Making Authors and Writers Obsolete?

Last week, InstantNovelist.com posted five short stories on their Web site, a forum for writers.?Four of the 500-word tales were written by humans, but the fifth is by Brutus.1, a fiction-writing program developed by Selmer Bringsjord, director of...

12 Nov, 1999 - 3:18 PM

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3d accelerated X for linux

Xi Graphics Inc. has announced it will be showing its new commercial 3D Accelerated-X Display Server for Linux at COMDEX 99.?It sounds like it has many cool features, like overlay in hardware, truetype font support built...

12 Nov, 1999 - 11:10 AM

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Humor Postcards like no other!

Tired of wimpy lamer I love you postcards? Then check out http://www.monkeyjump.com/postoffice for odd, weird, and funny cards! Take a break, it's good to laugh! Thanks Matthew, we've been too frickin' busy to post news today.

11 Nov, 1999 - 8:20 PM

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Stuff: volume 1

Alright here is my new occasional line of articles I will be posting called STUFF (Whee! That's original, I know.) it will be close to slashdot's weekly "quickies". Here goes...? First why we love Microsoft click...

10 Nov, 1999 - 4:18 PM

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British Censors Hack At The Fight Club

Censors Tuesday ordered two cuts to be made in the controversial Brad Pitt film "Fight Club" before it could be released in Britain.?The British Board of Film Classification ordered the cuts in the film, which had already...

10 Nov, 1999 - 3:41 PM

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Stuff we'd like to buy

Pablo Picasso's "Nude on a Black Armchair" sold for $45.1 million, the fourth-highest price ever paid for a Picasso, at an auction that also fetched a record bid for a Matisse sculpture. Well, you can probably get a...

10 Nov, 1999 - 10:32 AM

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Save Realaudio streams as MP3

A company called streambox has broken the encryption layer of RealPlayer and G2 streams, allowing you to save the stream locally as an MP3 or windows media audio format.?Previously, the security layer would control whether you could download,...

10 Nov, 1999 - 10:17 AM

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RealNetworks is in deep crap

After a recent discovery that the Real Jukebox player was sending detailed user information back to the mothership, RealNetworks is faced with a big class action lawsuit.?RealNetworks violated the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act as well as...

10 Nov, 1999 - 9:58 AM

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More Changes to The Comment System

After a sufficient amount of complaints I have decided to make the comment system have a preview feature so..?Go crazy on the new system and preview before you post.?And yes we do cut out some HTML...

10 Nov, 1999 - 2:01 AM

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Blue World Announces Lasso Studio for Dreamweaver

Blue World Communicationsis releasing Lasso Studio for Dreamweaver 3.?Lasso Studio for Dreamweaver--currently in private beta testing--provides a complete Web application development environment for rapidly building sophisticated database-driven Web applications.?Lasso Studio for Dreamweaver will offer the first comprehensive solution...

9 Nov, 1999 - 11:14 AM

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Kodak DC290 Digital Camera now available

Creativepro reports that Kodak has released a new 2.1 megapixel camera with "intelligent" in camera software apps, whatever that means.?The DC290 is built on Kodak's award-winning DC260/265 camera platform.?The Digita operating environment lets users customize the DC290's features...

9 Nov, 1999 - 11:06 AM

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LCD Flat Panel Displays over 36

DailyWebLog writes "RDI has developed a 38.6 inch diagonal AMLCD prototype capable of full motion video at SVGA or 800x600 pixel resolution.?The prototype is a result of RDI's proprietary tiling technology, which enables the permanent assembly of...

9 Nov, 1999 - 9:27 AM

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Netscape 5.0 A Little Too Late?

Netscape Communications, Inc. announced today that its much anticipated Netscape Navigator 5.0 will be available for trial later this month, the final version coming in February of 2000.?With a beta version of Internet Explorer 5.5 coming soon, what will...

9 Nov, 1999 - 2:21 AM

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Muahaha!

Well, I think our blaire witch madness is coming to an end.?So, I've redirected all the requests for www.blairewitch.com here.?You can still see the other page at blairewitch.com.?If you're here, you're most likely looking for something...

8 Nov, 1999 - 5:37 PM

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Upcoming pics of Evil Dead: Ashes 2 Ashes

As you may know (and indeed you should) the upcoming game based on the evil dead series, Ashes 2 Ashes will storm the homes of cult followers some time next year.?But egor pointed me to some...

8 Nov, 1999 - 1:09 PM

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Interesting article on the state of digital video

Here is an interesting article discussing the changes in filmmaking being brought about by digital video.?On the camera side, Sony's VX-1000, Canon's XL-1 and others are hot commodities with independent and documentary filmmakers.?Those cameras allow you...

6 Nov, 1999 - 3:19 PM

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