Screaming Penguin

with RadioShack that is... Thanks to ZDNet for sounding the alarm on Microsoft's latest move in a chess game of true world domination. RadioShack is shacking up with everyone they can these days. Its become a virtual mini-mall of "Store-within-a-Store"s, with RCA, Sprint and Compaq already staking out their real estate within the Shack. Luckily, Microsoft has as part of the deal signed on the do the New, Improved but slightly less secure and more unstable version of "R

And the almighty Gartner Group says...

Lincoln Spector's new humor column is out an entitled 'Citizen Gates'. For those not familiar with the Orson Wells classic film, 'Citizen Kane'is considered by many critics to be the best film of all time and by many other critics to be intensely boring and over-dramatic. Familiar or not, you all share the common bond of oppression by a megalomaniacal monopolist and thus this column should get a giggle or two out of you.

If you are a regular Slashdot reader, you will have already seen this story. If you are not, then this probably won't interest you, but you read it anyway. Suck.com, the website with what the French like to call a certain I don't know what, has accomplished the unthinkable: a parody of SlashDot. SuckDot, worthy of reading the fine print, contains enough IPO and masterbation jokes to get any nerd through the day.

For once I disagree. I tend to find John Dvorak's brief opinion columns pretty much on the mark, although thats probably because he never jumps out on any limbs. In this weeks article he mocks the internet startup companies who 'throw away' money by investing in TV and radio advertisements. Although I agree that any little dotcom ebusiness that advertises during the superbowl is not likely to recoup the monumental multi-million dollar 60 second slots, I wouldn't agree that reaching out to the TV and radio audience is less effective than online banner ads.I have noticed a wonderful trans