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HotFlash 3.47
for the week of 1 November 1996
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Hello and welcome to HotFlash, the weekly newsletter of events and
information for HotWired and WIRED magazine. 


It's Almost Over
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Our impatience has been rewarded: this week the buffoons pack it in and
drag their sorry butts back home in shame. Not the winners, of course -
we'll be stuck with them for a while longer. The Netizen separates the
chaff from the chaff with the usual flair this week, providing analysis,
vitriol, laments, and sarcasms from Heilemann, Katz, and the rest of our
merry band.

     http://www.netizen.com/


"We've got government by the mob right now - that's what the media does
for us." Our suggestion: change the channel. "The Netizen on TV," 2 and
3 November on MSNBC: Post-political dialog for the digital nation.

     http://www.netizen.com/netizen/tv/96/44/index0a.html


Push-button Net access is here, says Jeff Veen, who played with WebTV's
new set-top box and found it easy, speedy, and sharp. He found something
missing, though: participation. Couch-based browsing, video plug-ins, 
the truth about Cookies, and hints on building a better back end - in
Webmonkey, a service station for the wired world. 

     http://www.webmonkey.com/


Here's a diabolical digestif that will curl your hair - and your tail.
Satan's Whiskers, in Cocktail.

     http://www.cocktailtime.com/


Work is work and play is play, but sometimes it's hard to tell them
apart. If you'd like to see what we do for fun, head for Test Patterns,
our members-only pet-project playground - featuring the Beta Lounge,
MiniMind, and KHOT, a streaming-audio jukebox starring HotWired's finest
musicians.

     http://www.testpatterns.com/


We're not the only ones who get confused. "I used to have a real job,"
says Origin's Andy Hollis. "Now I play games for a living." Sound good?
Origin, a games company in Austin, needs a flight simulations designer.
We've also found open jobs at Salon, NetNoir, Pacific Data Images, and
the Walker Art Center. In Dream Jobs, made possible by Dockers Khakis
(tm).

     http://www.dreamjobs.com/


AOL's reorg was hard to do. Would breaking it up be harder? Ned
Brainard, in Monday's Flux. 

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


Search sites are no longer content to be the waystations of the Web,
says Brooke Shelby Biggs - now they're positioning themselves as
destinations. Can they become the world's information sources, leaving
traditional news providers in the dust - and boosting ad revenue? Check
out Biggs on media, Garfinkel on tech, Leonard on culture, and
McChesney's HotSeat, in Packet - made possible by Oldsmobile.

     http://www.packet.com/


Love is blind, perhaps - but not deaf. If your bedmate's trying to get
some shut-eye (and you'd like your romance to have a future), Dr. Weil
has ways of stopping your snoring. Also this week: answers on aspirin,
E. coli, walking versus jogging, and laughing gas (aka nitrous oxide).
And for a quick fix, dip into the Doc Weil Database.

     http://www.drweil.com/


Will microbe-sized robots remake the future, or is nanotechnology just a
nerd's pipe dream? Brad Cox and Ed Regis debate this week in a new Brain
Tennis.

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


Pop keeps stellar company this week: Steve Buscemi discusses "Trees
Lounge" and tipping, Graham Parker sings and waxes acerbic, and Pop Talk
presents a RealAudio chat with Brenda Knight, Steve Silberman, and women
of the Beat movement. Also in Pop: John Alderman ponders personal
narratives online, Rob Levine praises a videogame soundtrack, Harmon
Leon infiltrates the Clinton and Dole campaigns (free eats!), and Mike
Tanner finds big thoughts, grand gestures, and copious bloodshed in Abel
Ferrara's "The Funeral."

     http://www.pop.com/


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This week's guests in Talk.com:

Monday in Pop Talk: The outlaw women of the Beat Generation - writers,
muses, artists - were the very embodiment of the Beat credo, though for
too long their voices were unheard syncopations against the pulse laid
down by the likes of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Ferlinghetti. Brenda Knight
recently collected their works in "Women of the Beat Generation" (Conari
Press, 1996), an anthology that samples the writings and experiences of
these extraordinary women. Join Knight, HotWired's Steve Silberman, and
Beat women Carolyn Cassady, ruth weiss, Anne Waldman, and Joanna McClure
for a live roundtable chat - broadcast in RealAudio - about women's
contributions to the Beat movement.

Later on Monday: Erstwhile "angry young man" Graham Parker's recent
"Acid Bubblegum" (Razor & Tie) - and an upcoming tribute album,
fittingly named "Piss & Vinegar" (Buy or Die) - should secure his status
as an elder statesman of anger. Parker will drop by our studio before
his San Francisco show to play a short acoustic set and chat with Pop
music editor Rob Levine, in Pop Talk.

Tuesday in Head Space: In the midst of a brilliant career as writer and
editor of some 40 works of science fiction, Jack Dann's curiosity about
Leonardo da Vinci - and his sense that fiction, at its best, seems to
spring from the reader's own memory - drove him, after six years of
research, to create "The Memory Cathedral" (Bantam, 1995). Join Dann and
host Martha Soukup as they discuss this epic historical novel and his
sci-fi works to come.

Wednesday in Wired Arena, hang out with sci-fi writer extraordinaire
Bruce Sterling, chat about his latest WIRED cover story, "Greetings from
Burning Man," and find out what went down on the playa - or share your
own thoughts about the event.

The Software Publishers Association recently filed suit against Sameer
Parekh's ISP, Community ConneXion (C2Net), alleging that C2Net users
were providing tools to defeat copy protection in the plaintiffs'
software - and including pointers to other sites that actually contained
pirated software. The SPA provided no examples, and they subsequently
withdrew their charges. Join Sameer and host Jon Lebkowsky in Electronic
Frontiers on Thursday to discuss the SPA's tactics, anonymity,
cryptography, and more.

On Thursday: Alan Kay's early work in graphic interface design and
personal computing led him to meet Steve Jobs in 1979. This fateful
pairing resulted in the first Apple Macintosh computer, which made
today's multimedia industry possible. Kay will speak in San Francisco
State's lecture series, "HyperShifts to Paradigm Links," about theories
of human-computer interactivity - and predicting the future by inventing
it. We'll broadcast his lecture in RealAudio with simultaneous chat,
where Kay will take your questions, in Talk.com.

Check the Talk.com schedule to find detailed descriptions of these and
other events.

     http://www.talk.com/


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