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Nortel May Need to Chop Off an Arm…

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/TGAM/20020930/ RNORT/Headlines/headdex/headdexBusiness_temp/2/2/23/ ‘Ultimate supplier’ Nortel may be out of demand By DAVID AKIN Monday, September 30, 2002 – Print Edition, Page B1 In 1885, just...

Starving Music Fans Cling to Former Glory..

Nasty URL below. In a great tribute to the mediocrity currently being propagated by the Music Industry, rock fans are spreading an old garage track recorded by Nirvana just prior to Cobain’s suicide like wildfire over GNUtella. It’s further testimony to...

Think You Have a Book in You? Think Again

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/28/opinion/28EPST.html Think You Have a Book in You? Think Again By JOSEPH EPSTEIN EVANSTON, Ill. According to a recent survey, 81 percent of Americans feel they have a book in them — and that they should write it. As the author of 14...

Bull Market / Bear Market

Introducing ORIGINS… a new feature on FOIB that is even more trivial than the rest of FOIB. Ever wondered where expressions come from? Ever wonder why people use such funny slang? Ask now, and FOIB (okay, Google) answers:

Steal This Column..

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020926.html Steal This Column Criticism Won’t Change the DMCA, but Breaking the Law Will By Robert X. Cringely After last week’s column about BayTSP and its CEO, Mark Ishikawa, I received hundreds of critical...