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FW: AOL buys IIA

—— Forwarded Message From: dennis Organization: Pigsty Industries Reply-To: dennis [at] chimpz [dot] com Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 09:22:01 -0700 To: ian [at] ianbell [dot] com Subject: AOL buys IIA One of the best goes to one of the worst . . . America...

Friendly Viruses

I think this is a really interesting concept.. Imagine an internet where friendly computer viruses are just as prevalent as unfriendly ones. Without any operator intervention, a friendly virus “attacks” a host system and installs itself, then running and...

FW: Bush and Cheney are oilmen

Wow.. This is brilliant analysis. Read the whole thing. -Ian. —— Forwarded Message From: “B.K. DeLong” Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 12:33:58 -0400 Subject: [fork-in-exile] Bush and Cheney are oilmen (Sidenote: I’ve since discovered that since...

Now That Sucks!

Wow. Imagine having to do business using AOL email and the AOL interface. This will sap their productivity 40%. -Ian. ——— http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/cn/20010516/tc/mandatory_e-mail_at_aol_1.html Wednesday May 16 12:00 PM EDT Mandatory e-mail at...

AOL and SONY hook up to put SERVICES on the Playstation2

Read into this the fact that you will now have Instant Messaging, email, etc. on the Playstation and this is a VERY significant step for both internet services and the console market. Internet services make a significant lunge away from the PC in a way that is much...

.BIZ Comes Alive

Three years, millions of dollars in boondoggle conferences held all over the world, and dozens of controversies later the ICANN leadership have finally achieved what was perhaps the most simple of all of the major architectural upgrades undertaken on the internet: new...

Hollywood Gets It..

To further my Hollywood is Smarter Than Silicon Valley thesis, a cheeky marketing ploy from Spielberg for an upcoming film. -Ian. —- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010513/wr/web_games_dc_1.html Sunday May 13 1:47 PM ET Scientist Murdered by Sexbot? or Just...

XFL is now ex-XFL.

Just goes to show you some people still just wanna watch sports. -Ian. ———- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/eo/20010510/en/xfl_r_i_p__1.html Thursday May 10 08:41 PM EDT XFL…R.I.P. Goodbye, booty-shaking cheerleaders. “He Hate Me,” we...

Another Modest Proposal: Bomb China

As the U.S. Economy continues to lag and the energy crisis continues to heighten tensions, our friends the US Government have offered few solutions short of ordering Federal offices to reduce energy consumption by sending fewer emails. In fact, most of the US...

Cisco to Set Amteva Free…

I was just telling somebody earlier today that this was going to happen. -Ian. —- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20010510/tc/cisco_to_set_amteva_free_1.html Thursday May 10 08:00 PM EDT Cisco to set Amteva free By Wylie Wong CNET News.com Cisco Systems, which...