An nameless reader writes "New York daily has a story about some of the flashy new ideas that are coming out of the labs of the New York Times. The piece prompted Peter Wayner to dig up some of the old Java applets he wrote to explore whether more promiscuity really stops AIDS and whether closer can do everything to speed up the games. He notes that these took a great deal of work to produce and it's not third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 to do them on a daily basis. Furthermore, they're cranky and fragile, perhaps thanks to Java. Are cool, intermedia puss* the future of journalism on the web? Or will simple ASCII text pick up to be the most productive way for us to mingle our thoughts, especially when ASCII text won't make a classloading error?"

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