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For Stranded, Sidewalks Are for Sleeping (washingtonpost.com): "The lucky crashed in guest rooms and on sofas, relying on the kindness of their hosts for fresh clothes, a toothbrush and the comfort of candlelight. Business people camped in their stores, with one eye shut and the other keeping watch over wares suddenly made vulnerable because security gates that run on electricity could not close.

At the New York Stock Exchange, 300 members and staff, including Chairman and CEO Richard A. Grasso, spent the night in cafeterias, on couches and in the exchange's boardroom. "

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Praktica - One of the loudest (not with sound) flash sites I've seen.

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Wired 1.06: 1993...

The Next Level: Sega's Plans for World Domination: "Now that it's a $3.6 billion business with a firm grip on your TV, Sega wants to own the entire interactive entertainment industry. "

hmmn... that didn't work

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Look Under P for Paper: "Its hefty tomes had rolled off presses almost continuously since 1768, but in 1998 Encyclopaedia Britannica abandoned paper and ink for the obvious advantages of CD-ROMs and the Net. Revenues plunged. Oops.
Hungry for a return to profits, the company resumed publishing in hardcover in 2002. Now it's having trouble keeping up with orders. 'People just like print,' says Britannica sales director Patti Ginnis. 'They like the feel of the page.' Its competitors are getting the message, too. World Book is printing more reference works again, and so is Encyclopedia Americana. You can't keep a good technology down."

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Segway Sucks

- Segway sucks!!!!

Ah yes, when worlds are reversed.... here we have the wishful thinker of the dot-com days deriding a realist as a "troll" ... bwahahaha.

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Dennett's Deal:
"If Mephistopheles offered you the following two options, which would you choose?
(A) solve a major philosophical problem so conclusively that there is nothing left to say (thanks to you, part of the field closes down forever, and you get a footnote in history) or
(B) write a book of such tantalizing perplexity and controversy that it stays on the required reading list for centuries to come. "