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Hotflash 4.20: Hand Over Your Modem

HotFlash 4.20 
for the week of 25 April 1997
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Hello and welcome to HotFlash, the weekly newsletter of events and
information for HotWired and WIRED magazine.


Hand Over Your Modem 
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It's 2 May 2001, and your Internet service provider wants your monthly
dialup fee. If you need details on QwikScrub obscenity-deleting
software, the SmileyClipper, or what to do when the authorities come to
confiscate your modem, check in with Mark Frauenfelder this Thursday,
when he delivers a hypothetical invoice from the future. Get
Frauenfelder on culture, Boutin on tech, Schrage on markets, and
McChesney's HotSeat - in Packet, made possible by Oldsmobile.

     http://www.packet.com/hf/


Can you imagine a time before <background>, <font>, and <blink>? On
Monday, Jeffrey Veen retraces our clicks through the history of HTML and
prepares us for the arrival of HTML 4 (code name, "Cougar"). Read about
our linguistic forefathers, learn to count (in binary, hexidecimal, and
octal numbers), and find out how to get rid of the "pops" and "clicks"
called artifacts in your audio files - all this week in Webmonkey, a
service station for the wired world.

     http://www.webmonkey.com/hf/


Get high-voltage breakbeats streamed straight to your brain - live audio
and video from the masters of the mix at the Beta Lounge.

     http://www.betalounge.com/betalounge/hf/


As CNET burns through the moolah far from prying eyes, that "major media
partner" sounds a lot like a bailout. Ned Brainard, in Monday's Flux.

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


Kermit the Froggy goes a courtin': Jim Henson Interactive, a division of
the famed Muppet production company, is looking for a technical
director. We've also found positions at Thinking Tools and the Wall
Street Journal Interactive Edition - in this week's Dream Jobs, made
possible by Dockers Khakis (tm).

     http://www.dreamjobs.com/hf/


In the gripping conclusion to his five-part series on the new face of
censorship, Jon Katz offers concrete proposals for what each of us can
do to fight for freedom and morals simultaneously. Plus, John Heilemann's
Impolitic, and other dispatches from the frontier where technology,
politics, and the personal meet. This week, in The Netizen.

     http://www.netizen.com/hf/


This week, Net Surf poses a challenge. Your goal: to gain entrance to
the "300 Club." Hints: a very low latitude, a news periodical, and a hot
tub. If you succeed, your efforts may be rewarded with unconditional
adoration - and, of course, everyone will be a winner.

     http://www.hotwired.com/surf/hf/


Ready for a taste of the bad old days? This week, we resurrect a whiskey
drink from the Prohibition era ... and make it with finer ingredients
than those of our bootlegging ancestors. The Scofflaw, in Cocktail.

     http://www.cocktailtime.com/hf/


You are now feeling 99 percent better. Why? It's the final week of "8 Weeks to
a Healthy America." In addition to helping you set a realistic plan for
your healthy future, Dr. Weil answers your questions about chronic
fatigue syndrome, cancer-killing sharks, Nicorette, the HIV risks of
oral sex, and of course ... flatulence. But if that's not enough for you,
don't miss your chance to celebrate with fellow 8-weekers on Friday, in
DocTalk Live.

     http://www.drweil.com/hf/


Each day, throughout the day, Wired News brings you a cutting-edge
chronicle of the Digital Revolution, with original reports on business,
technology, culture, and politics. Wired News is everything you need to
know to stay on top of the digital world. Come check it out.

     http://www.wired.com/news/hf/


What does the HotWired staff do after hours? This week in Fillet, the
search for NY-style pizza in San Francisco.

     http://www.testpatterns.com/testpatterns/fillet/hf/


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This week's guests in Talk.com:

Sunday in the Beta Lounge: Mind-bending sounds and global beats from the
masters of the mix.

Monday in Electronic Frontiers: Cybrarian Michel Bauwens continues to
shape the relationships between the technosphere and the business
sector, while considering the next level: the metaphysical. Confused?
Michel Bauwens joins host Jon Lebkowsky for an intro to the brave new
world of the cybrarian.

Tuesday in Head Space: The scope of Geoffrey A. Landis' fiction is as
boundless and diverse as the world of his daily grind: He's a NASA
scientist. Join Geoff and host Martha Soukup to discuss SF/fantasy, as
well as the Mars Pathfinder, solar cells, the manufacture of rocket fuel
on Mars, and a NASA workshop on faster-than-light travel.

Friday in DocTalk Live:  Tune in for a final hurrah with ol' Doc Weil
and 8-Weekers around the country, as we review the challenges and
triumphs of the past eight weeks. Soy foods, breathing meditations,
tonic herbs, vitamin C and mixed carotenes, saunas, flowers, and
walking, walking, walking. Let's hear about your 8 Week experience and
your plans for week nine. Call us at (800) 420 6562.

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

     http://www.talk.com/hf/


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     http://www.hotwired.com/jobs/


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