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HotFlash 3.39
for the week of 6 September 1996
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Hello and welcome to HotFlash, the weekly newsletter of events and
information for HotWired and WIRED magazine.


Suckers and Biters
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Did c|net base its business model on the tick, the leech, or the noble
mosquito? Ned Brainard parses parasites, in Monday's Flux.

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


Cocktail, on the other hand, prefers smooches to stings. The Bee's Kiss,
cool and comforting, is the perfect remedy for fancied pathos.

     http://www.cocktailtime.com/


It's the fourth and final week - and we're still not tired! The
Tired/Wired 100, in Wired Online.

     http://www.wired.com/tiredwired100/


Scared of Java? Plug your computer back in and come out of the fetal
position - we've found that living with insecurity isn't so bad.
Applets, plug-ins, and floating frames, in Webmonkey, a service station
for the wired world.

     http://www.webmonkey.com/


Packet got some shots of MAE West you won't see anywhere else. One of
the Net's biggest synapses, blasting packets at nearly 2.6 gigs per
second, MAE West has never granted access to any news org. Follow Simson
Garfinkel inside - and check out Michael Schrage, Andrew Leonard, and
John McChesney - this week in Packet.

     http://www.packet.com/


Each weekday we've brought you a new Dream Job - and now we bring you
our new look. Dream Jobs launches a new design this week, and features
open jobs at SGI, the Chicago Tribune, Boss Film, the Sierra Club, and
O'Reilly and Associates.

     http://www.dreamjobs.com/


The Well, AOL, Echo - are online communities laboratories for social
harmony and tolerance or barren biospheres for bores and blowhards? Echo
founder Stacy Horn and Suck's executive editor Ana Marie Cox have it out
this week in Brain Tennis.

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


The Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart joins HotWired's Steve Silberman in Pop
Talk this Wednesday - check the Club Wired listings below for details.

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


It's not what you learn - it's where you learn it. The Rough Surf shows
you how to get smart in style, with America's top 10 college towns.

     http://www.hotwired.com/roughsurf/


This week Dr. Weil gets into a "he said, she said." Topic: chlamydia.
Also this week: the scoop on sugar, lowering cholesterol, beating back
hepatitis B, and the pros and cons of drinking red wine.

     http://www.drweil.com/


Why is the environment the untouchable hot button of American politics?
Learn the answer to this and other conundrums, this week in The Netizen.

     http://www.netizen.com/


This Wednesday in Pop: Tricky's music is stifling, which is partly why
Rob Levine likes it. On Thursday: Mike Tanner finds out film noir can be
rich as well as dark. And on Friday: Gallery sees Jim Winters' vibrant
stickers staring back from walls and billboards all over the West Coast.

     http://www.pop.com/


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This Week's Guests in Club Wired:

Pop's new live audio chat forum, Pop Talk, kicks off this Monday with
Jimmie Dale Gilmore. Country music's legendary Zen cowboy will talk with
music editor Rob Levine about his recent album "Braver Newer World"
(Elektra) and his current tour.

Start-up satellite technology companies are producing space-based
communications systems on a shoestring budget and maintaining them quite
profitably - effectively breaking the Feds' space barrier. Discuss them
with technojournalist Heather Millar and the Wired Arena crowd on
Tuesday.

Tuesday in Head Space: From the groundbreaking depths of her
award-winning debut novel, "The Cipher" (Dell, 1991), to the heights of
subtle deviance in her latest, "Kink" (Henry Holt & Co., 1996), Kathe
Koja never leads her readers into the dead end of sentimental optimism
or the mire of self-indulgent carnage. Join us when sci-fi's horrotica
diva chats with host Angus MacDonald about her succulent, unsettling
fiction.

Mickey Hart stoked the Dead's backbeat for nearly three decades (along
with Bill Kreutzmann) and opened the ears of the Dead's audience with a
lineup of international percussionists. Hart joins HotWired's Steve
Silberman in Pop Talk on Wednesday to chat about his latest album,
"Mystery Box" (Rykodisc), and to give us the pulse of World Music today.

Wednesday's PacketChat: Wondering where your packets come from? Simson
Garfinkel examines the latest trend in networking infrastructure - the
MAE West high-speed data circuits.

Forget Microsoft vs. Netscape - the fallout of the browser wars may be
the death of online communities altogether. Andrew Leonard discusses how
browser-specific chat rooms, such as MTV Online's new IE-only "Choose or
Lose," could erode the open nature of the Web, Thursday in PacketChat.

Thursday in Electronic Frontiers: Apple's Steve Cisler of the Library of
Tomorrow program joins host Jon Lebkowsky to look at the development of
community-based network models, especially those that are analogous to
library systems.

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

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


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