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'80s Drum Machines Will Never Die - Desktop DJs get a new software emulation of Roland analog drum and bass machines. [Wired News]
 
'Censored' Documentary Fights to Be Seen - A look at the ways corporate powers influence news coverage has been picked up by few PBS stations. Its supporters are crying censorship; PBS says the filmmakers, like others, just need publicity. [Wired News]
 
'Elvis of Fonts' to Bust Out Rock Star ABCs - Chank Diesel will launch his latest digital assault on lame fontography next week, with a series created by rock stars. [Wired News]
 
'Friendly Fire' in Spam War Claims Victim - Somebody transposed some numbers in an IP address. As a result, Peter Hall was kicked off EarthLink and labeled a spammer. [Wired News]
 
'Old, Weird America' Returns on CD - Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music was an artifact of an earlier, stranger time that became a 'bible' to later generations searching for roots that echoed their sense of mystery. [Wired News]
 
'PLATO People' Reunite, Honor Founder - Don Bitzer, creator of the world's first online community, was the focus of a reunion at the University of Illinois. [Wired News]
 
'Radio Art' Squelches, Pops Its Birthday Song - Beginning today, a Viennese radio station celebrates 10 years of experimental electronic radio music with a 96-hour cybercast. [Wired News]
 
'The Pitch' F! - The Funeral Channel - The F! channel will offer definitive coverage of famous deaths - all day and all night. Sure, reruns will attract only the faithful (or the downright weird), but when the world mourns, F! becomes must-see TV in a way NBC execs can only dream of. [Wired News]
 
'Tis the Season for Spotting Aliens - The UFO Friendship Conference kicks off a particularly enthusiastic UFO time of the year. [Wired News]
 
... And the Winner Is ... Hype! - The Webby Awards displayed new media's desperate thirst for fame, glitz, and ad sponsors. [Wired News]
 
2B1 Thinks Globally, Taps Children Locally - Under the aegis of MIT's AI and New Media Lab, a new foundation hopes to wire the world by using its cheapest resource. [Wired News]
 
60 Minutes Scoop: Net Is a Rumor Mill - So the Internet has its share of kooks and conspiracists. So, apparently, does television. [Wired News]
 
A Bot to Take on Audio Pirates - A Net search company and a digital watermark company are creating a way to track unauthorized audio files on the Net. Also: Saving your seat, competition videogaming, and computer gaming parlors. [Wired News]
 
A Breath of Fresh TV - Since the old networks are slowly dying and new channels are being born all the time, TV is entering one of its more creative phases. [Wired News]
 
A Chat with the Master of Digital Hell - R. U. Sirius talks with Mark Dippe about Spawn's digital film effects and who's really evil. [Wired News]
 
A Cheat Sheet for Internet Sound - Deciphering digital audio formats. [Wired News]
 
A Cross-Cultural Verbal Explosion - Three generations of radical poets/performers, including Miguel Algarin and Guillermo Gomez-Pe a, converge for improvisational pastiche and word jam. [Wired News]
 
A Film Festival for the Masses - With 15 short films for public consumption online, the Reel Time Film Festival dreams of eliminating the sunglasses-and-lift-tickets classism from the festival circuit. [Wired News]
 
A Funny Thing Didn't Happen on the Way to the Web - While comedy site Conk is hoping to be the Tonight show of the Web, it will have a hard time beating most Net comedy, which has one important filter: Your friend who passed it on. [Wired News]
 
A Gala Night for Weird Science - The Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony gathered a host of science luminaries - who quickly shed any inhibitions - in a farcical tribute to the weird moments of science. [Wired News]
 
 

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