A cross-country journey on a Harley-Davidson Fat Boy in 1996 served as the catalyst for the launch, a three-year-old Seattle company that has become the de facto outfit for anyone looking to convert media to Web-ready files. Former Microsoft executive Martin Tobias, 35, rode 1,000 miles aboard his motorcycle as the subject of a 1996 documentary about the annual gathering of “Hogs” in Sturgis, S.D. Read more »
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Nasal Maneuvers
Digi Scents might well put the Web into sensory overload sometime soon, but its seventh-floor offices in downtown Oakland certainly don’t offer a clue, unless you count the faint smell of new carpet. It’s typical startup — drab decor, and smells pretty much like an office. Read more »
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Personal Television 2
TOMORROW
What is the future of television? Will it continue to capture so much of our time?
Some have suggested that with the emergence of cable and satellite, we’re in the midst of a headlong rush to the “500-channel universe.” With more channels, the argument goes, we are doomed to waste more time.
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Dream Factory
Net startup hatcheries are incubating the next generation of billion-dollar Web firms. They hope.
Sky Dayton is standing in front of a whiteboard in the kitchen of the temporary offices of his latest venture, eCompanies. A moment earlier, the 28-year-old Internet millionaire was sitting at the conference table that takes up much of the room, but that didn’t last long; he’s the kind of person who seems like he can exist in the same vicinity as a blank whiteboard for only a few minutes without feeling compelled to cover it in various business-related schemata.
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You – yes, you – are about to become a TV station
As the end of the 20th century draws near, lists abound.
You’ve seen them – they outline the most significant events of the last 100 years, the most important people, the greatest books and movies, the best films, the silliest predictions. They are all quite subjective, of course, and based strictly on opinion. They spur a lot of discussion and cause some people to get into raging debates. A peculiar activity, we might suppose, heightened by the fact that we are not only closing out a century, we are also closing out a millennium.
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Ode to Joy
Add a spirit of adventure and some welcome excitement to long winter days by inviting the whole family, a bored child or a group of friends to finger paint.
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Save on Travel
I’m on a very tight budget, but right now, I have the worst case of the travel bug. Is there a way to work odd jobs while bumming and traveling around Europe, my favorite destination? Where can I get info?
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Woodworking Music
Lots of time & money is devoted to channeling negative, destructive energy. Here I propose a simple, cost-effective answer: woodworking to music.
Channeling negative energy into something positive doesn’t work too often. You go for a run and mess up your knee, swim half a mile and get lapped several times by a small army of girls aged 7-12, or stare at a potting kiln in terror. Trimming the hedges works well but you can only trim the hedges so often. Channeling the specially destructive brand of negative energy that arises with airplane delays, holiday traffic, or any sort of emotional crap poses grave problems. This is where woodworking comes in. Let me take pains to be precise about this. I don’t mean exacting work with fancy saws and twenty layers of lacquer, a binder of blueprints, and a fully equipped workshop.
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