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June 2001 Archives

Monster.com continues to absorb other June 30, 2001
Monster.com continues to absorb other job sites. FlipDog and HotJobs are the two latest acquisitions....

1997 VW for sale June 29, 2001
We’re selling Christina’s 1997 VW Cabrio. Our asking price is below Kelly Blue Book’s wholesale...

Batty June 29, 2001
Now that New York has banned cell phones, they are turning their attention to that...

Kmart is bowing to pressure June 29, 2001
Kmart is bowing to pressure from protesters and will stop selling handgun ammo. And yet...

You can ask banks not June 29, 2001
You can ask banks not to share your personal information....

Brian Aldiss' Super-Toys Last All June 28, 2001
Brian Aldiss' Super-Toys Last All Summer Long is the story that Kubrick based the story...

Jack Lemmon has died from June 28, 2001
Jack Lemmon has died from cancer at 76....

Also coming soon are some June 27, 2001
Also coming soon are some 80s pop re-releases. Best of Roxy Music and Duran Duran’s...

Two new Thelonius Monk CDs June 27, 2001
Two new Thelonius Monk CDs will be out soon. Monk in Tokyo and Live at...

The Sacramento Kings have traded June 27, 2001
The Sacramento Kings have traded Jason Williams....

Microsoft has decided to drop June 27, 2001
Microsoft has decided to drop Smart Tags from Windows XP and IE6. They will remain...

Sacramento has one of the June 27, 2001
Sacramento has one of the most dangerous intersections in the US....

Update: 18 more states are June 27, 2001
Update: 18 more states are considering laws to make it illegal to talk on your...

I found a great Windows June 26, 2001
I found a great Windows Media Player skin today. When I’m listening to Groove Radio,...

North Dakota is contemplating changing June 26, 2001
North Dakota is contemplating changing the state’s name. The logical choice, Hell, is already taken....

A man walks into a June 26, 2001
A man walks into a German brothel looking to hire a prostitute. He found his...

Starbucks is adding wireless LAN June 26, 2001
Starbucks is adding wireless LAN access to all of their stores this summer. Anyone with...

This is absurd. New York June 26, 2001
This is absurd. New York state has made it illegal to drive a car while...

Score one for freelance writers. June 25, 2001
Score one for freelance writers. Before the Web and other electronic publishing were common, no...

More bad news for Napster. June 25, 2001
More bad news for Napster. Does anyone still use Napster or have they all switched...

Google now searches images. Amazing. June 25, 2001
Google now searches images. Amazing. (via Joel On Software)...

Heh. Windbag and self-proclaimed guru June 25, 2001
Heh. Windbag and self-proclaimed guru Jakob Nielsen’s usability evaluation criteria has been used to evaluate...

Another stupid idea is dead. June 25, 2001
Another stupid idea is dead. (Via Camworld)...

Midway is getting out of June 25, 2001
Midway is getting out of the arcade machine business. Soon arcades will go the way...

30 Million members. Proof that June 25, 2001
30 Million members. Proof that advertising can sell anything....

As the market continues to June 24, 2001
As the market continues to hammer Internet consulting companies, they are starting to revamp their...

Microsoft is shutting down ListBot, June 24, 2001
Microsoft is shutting down ListBot, a service that lets anyone send email newsletters for free....

Anyone can add a spell June 22, 2001
Anyone can add a spell checker to their web site for free using SpellChecker.net. That’s...

Visit Ghost Sites - The June 22, 2001
Visit Ghost Sites - The Museum of E-Failure to view an archive of Web sites...

Classic Atari games coming soon June 21, 2001
Classic Atari games coming soon to a cell phone near you....

I host with these guys. June 21, 2001
I host with these guys. I wonder if the acquisition will make things better or...

Man turns flat into Star June 21, 2001
Man turns flat into Star Trek spaceship. "Tony, who is separated, shares the flat with...

Check out Salon's interview with June 21, 2001
Check out Salon’s interview with Google’s Director of Research in "Google à go-go." It’s an...

I'm so glad this site June 21, 2001
I’m so glad this site provided a way for people to get an explanation on...

'Serial guest' sneaks into hundreds June 20, 2001
'Serial guest' sneaks into hundreds of wedding photos. Kinda makes "rabbit ears" look sorta lame....

What a bunch of Bozos June 20, 2001
What a bunch of Bozos...

Where would you fence a June 20, 2001
Where would you fence a hamster?...

WebReference has an excellent introduction June 20, 2001
WebReference has an excellent introduction to VoiceXML....

"As a tech lawyer, the June 20, 2001
"As a tech lawyer, the thing that I do more than anything else is negotiate....

Now your computer hardware contains June 20, 2001
Now your computer hardware contains spyware...

Hurry up and buy your June 19, 2001
Hurry up and buy your copy of 10 Minute Guide to 1-2-3 Release 4.0 for...

Looks like the DVD for June 19, 2001
Looks like the DVD for Star Wars Episode I will be released on Oct 16th...

What if... June 19, 2001
Abe Lincoln had Powerpoint? (via mrpaTTo.com)...

HBO to Test Video on June 19, 2001
HBO to Test Video on Demand Service. Cool....

Kyocera PalmOS Phone Review. June 19, 2001
"How does the QCP-6035 smart phone from Kyocera, or "Son of pdQ" as we like...

Black(out)Mail June 18, 2001
You can receive email and pager notifications of impending blackouts. Now you can leave your...

Sticking to Your Principals June 18, 2001
"Yet despite the GUI’s popularity, surprisingly few programs exhibit good interface design. Moreover, finding information...

Looking Backwards June 18, 2001
Random thought: in my experience, backward compatibility means that the way it used to be...

Go Where The Road Takes You June 18, 2001
YellowBrix, a maker of news software is buying bankrupt content syndicator iSyndicate....

Manage Web site production June 18, 2001
Macromedia has a new tool called Sitespring that is designed to help manage the process...

The Golden Age of Wireless June 18, 2001
Tech Review has a discussion of public access wireless LANs. What I’d like to find...

Anatomy of a DoS attack June 18, 2001
Steve Gibson details the attacks on GRC.COM. While you are at the site, beef up...

Man bites dog June 17, 2001
The saying goes that "Dog bites man" isn’t news, but "Man Bites Dog" is. How...

Paper millionaire bums June 17, 2001
Slashdot links to an article that describes homeless who until recently were dot-commers riding the...

Fire bad clients June 16, 2001
"Until we can tell IKE to take a hike, we’ll continue to suffer at the...

Merlino's Returns To Sacramento Yum. June 15, 2001
Merlino’s Returns To Sacramento Yum. If you don’t live in Sacramento, you are missing out....

Oracle 9i June 15, 2001
Oracle 9i has been released. The big feature is that instead of running your applications...

MP3 at half the size June 15, 2001
The companies that invented MP3 have created a new format called MP3Pro that is more...

WebHancer is back June 13, 2001
Somehow that blight upon Internet users known as webHancer has found it’s way onto my...