantock about fame, narrative, electronic media, and "The
Venetian's Wife," his newest illustrated novel. Also in Pop this week:
Harmon Leon previews "The Lunchlady Files," Rob Levine weighs the
importance of ambience at the Recombinant festival, Carlo McCormick
attends a "philosophical rave" in the Nevada desert, and Mike Tanner
reviews a cinematic hybrid: "Star Trek: First Contact."

     http://www.pop.com/


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This week's guests in Talk.com:

Tuesday in Head Space: Pat Murphy's new novel, "Nadya: The Wolf
Chronicles" (Tor, 1996), is a shape-shifting fantasy that follows the
relationship of two young women - one of whom is also a wolf - on the
American frontier. Join Pat and host Martha Soukup to chat about
identity, disguise, sex, and running with the werewolves.

In Wired Talk on Thursday: Hunter Madsen, HotWired's vice president of
commercial development, says it's high time to rethink the state of Web
advertising, laying those tired banners to rest in favor of newer
standards of branding. Join us to discuss the next step in the evolution
of online ads: experience.

In Thursday's PacketChat: Still master of your domain? Andrew Leonard
muses that self-love is what the Net is really all about, and touts it
as the greatest facilitator of masturbation in human history.

Thursday in Electronic Frontiers: Culture critic Mark Dery discusses his
latest writings on fin-de-millennium America, a culture buffeted by
megatrends, mass manias, solitary obsessions, and subcultural crazes.

Friday in Pop Talk: Join the East End experimental electronic music duo
Spring Heel Jack for a live audio chat with Rob Levine about their new
album, "68 Million Shades ..." - and hear some mind-altering sound,
high-velocity beats, and previously unreleased tracks.

For more detailed descriptions of these and other events, go to:

     http://www.talk.com/


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