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HotFlash 4.32 - Looking for Something?

HotFlash 4.32
for the week of 18 July 1997
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Hello and welcome to HotFlash, HotWired's weekly newsletter of events
and information.


Looking for Something?
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Webmonkey: Build the Web

Like a toddler's room, the Internet's a jumbled mess that gets messier
all the time. But while Junior's plastic Batmobile may be permanently
MIA, the Don Ho Web site you neglected to bookmark isn't necessarily a
lost cause. This Friday, Web 101 shows you how to search smart, with a
feature-by-feature tutorial on the use and abuse of search engines.
Also: Jeffrey Veen looks at Microsoft's newest IE 4.0 preview release,
while Matt Stevens explains how your network's bridges and routers work
- in this week's Webmonkey.

     http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/


Net Surf: Surf the Web

Cash never goes out of style, says Joey Anuff, and the rebirthing of
corporate cool shows an undiminished (if twisted) vitality. Its latest
avatar: The Forbes Corporate Warrior. A game that's "just like life!" -
in Net Surf.

     http://www.hotwired.com/netsurf/


Synapse: Think the Web

CNN was once a brilliant counterpoint to the stupidity of network news,
declares Jon Katz, but its pathbreaking days ended the day it began
aping the same networks it had supplanted. Get Katz on the decline of
CNN, Garfinkel on the Net's emerging culture of surveillance, Silberman
on the Reed-Solomon codes, Biggs on libertarianism ("the hep ideology of
the prepubescent Net"), and a HotSeat debate on Clinton's plan to give
our schools a high-tech resurrection - all in this week's Synapse, made
possible by Intrigue.

     http://www.hotwired.com/synapse/


Dream Jobs: Work the Web

Surrealist screensavers, interactive trivia games - Berkeley Systems has
always made paradigm shifts their specialty. Now they're in the market
for a new director - someone with the vision to peek around the next
corner. We've also found a position as legislative assistant/sysadmin to
Net-friendly US Congressman Rick White - in this week's Dream Jobs, made
possible by Dockers Khakis (tm). And check out our Greener Grass List,
an index of 100 companies we'd love working for.

     http://www.hotwired.com/dreamjobs/


Beta Lounge: Hear the Web

On Thursday, the voltage goes up as the beats rain down: The Network
Syndicate DJs present funky jump-up drum and bass from outer space -
plus original unreleased dubplates - in the person of DJ Sifu of the
a.r.m. crew. And while U wait, remix your head with sonic scenes from
Detroit Techno Godfather Stacey Pullen, Derrick May, Joe Rice, and the
all-star cast of DJs from the HotWired 4.0 launch party.

     http://www.betalounge.com/


RGB Gallery: Clear Your Cache

antirom's interactive Shockwave "engines" create a boundless space that
demands interaction, turning the monitor into an expansive electronic
palette. Their digital toys ("born out of frustration with the poverty
of digital publishing") will reshape your view of what Web multimedia
can be.

     http://www.hotwired.com/rgb/


Live chat in Talk.com

Tuesday in Head Space: Cyberpunk author Rudy Rucker's weird, aggressive
science fiction uses transrealist plots to explain abstruse points in
mathematics, information theory, and computer science. Join him for a
live chat about robot personalities and sci-fi as educational tool.

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


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For those determined to drink what they really like, not what popularity
dictates, here's a Campari concoction you won't have to learn to enjoy:
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     http://www.hotwired.com/jobs/


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