Thursday, April 18, 2002

FORTUNE REPORTS on Microsoft's increasingly-sly Federal lobbying efforts, on behalf of every cause from declawing the Antitrust Division to getting its "Passport" technology used for an official personal ID system, putting all of us in a Federal database MS would theoretically be able to infiltrate...

...while ZDnet claims MS and IBM are conspiring to control all future Internet technologies.

posted by clark 9:29 PM

NICHOLAS MURRAY WRITES: "Nineteen Eighty-Four has never really arrived, but Brave New World is around us everywhere."

JUST A WEEK AGO, I was cautiously optimistic but still slightly worried about the 2002 Mariners, who at the time were only 4-3. Since then, they've only won nine straight road games against division opponents. Oh, me of little faith...

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posted by clark 2:37 PM

Monday, April 15, 2002

JUST ONE DAY after I read a zine editorial bemoaning the music biz's continuing demeaning treatment of female musicians, along comes an AP dispatch about companies introducing "feminine" styled guitars for teenage girls. Make of it what you will.

posted by clark 10:31 PM

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