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HotFlash 4.43 - Surviving the Unabomber

HotFlash 4.43 for the week of 5 October 1997
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Hello and welcome to HotFlash, HotWired's weekly newsletter of events and information.

Surviving the Unabomber
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Synapse: Think the Web

Wednesday, HotSeat features David Gelernter, the Yale computer-science professor who was maimed by a mail bomb sent by the Unabomber. He discusses the Unabomber case, modern morality in the media, and his new book, "Drawing Life."

And Friday, Biggs tells us how Microsoft's Sidewalk lost a battle it should have won, and how newspapers now have a chance to establish themselves in the Web market without the shadow of Bill Gates looming quite so large.

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


Web 101:

If you've ever wondered why using the Web is so slow, Web 101 introduces the concept of bandwidth, the amount of electronic data that can flow through the Internet pipes, across the phone lines, and into your computer. Aaron Meyers examines the bandwidth bottom line, Friday in Web 101.

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


Webmonkey: Build the Web

The Unix text-editing program called vi just might be the secret to anywhere, anytime text-editing and site management. Lisa Schmeiser continues her vi series with advanced tricks for the mobile webmonkey. Tuesday, in Tools.

You say you're flabbergasted that nobody has started a newsgroup about the parallels between Star Trek and Greek mythology? Learn the ins and outs of starting your own newsgroup, Thursday in Geek Talk.

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


Beta Lounge: Hear the Web

Bay Area hip hop represents! DJ Quest, DJ Disk, and MC Eddie K ring in a new era of Beta beat bidness. Check the DJ Cam for the debut of the new Network Syndicate Worldwide HQ ...

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


Dream Jobs: Work the Web

Last July, World Championship Wrestling had a vision that if they built a Web site, wrestling addicts would come. And come they did. For skeptics who suppose the Web doesn't attract many wrestling aficionados, WCW's page clocks an average of 3 million impressions per month. But now they need a tech wizard to help them meet the demands of those fans.

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


Live chat in Talk.com

Tuesday in Head Space: Join award-winning author Allen Steele as we chat about his radical-hard SF tendencies, his new novel "A King of Infinite Space," and his story that just landed on the cover of the October/November issue of "Asimov's."

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


Member Pages:

Hailing from Ontario and continuing to compulsively push her glasses up her nose two years after she started wearing contact lenses, Shelly Lambe is our Geek of the Week. What makes Shelly a geek? She has five PCs at home, her 5-year-old son has his own Internet account, and her house is wired with CAT-5. Can you compete?
Enter to be Geek of the Week.

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


Net Surf: Surf the Web

Monday, Joey Anuff vamps on Bill Gates' recent IE 4 launch-event topic of the "Web lifestyle," along with the latest press coverage of how technology is shaping the world.

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


RGB Gallery: Clear Your Cache

We continue with our third installation, David Opp's 4YB-200, a labyrinthine meditation on the computer interface. Weave your way through Opp's maze of frames, scrolling pages, and JavaScript alerts, and you just might find secret messages within his code and Macintosh iconography.

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


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Read about how technology is affecting your life in the areas of business, politics, and culture, written from the Wired perspective. Our latest editorial series, analyzing Netscape and its future in the digital world, produced quite a buzz in Silicon Valley. Also, we've added a General News area with a stock-market brief, and now feature our columnists on the front door in "WIRED View."

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Why load up on unleaded when you can strap on a rocket booster and head for the stars? The Mauri, a Paul Harrington original, is the silver-gleaming speed machine of cocktails - cool, volatile, but far from breakneck. Come take a ride:

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


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