] For the first time ever, consumers and game enthusiasts
] will get a first-hand virtual look inside the Electronic
] Entertainment Expo (E3Expo), the world's preeminent
] interactive entertainment trade show, the Interactive
] Digital Software Association (IDSA) announced today. The
] Web site, E3Insider (www.e3insider.com), will launch on
] May 14th at 10am when E3Expo's doors open to thousands of
] industry professionals at the Los Angeles Convention
] Center.
]
] "With the launch of E3Insider, we've opened E3Expo's
] `virtual doors' so that consumers and game enthusiasts
] from around the globe can experience the excitement of
] E3Expo," said Douglas Lowenstein, president of the IDSA,
] the trade association that represents U.S. computer and
] video game publishers and the owner of E3Expo. "E3Expo is
] a trade-only event, established specifically as a venue
] for the worldwide interactive entertainment community to
] showcase new products and take care of business. With
] that said, we felt it was important to be able to offer
] the millions of gamers out there who support this
] industry a way to see what's going on at the show, and
] E3Insider will do just that."

The new site will capture the show's action and excitement through interactive coverage, news from exhibitor booths, interviews with industry professionals, video clips, photo galleries and stories about the show.
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Hmmmmm. With over 3,000 international journalists at E3 2002, I'm surprised that show mgt started E3insider because consumers were being under servered. Comdex, CES and NAB have published content rich websites during their huge trade shows. Last year, Comdex even had an online forum that only a few people used. I was one of them. It will be interesting to see if E3insider captures the coolness of the big three day event.

E3Expo Launches Web Site for Consumers

] The Arcade Company, Inc. is throwing a birthday party for
] the Nashville Arcade as it turns 100 May 20th. The
] celebration is slated to take place the week of May 19th
] and will include thousands of dollars in cash giveaways
] as well as performances by a brass band playing hits from
] the turn of the century.

I love the arcade. Shoeshines at Percy's, Hosuse of pizza, the smoke shop, the peanut shop, smoothies, and people watching. What more could you ask for?

Arcade celebrates 100 years with cash, big brass bands

] Wilson says the entrepreneurs he wants to back now are
] people who come out of specific industries, and thus
] understand the problems and how customers would use the
] technology.

This article is hilarious. Basically it's the VCs saying that they are just now realizing that tech infrastructure business are now maturing and the real investments are in applying technology. DuH!

A Bubble-Era VC Is Itching to Get Started Again

] I'm Saddam.
] Saddam I am.
]
] I do not like you,
] Uncle Sam.

more funniness from Maddox

Would you like to bomb Iran?

Read how those defending your rights weren't allowed to speak in opposition to this bill.

How Sausage Is Made - House Judiciary Committee OK's HB0457!

] Every so often, the author of everyone's favorite network
] reconnaissance tool, nmap, runs a survey to determine
] which security-oriented software products are most
] popular

blogged for future reading

Slashdot | Nmap Security Tool Survey

] The SARS virus can live for days in the stool and urine
] of patients, the World Health Organization said Sunday in
] a new report that could shed light on the frightening
] spread of the disease.
]
] Hong Kong scientists have suspected the virus could live
] in sewage -- something that could help explain an
] outbreak that affected residents at a large apartment
] complex.

Which explains why it's centralized in China, and why all the people walking around with surgical masks are idiots.

SARS Lives Long, Prospers in Poop

] Old-school R&D was strictly in-house. The new model for
] success requires collaboration with many innovators.

blogged to read later

Reinventing R&D Through Open Innovation

] Some days, work is so horrible that Christa Adams must
] leave her desk and take a walk around the building to
] calm down. The horrifying, violent sexual images that pop
] up on her computer screen still unnerve her.
]
] But she is no longer shocked. After all, she went looking
] for those images. It is part of the job when you are a
] porn-tracker.
]
] She is one of about a dozen "verifier technicians" at 8e6
] Technologies, an Orange-based firm that develops software
] for organizations seeking to keep employees or children
] from looking at inappropriate Web sites.
]
] For the most part, the idea of looking at porn on the
] Internet all day - and getting paid for it - brings
] mischievous grins to their faces, though they concede
] that the job is not as exciting as it may seem.

Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/01/2003 | They look at porn all day, so others won't be able to

Kinda adds new dimension to the tech term "fat pipe", no? :]

] The human genome is about 3,120,000,000 base pairs long,
] so half of that is in each spermatozoa -- 1,560,000,000
] base pairs.
]
] Each side of these base pairs can either be an
] adenine-thymine or a guanine-cytosine bond, and they can
] be aligned either direction, so there are four choices.
] Four possibilities for a value means it can be fully
] represented with two bits; 00 = guanine, 01 = cytosine,
] and so forth.
]
] The figures that I've read state the number of sperm in a
] human ejaculation to be anywhere from 50 to 500 million.
] I'm going to go with the number 200,000,000 sperm cells,
] but if anyone knows differently, please tell me.
]
] Putting these together, the average amount of information
] per ejaculation is 1.560*109 * 2 bits * 2.00*108, which
] comes out to be 6.24*1017 bits. That's about 78,000
] terabytes of data! As a basis of comparison, were the
] entire text content of the Library of Congress to be
] scanned and stored, it would only take up about 20
] terabytes. If you figure that a male orgasm lasts five
] seconds, you get a transmission rate of 15,600 tb/s. In
] comparison, an OC-96 line (like the ones that make up
] much of the backbone of the internet) can move .005 tb/s.
] Cable modems generally transmit somewhere around 1/5000th
] of that.
]
] If you consider signal to noise, though, the figures come
] out much differently. If only t

Penises have higher bandwidth than cable modems