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Will Wall Street buy? New York's big-money mandarins have been snubbing Silicon Valley of late, a chill exemplified by Wired Ventures' humiliating failure to float its own IPO last summer. "The new-issues market is not particularly strong right now, particularly for tech stocks," says Standard & Poor's analyst Robert Natale. "Amazon will be an indication of whether bellwether technology stocks can find an audience...
...advantage of your new digital TV, so expect to shell out $500 or so for one of those. Then again, by the time that analog signs off the airwaves, DVD and DVD-R discs will have put the VCR next to the eight-track on the dust bin of tech history, so that's not much of a problem...
...early days of the cult were a far cry from the well-organized, high-tech Rancho Santa Fe operation. Applewhite and Nettles, who did odd jobs to support themselves, were arrested in Harlingen, Texas, for stealing gasoline credit cards, a charge that was later dropped. Applewhite then spent months shuttling from state to state in a confusing legal tangle over a car. During this period, he wrote his first spiritual manifesto. Applewhite and Nettles also had a brush with a comet. Stranded with a broken-down car in St. Louis, Missouri, they comforted themselves with the thought that "God would...
...time versions of such 20-min. shorts as Chaplin's The Rink and Keaton's The Boat, a different one airing about every six weeks. Despite its small, 2-in. by 2.5-in. viewing window (elegantly set within a virtual Art Deco theater), the site's array of low-tech physical humor and grainy black-and-white images has garnered more than 100,000 hits from over 70 countries in just two months...
According to the staff, however, the music choice is not as important as the Tasty's high-tech sound system, which can be operated by the proprietor as he stands be hind the grill...