pineapples
This woman wrote a stunning letter to McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She's awfully cute with that pineapple.
( Monday, November 29, 1999)

golden handcuffs (standard)
"But let's take a step back. At what point in an Internet company's evolution does staying become so unappealing that the promise of millions is the only thing keeping employees from heading out the door?"

This is a very relevant article, if for no other reason than the fact that very, very soon I will be working for a large startup. And I don't have any idea of how many options I am being offered yet. The number could very well determine how long I stay there.

"Strategically developed salary and stock-option plans work in the short term. But in time, they frequently fail to retain employees because it turns out that work is about more than just a paycheck. In the Internet Economy's race to sell out, a lot of people seem to forget that."
( Saturday, November 27, 1999)

peter drucker (nyt)
"Some 45 years ago Drucker declared a celebrated premise. "There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer." Does that premise still pertain? "What else?" he asked. "Who else pays the bills?" From that conviction has come his creed: Value and service first, profit later. Maximizing profit, perhaps never."
( Wednesday, November 17, 1999)

make noise or die (wired)
"But, industry execs say, there aren't many companies that either (a) think they need to plan that far out, or (b) have the smarts for it."
( Tuesday, November 16, 1999)

party on. (nyt)
"The library, however, neglects to mention that our lack of a year 0 was a blunder. When the Scythian monk Dionysius Exiguus (roughly, Denny the Runt) invented the A.D. system in 525 A.D., he began with 1 as the first year of Jesus's life.

"One is a sensible start, of course, especially if you don't have a zero. In 731, the Venerable Bede extended Denny's system backward, inventing the B.C. years. Like Dionysius, Bede had only zero-impoverished Roman numerals. He stuck minus-1 (1 B.C.) right next to plus-1 (1 A.D.) This is like counting backward from 2001 directly to 1999, skipping 2000."
( Saturday, November 13, 1999)

solar storms! woo! (wired)
"The world's power grids and satellites could experience major disruptions over the next three years due to intense solar activity, scientists said Wednesday.

"The United States is particularly vulnerable to cyclical periods of solar storms, called solar maximum, because of its heavy reliance on satellites for communications."
( Thursday, November 11, 1999)

summer babe
this woman rules. totally. someday she and i will be working on all sorts of things together.
( Wednesday, November 10, 1999)

money isn't enough (nyt)
"There's a sense out there in America that for years people strived for prosperity, and now they've achieved it but feel incomplete," said Mark McKinnon, Bush's media consultant. "Governor Bush has articulated a message that many Americans feel, which is that it's not enough for our wallets to be full if our hearts are empty."
( Sunday, November 7, 1999)

another salon article on sf
"This may be the most unlivable city in America, but too many of its residents are lost in such a haze of self-righteous entitlement and aggrieved internecine warfare that they don't even seem to know it. And the things that are wrong with San Francisco were so many years, so many decades, in the making, that it's absurd to think the Internet had anything to do with it."
( Wednesday, November 3, 1999)

boo!
it launched. here's the standard's first-look review.
go tristan et al go!
( Wednesday, November 3, 1999)

the hunger site
point, click, donate food. easy.
( Monday, November 1, 1999)