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October 25, 2000 by Michael Boyle

The French cast a suspicious sidelong glance at the net in Wired to the counterculture by Philippe Breton. As expected, it’s a pretty muddled picture.

Tags: Culture, French, Wired

email email email

October 23, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Wired News reverses itself (sort of) on the whole hyphen question. Far more disturbing, though is the use of double dashes instead of space-dash-space when they want an en-dash. It’s wrong wrong wrong. The computer is not a typewriter!

Tags: Email, Space, Wired

I think if I hear

October 17, 2000 by Michael Boyle

some quip like “Heh heh Gore said he invented the internet!” – or worse, some serious critic pointing to it as an indicator of some serious deficiency of his I’m going to hit the roof. Declan McCullough discusses it more in Wired News: The Mother of Gore’s Invention.

Tags: Internet, Wired

Hmmm

October 12, 2000 by Michael Boyle

. This is scary to me: “Britain will give insurers the go-ahead to use genetic testing for the first time to identify the hereditary condition Huntington’s disease.” In Wired News, UK Insurers Back Genetic Testing.

Tags: Test, Wired

Wired News has published

October 11, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Reed Hundt’s reply to Ralph Nader and Nader’s second volley. On balance, Hundt was right to go explicitly into a discussion of the Telecom Act of 96, but at the same time his argument seems more like empty platitudes, not a reasoned debate. Nader could be more constructive at forming his argument though – he seems to be coming at it from several directions at once. Call it a draw.

Tags: ALA, Wired

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