Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 159

I inform dear readers that after this release, “Nevod” will stop generating interruptions for almost three weeks - until February 1st. Not due to unforeseen disasters, but simply by force of will: the author is a single-tasking system, and the system urgently requires reinstallation. Which will, without a doubt, be successfully completed by February 1st. This is not an excursion to the Galapagos Islands .

And now - go for a walk, as a certain child hopelessly repeated every five minutes during a four-hour walk that was completely undesirable for him in the back seat of a Moskvich that was dying.

Participants in the endless voting on the contours of “Strana.Ru” are now trying to determine by voting the name of the president of this magnificent country with an anthem to the music of Alexandrov, a tricolor as a flag, an acid stamp as currency, a headless eagle as I won’t say what, bearing the name Ru and maintaining body temperature +21 C.

Napster and Bertelsmann demonstrate how they are going from Napster to extract money : by crossing the service's own software and CDNow .

Today, the US Department of Justice is expected to submit its hundred-and-fifty-page version of comments for the appellate court judge in the lawsuit against Microsoft : according to the laws of the genre, the plaintiff must sing the praises of Judge Jackson, whom the defendant, in his version presented in November, accused of incompetence and bias.

with the “ Salon ” on “ Anekdote.Ru ”. In connection with the second anniversary, multiple transformations occurred

In 2001, the film " 2001: A Space Odyssey " turned out to be more relevant than one might expect, given that it was filmed in 1968.

" Moscow Libertarium " announced a tender to redraw itself.

format was invented The mp3 (conventionally called MP3 Pro for now ), which makes the files half the size and the quality twice as good.

Today opens ” , finally filmed in New Zealand, the official website of the film epic “ The Lord of the Rings .

On January 10, the 4,000th poem was published in the “ Element ” project. Such is the love for round numbers.

In Salon Magazine , Scott Rosenberg discusses whether government control of the Internet is inevitable.

January 10 Yahoo! from All Nazi symbols were removed, except coins, banknotes and stamps from the Second World War.

As a consolation to writers whose work has been rejected by publishers , there is a lonely hearts club just for such victims. English speakers, really.

The number of hosts worldwide exceeds 100 million , according to Telcordia Technologies Corporation .

David US Congressman Dreyer has prepared a bill that would exempt American Internet providers from liability for content posted on their servers by users. Thus, no foreigners will be able to make claims. Based on the lawsuit against Yahoo! and Yahoo! France , without a doubt.

China is planning to create " its own personal information superhighway ." Overcrowded and with a strict ban on two people going to the same computer, one must assume.

The Primorye Regional Center for Wildlife Protection " Call of the Taiga " publishes a magazine of the same name . The magazine's slogan is: "A magazine for those who are in no hurry to go to Hawaii . " It’s possible that I’m having an attack of déjà vu; It is equally possible that the Primorsky regional center, etc. This slogan was stolen from somewhere. In the end, it doesn’t matter - the original source, if there was one, has disappeared from memory anyway. For those who are not in a hurry to go to Hawaii, we offer, for example, the section “ All about the tiger ”. Is this normal?

" The Language Shop " - for everyone who has been or will ever be on the road: Guy Davenport , Robert Walser and William Saroyan , James Laughlin , Nick Cave and Jacques Brel , David Ives and Saroyan again , Elina Voytsekhovskaya - in memory of Viktor Shneider , Anna Glazova , Leonid Zeigermacher and Alexey Sidorov .