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Saturday, June 23, 2001
Movie : : Black Cat, White Cat (1998)
Much recomended - ( Isthe Ushte - as Sir Charles often speaks of ) Eastern Block mafia in action; time well wasted. "The ensuing mayhem involves shrieking gypsies, crooked Yugoslavs, an Uzi wedding, and two dead grandpas who aren't dead after all. In the end the good guy gets the money, the nail comes out of the log, and everyone wins and goes home happy." - DAK
Howard Stern Party : : at the Playboy Mansion!
Check for : : Plastic implants. Sun glasses (at night). Leather jackets. Fake huggs. Big big house.
Reaction : : We are not a dot com company
Two years ago the net was booming on a gold rush. Anything with a dot com in the end was making big bucks, drawing investments and hype. The only reason for being there was money. The net was turned into a roulette with dot com names as numbers. The stock market was on fire and in chaos. Nobody did understand what was going on. The business model was sick. And the start up story will happen again. This time around it will be different. "It seems now that all the really bad business went down the tubes." As pointed out in an article by Christopher Stuttard, editor for BankruptcyData, after compyling a list of companies filing for bankrupcy this month "Hardly any of them were dot-coms." Companies "are stripping the dot-com out of their name" (Tim Miller, president of Webmergers) They still don't get it; and many of these companies wont be around for long to keep the note in front of their corporate parking lot lawn. Read this article and find out why they don't get it. Andy Groove explains in Rational Exuberance. Friday, June 22, 2001
In the works : : [d] is looking to set up web space that will allow all idgrid members to post pictures on the site
From Darryl's sharp pencil : : My intent with industrious-design.com is to provide myself with a visual communications forum for past, present, and future design endeavors -an online portfolio of sorts; a networking tool to capture that challenging design position that has been eluding me. My perfect job is out there.. somewhere...
[info]
...Fungus 'eats' CDs ...Sex degrees of separation ...Rental driver finds Big Brother over shoulder [oh NO!] Thursday, June 21, 2001
Research Firm: Memory Chips Face Worst-Ever Year : : "The only thing that can save the DRAM industry from its worst year is if major companies like Samsung, Micron Technology and Infineon Technologies announce production cutbacks," Norwood said.
O! Canada Gets Fast Interactive : : "Triple Play," will be powered with Linux-based technology.
A fresh T-shirts : : sign of prosperity . he he. The battle continues : : Macintosh diehards are singing Kumbaya, just like the old days. Linux geeks (hey, let's throw out that two-word phrase now, lest there be an anti-redundancy trial on the road ahead) are doing the lambada in the Ramada. : : from wired niews.
Red Hat in the Black : : Red Hat (RHAT), the leading distributor of the Linux operating system, Tuesday reported earnings of $600,000, the first profit in the company's history.
IDRIVE : : As an online file storage alternative, i-drive recommends the subscription-based Xdrive Plus online file storage service. All IDRIVE subscribers were sent an e-mail to remove files from the service or to switch over to XDrive.
FOUND magazine publishes things that people have found (hence the name).
Now you know what to do when you find someone else's note - or toy-shark. summary from our meeting (june 20, 01) 1. news - continues on as usual... -> news. 2. _project -> _project booklet: project is 4 seasons. First issue will be summer - - up until the end of september. All info. will be compiled into a booklet of some form (to be worked out later...) This will act as the mother reference. -> independent _projects: independent projects naturally develop through our discussions. They are a part of the _project booklet, but can also be developed on their own (off to the side) This will act as babies from the mother reference. (our little children :) current independent _projects: 1. postcards city recipes (still in the works) 2. SMS messages (what we save) -> (also in the works) -> Dan had a few other ideas... we should discuss them also. 3. Recording conversations / meetings: this from [jm[: >- I'll record the conversation. I can then edit what we >talked of and make a html-page of it with a link in _project. >It'll be interesting when we collect our _project discussions >how some elements chracteristic to the internet can be >included in the September _project booklet (or whatever we'll end up calling it) >- like links elsewhere etc. >Heh, maybe mails like this should be saved for that too. (maybe not) probably should be summarized like this and sent out... Wednesday, June 20, 2001
idgrid[dot]org traffic report : : Analysed requests
from Sun-03-Jun-2001 03:47 to Wed-20-Jun-2001 00:28 time: (16.9 days) hits: 1999 url: http://www.idgrid.org/ data piped: 172,800 kbytes fact: plants need more water hank
world domination?
some say that hailstorm is Microsoft's first attempt at it... check out Mike's comments on who owns the digital you? Tuesday, June 19, 2001
This is music - Interview with Goran Bregovic : : Click here to get complete list of Discography. [d] recomends Underground (the album)
idgrid[dot]org meeting : : Wednesday @ 646
Place: Habbo Hotel / Paraguay Room time: 646 internet time (17:30 helsinki boys) (10:30 toronto boys) * You can download swatch time for your PC, Mac, UNIX or Palm Pilot from www.swatch.com / if you get lost in Habbo Hotel you can message: dannyb0y, julit or gooddays. If you have any questions please contact us.
Toronto Star : : Garbage Revolution Proposed the city realised that it would be more economic to recycle garbage instead of exporting it to Michigan for $52/ton @ 907,000 tons/year. Toronto is currently recycling %26 of it's garbage.
[travel]
UK-newspaper The Observer's readers choose Finland as the #1 travel destination in Europe and Helsinki #5 destination in the world. What's going on? Well, the article sounds weird from my Helsinki point-of-view, but here are the complete results of the survey.
[tech]
...Creative Labs preps 1394-based digital music rig ...for all you audio and video fanatics, Maxtor queues up 100GB hard drive ...here we go again, another nasty MS server hole Monday, June 18, 2001
[kidz]
...yeah, once we where them, some of us will have some one day... ...site for those who have them or don't have a clue about kids Sunday, June 17, 2001
For the most geekies of the bunch : : here is ANADTECH (from Anand's Hardware Tech Page) - a hardware analysis and discussion group. Here you can read in the well known Tom's Hardware guide style about the latest and fastest chips systems and other crazy things that populate the inners of your machines. Most of the equipment we own can be considered vintage compared to what these guys are spotting. But hey, it works.
productless : : designRAW's Markus Diebel, a 35-year-old German with the countenance of a guru, tells her: "We're not selling anything - apart from a point of view." 
Audi Sport : : does it again this year at 24 Hours of Le Mans race wining 1-st and 2-nd, followed into 3-rd by the excellent design closed car by Bentley, the EXP Speed 8s. It was first in 71 years that Bentley put a car on the French track; and they made it to finish and podium. Cadillac came 4-th in this race supported by Team PlayStation Chrysler Mopar. Mercedes was absent this year from the race. In the GT class Porsche domintated the race from one end to other, and GTR was taken by the number 63 Corvette. 
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