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...understand how drastically the landscape of the online shopping world has shifted since holiday season 1999, you could do worse than pay a visit to Bluelight.com based in San Francisco. Incongruities abound. Here we are at a converted warehouse (major points for geek chic), but it's in the heart of Fisherman's Wharf, Middle America's greatest open-air tourist trap, miles from the hipster hangouts. Inside are all the signs of an unstuffy start-up--pets roaming the halls, people with green hair. Yet what gets them really jazzed is flipping the switch that signals a virtual blue...
...computer or the Internet. But those hackers are a wily sort. Using his father as an agent, Mitnick has been conducting an online celebrity auction (if you consider a techno-felon a celebrity), selling off his cell phone for $355 and getting $510 for his TRS-80 computer. Geek love ran wild when Mitnick's prison ID card went up for sale; that's when eBay decided there might be some legal issues here. After the site stopped the auction and Yahoo and Amazon also refused to participate, Mitnick found a willing auctioneer in dutchbid.com where six bidders have moved...
...agreement, Napster will develop a business model that should allow record companies and performers to be paid for their music. To help the tiny, 53-employee company overcome the enormous technological hurdles involved, Bertelsmann has opened a $50 million line of credit that could easily double. (Now hiring: any geek who thinks he or she can come up with a way to keep music files simultaneously accessible and copyright protected.) The Germans agreed that once the new model is in place, Bertelsmann's subsidiary BMG Entertainment will make its music catalog available and drop out of the copyright-infringement lawsuit...
...crime drama set in Las Vegas, is a cop show with a twist: the heroes are crime-scene investigators (CSIs), forensic scientists who use high-tech tools to nab crooks. The show has a certain Vegas-y rock-'n'-roll sleaze appeal, but underneath it all, CSI is the geek Quincy, in which the true stars are the nail clippings, computer records, carpet fibers and above all DNA, performing like clockwork the same magic that they didn't on Simpson...
...would have gone even it if had snowed," agreed his friend Zach, also 9, who said he was dressed as a "geek from the future...