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HotFlash 3.38
for the week of 30 August 1996
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Hello and welcome to HotFlash, the weekly newsletter of events and
information for HotWired and WIRED magazine.

Are We Still Cool Yet?
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Let's put it this way: Either you vote for us, or we put John Tesh in
charge of programming.

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

Swoon's source would make a sailor blush and a search engine stammer.
Ned Brainard's view on the Conde Nastiness, in Monday's Flux.

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

The "stealth Martini" is a pink drink with a covert kick. The
Cosmopolitan, in Cocktail.

     http://www.cocktail.com/

If the browser wars bore you, just pretend the big guys don't exist.
Jeffrey Veen finds we'd do fine without them. In Webmonkey, a service
station for the wired world.

     http://www.webmonkey.com/

The Christian Web proves there is no "we" in cyberspace, says Andrew
Leonard - meanwhile, Michael Schrage foresees an explosion of intranet
ads, while Simson Garfinkel wants to blow up his emailbox.

     http://www.packet.com/

We're in Linz, Austria this week at the Ars Electronica Festival,
Europe's liveliest celebration of the wired arts, with fresh audio
reports, interviews, and live performances each day - including the
Brain Opera, Just Merit, EBN, and a parade of cranes.

     http://www.hotwired.com/audiolab/ars/

Each weekday we bring you a new Dream Job. This week: Access Systems
Research, Sage Solutions, CANOE, and Renaissance.

     http://www.dreamjobs.com/

Find out who's juiced and who's sluiced. The Tired/Wired 100, in Wired
Online.

     http://www.wired.com/

Is patriarchy embedded in today's technologies, or does it just surround
them like a barbed-wire fence? Pamela McCorduck and Karen Coyle on
women, computers, and culture, in Brain Tennis.

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

You asked how to enhance your sex drive - well, one of you did - and
this week Dr. Weil has your answer. The doc also holds forth on lupus,
fish-oil supplements, sleepless nights, and natural ways to beat the
bottle, and presents his Top Ten Q&As to boot.

     http://www.drweil.com/

Laugh, cry, complain, concur, fume, or grin - you can read Heilemann,
Katz, Meeks, and other provocateurs, this week and every week, in The
Netizen.

     http://www.netizen.com/

This Tuesday in Pop: Harmon Leon's rentable TeeVee show picks.
Wednesday: Ian Christe gets a taste of the multi-user gaming future.
Thursday: Brian Eno's diary brings out the voyeur in John Alderman. And
on Friday: Jonny Quest is back - this time, he takes on cyberspace.

     http://www.pop.com/

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This Week's Guests in Club Wired:

Gwyneth Jones's sexy, disturbing novels have made her one of the UK's
most widely read sci-fi authors, with wild plots of alien-human
relations that dissect and blur gender roles all at once. Join Jones in
Head Space to discuss her latest novel, and her next.

Ever tried sifting through 200,000 emails to find a particular message?
God forbid! Even the new version of Eudora Pro still sticks with the
same stupid, tired, obsolete metaphor - the mailbox. Sort through
tomorrow's inbox with Packet's technology columnist Simson Garfinkel and
PacketChat host Janelle Brown.

The typical netizen is "libertarian, opinionated, and generally devoted
to the free flow of information." Right? Wrong - just look at outfits
like the Christian Web. Packet's culture columnist Andrew Leonard argues
that the Web is about virtual villages, not a borderless global
community. Join him and host Janelle Brown, in PacketChat.

Learn the politics behind the CDA, the latest on the court challenge,
trends in censorship and communications control, and more: Join host Jon
Lebkowsky in the Electronic Frontiers forum for the third monthly EF
panel discussion.

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

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

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For Our BellSouth.net Users
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We've just cooked up an agreement with BellSouth to ease your entry into
the sprawl of the Web: Look for our HotBot search link when you hit
BellSouth.net's homepage. You might also try out BellSouth's tour of the
Web, designed by our own Net Surf Central producer, June Cohen.

Forget Your Password?
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We know, we know. You have 18 slightly different usernames and
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.

On the Web, the address for HotWired is: http://www.hotwired.com/

Subscribe to WIRED magazine today!

     http://www.hotwired.com/wired/

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