salonherringwiredfool.com is a crazy new experiment! Or maybe it isn’t. (NewsHub has been around since 1996.)

They set a date! They set a date! Windows 2000 will be released on February 17, 2000. Now all that’s left is to miss the date.

I created a very rudimentary search application for the archive of items posted to rc3.org daily. It just searches for the phrase you enter, and returns all of the items that contain that phrase. I may make some improvements later. I reshuffled the left nav bar a bit to accommodate the new search engine, and to rearrange the links according to their current priority. I haven’t written an Outraged! piece since February, mainly due to lack of time. I have some other ideas that I may get around to in the future.

CNNfn has a special report on the impending changes to the venerable Dow Jones Industrial Average. Out go Sears, Goodyear, Union Carbide, and Chevron. Taking their place are Intel, Microsoft, Home Depot, and SBC Communications. Intel and Microsoft are the first NASDAQ stocks to join the Dow party. Some are portraying this move as an attempt to keep up with the more tech-centric S&P 500.

The truth or a joke: a major network picks up a show that features a producer famous for creating talentless but popular bands putting together a new group, who will then move to a house in Orlando and agree to have their lives taped and shown on TV. Find out the answer here.

Speaking of going meta … how about a startup company aimed at providing technology services to startup companies? Probably not a bad idea, but this seems to me like your standard, boring service-oriented concept, not an exciting new company to be launched with all the fanfare of the coronation of a king. I guess when you’re the golden boy of the Internet and are featured on Miller Lite commercials, the world is your oyster.

I generally avoid weblog meta-discussion on this page as much as possible, but I do find the fact that a mainstream journalist (a good one, too) has succumbed to the allure of weblogging interesting.

Today’s Washington Post wonders where the analysts were before IBM’s stock tanked last week. More evidence that the stock market operates on its own momentum, completely separated from what’s really going on at companies. Of course, I’m pretty dubious about the value of analysts in general. Most of the arguments made about academics being divorced from reality count double for analysts (especially IT analysts).

Have any other Today’s Papers readers noticed that the frequency of links to internal Slate pieces has gone up exponentially of late? I wonder if TP is a lot more popular than their other features and they’re trying to mine more traffic from it.

ZDNet has an article about the sale of in-game stuff from EverQuest on EBay. I find the idea of spending hundreds of dollars for a character in a computer game to be pretty silly.