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...Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom. It has introduced a confident new brand name, "3," along with a snazzy logo and enough empowerment-through-technology hype to make you think it's 1999. "What we are doing is without precedent," says Hutchison 3G spokesman Matt Peacock in London. "3G is, in our view, a new medium. We are the pathfinder for the new medium...
...Peacock acknowledges that 3 has been beset by delays (which are reported almost gleefully in the English press). Although the company might not make its original goal of a full-scale launch by year-end, Peacock says he's confident that it won't miss by more than a few weeks. "More important than making a deadline," he adds, "is ensuring that the product delivers as promised...
...went to the Lampoon party; I’m a member of the Lampoon. It was great until some jackass pulled the fire alarm. The best part was the costumes, the costumes were really good. Alex Cooley’s peacock costume was the highlight, I’d say. I dressed up as the tennis player from The Royal Tenenbaums crossed with Jimmy Connors. I ended up sleeping on a couch at the Lampoon until the morning...
...used to be a lot more messy,” Gray claimed. “The show has gotten much tighter since our early days.” Both Gray and Ball disavow any knowledge of the mess of buttons and samplers that sit behind drummer Olly Peacock onstage, from whence come the skittish beat of “Detroit Swing 66” and the manic piano riff of “Army Dub.” But perhaps the most impressive element of the show is the band’s ability to reproduce the rich vocal harmonies...
Nazi-inspired motorcycle helmets have been around since, well, the Nazis. But now they are becoming the headgear of choice for a growing corps of professionals who want that bad-boy biker image. Jim Peacock, president of Butthead Novelties, sells about 500 German-style helmets a month--up 20% from a year ago--at $50 each to customers in "the in-crowd kind of states, like California." John Daniele, owner of the online retailer Helmets R Us helmetsrus.com) says it's not a Hell's Angels thing. "I'm selling them mostly to professional, business-oriented people," he says...