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HotFlash 4.42 - Listen to the Ladies

HotFlash 4.42 for the week of 28 September 1997
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Hello and welcome to HotFlash, HotWired's weekly newsletter of events
and information.

Listen to the Ladies
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Synapse: Think the Web

Monday, join us for New Media Minds, a four-part lecture series with
RealAudio recordings and groovy video clips. Lecture number two - "A
Cyber-Feminine Perspective" - is moderated by Soledad O'Brien of The
Site, Denise Caruso of "The New York Times," and other women
cyber-leaders.

And Friday, Paul Boutin explores how the way-new technology business
model (selling product before it's invented) is right out of post-war
science fiction, and about as credible. We're out there selling
product before it's really even invented.

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


Beta Lounge: Hear the Web

This week, we'll be rubbing virtual elbows with the San Francisco Bay
Area art elite, as the Beta Lounge brings the noise for the Computer
and New Media Arts Festival (CoMA '97), a weekend of digi-schmooze at
the George Coates Performance Works Theater. More info at
http://www.fog.com and http://www.sfstation.com/coma97.

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


Member Pages

Our Geek of the Week, Brook Conner, first got on the Net back in 1989,
the heyday of freeware, Unix, and Emacs, when the wild hacker
roamed unfettered. An avowed Newton fan, Brook counts his wife as
his dream date ("aw shucks," he says) and a Maker's Mark Manhattan as
his poison AND his antidote. But who will be next? Will it be you?
Enter to be our esteemed Geek.

http://www.hotwired.com/members/


Dream Jobs: Work the Web

Thursday: You've heard the statistics, now read about a solution.
Women make up about 20 percent of the enrollment in college
engineering programs, and the number drops at the doctoral level. But
Carol Muller plans to make a dent in those stats. She needs a sys
admin to help her get up and running with her new upstart start-up
MentorNet, an email network linking female engineering students with
industry mentors.

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


Webmonkey: Build the Web

Your new site design looks great to you, but can your users make
heads or tails of it? Better do some user testing and find out.
Jeffrey Veen reveals that rounding up human guinea pigs is easier
than you think. Monday, in Tools.

XSSI is a part of Apache server software that lets you serve up all
kinds of tricks, including on-the-fly Web pages made of
pre-designated chunks. All without unduly taxing your server. Nadav
Savio presents an XSSI primer, Tuesday, in Source.

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


Web 101

Be cautious, but not afraid: Friday, Web 101 presents a guide to
navigating security and privacy issues on the Internet.

http://www.hotwired.com/web101/hf/


RGB Gallery: Clear Your Cache

We continue with our third installation: David Opp's 4YB-200. A
mazelike meditation on the computer interface, 4YB-200 is a crazy,
chaotic quilt of scrolling images, rhythmic sound loops, and
startling decoy alert boxes - an unpredictable parody of the medium
it reflects.

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


Live chat in Talk.com

Tuesday in Head Space: Join author Robert Sawyer in a live chat about
the chilling and thrilling aspects of the Human Genome Project, as
fictionalized in his new novel "Frameshift."

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


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Our latest editorial series, analyzing Netscape and its future in the
digital world, produced quite a buzz in Silicon Valley. Also, we've
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Now in Cocktail: Hailing from a time when men wore hats, the Dodgers
were in Brooklyn, and a joint was still your local bar, the Manhattan
held court when the cocktail was de rigueur. It also gave blue bloods a
chance to slug back a bit of whiskey.

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


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