Cybertrend
Help Wanted, Offline
With the economy booming, who wants to work retail? No one, according to Silicon Valley's shop owners, who are getting the short end of the dot-com stick. It is a trend seen throughout much of the US as the country basks in a robust economy that has pushed unemployment below 5 percent. But perhaps nowhere is it more pronounced than in Silicon Valley where even receptionists can make millions in stock options if they get in on the right ground floor. Wired News


Latest Attack and a First
Lovesick hacker hits Microsoft site
Earning a footnote in the annals of computer vandalism, a lovesick hacker known as “flipz” on Tuesday became the first person known to have defaced one of Microsoft Corp.’s Web sites. MSNBC


Taking a stand
Firm says it's had 'e-nough'
The folks at enterprise-application tools maker Persistence Software have had "e-nough" and they're not going to take it anymore. In an original bit of "e-marketing," the San Mateo company has launched a campaign to have other marketers stop putting "e-" in front just about any word to make it sound e-commerce ready. USA Today


Shameful !
Execution photos jam Florida court's web site
Macabre photographs of a Florida execution posted on the Internet have prompted the repeated shutdown of the state's supreme court computer system as millions log on to gawk and give their views on capital punishment. ABCNews

Payne Stewart fans flood online auctions
Minutes after Payne Stewart's plane crashed into a South Dakota field Monday, killing everyone onboard, adoring fans and macabre collectors started bidding up prices for the pro's memorabilia. Techserver


Y2K
Analysts' new fear: Y2K the movie
NBC will air next month « Y2K », a made-for-TV film that forebodes disaster at the turn of the third millennium. Power failures sweep the Eastern Seaboard. Commercial jet instruments fail. A nuclear power plant teeters on the brink of a meltdown. Variety magazine calls it "a disaster picture that imagines near-apocalyptic results." The New York Times bills it as "a movie for the chronically panic-stricken." USA Today



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Y2K. Anti-virus companies have been warning that malicious programmers will take advantage of Y2K fears to slip viruses into users' hands. So far, researchers have identified four rare Y2K related viruses. (ZDNet - October 26)


Wise & Wired
InternationalAffairs.com
Now news and policy hounds can tap into the same tools
that Oxford Analytica scholars use to make their
judgments. [ related article Newsweek - October 25 ]


Daily Quiz
Which item has more sodium?
Sodium - Straight talk quiz about salt, sensitivity and your blood pressure from the Mayo Clinic


Chris Hiers
Editorial Cartoons
"Running Mate"