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HotFlash 3.37
for the week of 23 August 1996
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Hello and welcome to HotFlash, the weekly newsletter of events and
information for HotWired and WIRED magazine.


Shameless, but Still Cool
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Is it dignified to mention that HotWired's been nominated for "Still
Cool Site of the Year"? No. Is it a breach of etiquette to ask for your
vote? Maybe. Will we ask anyway? You bet.

     http://cool.infi.net/vote.html


John Heilemann, Brock N. Meeks, and other Netizen columnists will be
reporting directly from the Democratic Convention in Chicago this week.
Read all about it, in The Netizen.

     http://www.netizen.com/


Find out where the Web is headed: Packet provides daily analysis and
commentary on emerging technologies, new markets, and digital culture.

     http://www.packet.com/


Check out the newest browsers from Netscape and Microsoft, learn the
latest techniques from Web experts, and dig into the Browser Kit,
Plug-in Pack, and HTML Teaching Tool. In Webmonkey, a service station
for the wired world.

     http://www.webmonkey.com/


On the way to second place, Netscape apes Apple. Ned Brainard, in
Monday's Flux.

     http://www.hotwired.com/flux/


James Bond sipped this one in the cafes of Paris - the Americano, in
Cocktail.

     http://www.cocktailtime.com/


Every weekday we bring you a new Dream Job. This week: Discovery Channel
Online, DigitalThink, Hoover's Inc., Mother Jones, and Earthlink
Networks.

     http://www.dreamjobs.com/


Find out who's zapping and who's napping. The Tired/Wired 100, this week
in Wired Online.

     http://www.wired.com/


Are women pushed out of tech fields by cultural forces, or is existing
technology male-centric by nature? Pamela McCorduck and Karen Coyle
debate, in a new Brain Tennis.

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


HotBot is indexing the entire Web. We ran some searches this week to
see how the president is perceived:
Sites where both "President Clinton" and "diplomatic initiatives"
appear: 156
Sites where both "President Clinton" and "moral leadership" appear: 322
Sites where both "President Clinton" and "McDonald's" appear: 4,010

     http://www.hotbot.com/


There are answers this week in Ask Dr. Weil. Monday: What's the skinny
on skin cancer? Tuesday: The best medicine for swimmer's ear? Wednesday:
Do hamburgers cause premature menstruation? Thursday: First aid for
stingray stings? For the weekend: Snap, crackle, poppers - everything
you need to know about amyl nitrite. And check out the new daily poll at
the bottom of the Q & A page.

     http://www.drweil.com/


On Wednesday, Pop reviews Jane Siberry and Robyn Hitchcock, while Rob
Levine stings Pearl Jam - "incredibly popular for all the wrong
reasons." On Thursday: Movies about independent women always end the
same - somebody has to die. On Friday in Gallery: Scott Williams makes
stenciling provocative by spraying images onto surprising surfaces.

     http://www.pop.com/


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This Week's Guests in Club Wired:

Rick Maechling, one of the scientists at Stanford who analyzed the
meteorite from Mars, will be joining us in Wired Arena on Tuesday. It's
your chance to hear exactly what they found and to decide for yourself
what the chances of an invasion are.

Another first in Wednesday's WiredSide Chat: Live from the Democratic
National Convention, John Heilemann will take a break from the ballyhoo
to answer your questions and chat about the antics and events happening
at the four-day party for the Prez.

Later on Wednesday, Simson Garfinkel, technology columnist for Packet,
will join host Janelle Brown in PacketChat to talk cable modems: Sure,
they're fast, but are they secure?

Can Web activism really free Tibet or is it simply preaching to the
already converted? Find out with Andrew Leonard, Packet's technoculture
columnist, and Janelle Brown in Thursday's PacketChat.

Thursday in Electronic Frontiers: Marilyn Davis developed eVote -
software that enables the members of an email list to poll themselves
while emulating the decision-making processes used by face-to-face
groups. She joins host Jon Lebkowsky to discuss how the beta test is
going with the Internet Action Group, which is using eVote to organize
cyber rights demonstrations.

Check the Club Wired schedule for detailed descriptions of these and
other events.

     http://www.hotwired.com/club/


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passwords, and you just can't keep track. Don't let an eight-digit
password keep you from posting to Threads. If you've forgotten yours,
all you have to do is (1) reply to this message; (2) change the subject
line to read PASSWORD (that's important); and (3) write us a
one-sentence note with your name, email address, and membername (if you
remember it). It's that easy.


Visualize Liking Your Job
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Jobs at HotWired, WIRED, HardWired, or Wired Online? Point your Web
browser to:

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


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HotFlash now boasts 136,683 subscribers. If this is your first issue,
welcome! There are now 411,144 members of the HotWired community.

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This week's HotFlash is brought to you by:

Webrunner II: The Forbidden Code
Online Contest Introduces New Game from Wizards of the Coast

To celebrate the release of Proteus (TM), the first expansion set for
Netrunner (R), Wizards of the Coast, Inc., presents Webrunner (TM) II:
The Forbidden Code, an innovative online contest that runs August 16 to
September 27. Players assume the role of a security chief at Encoder,
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     http://www.wizards.com/Netrunner/Webrunner_II/


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