IP: Geeks and Austin Powers

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:38:54 -0700
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>From: James Glave <james@wired.com>
>Subject: Geeks and Austin Powers
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>http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/19770.html
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>Deconstructing Austin Powers
>by James Glave 
>
>10:45 a.m.  19.May.99.PDT
>Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, throw me a frickin' bone here. 
>
>Star Wars: The Phantom Menace opens today, Wednesday, but the technology
>community, forever hurling headlong into the next big thing, is already
>well into its exit strategy. If movies were public offerings, today would
>be the day that geeks cashed in their starwars.com options, bought the
>Porsche Boxter, stuck on a SWINGER2 license plate, and sped off to see
>Austin Powers. 
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>Indulge me, my peers. 
>
>Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, won't open for several weeks. But
>the anticipation is palpable in San Francisco and Silicon Valley -- where
>Austin winks down from every other verrry grooovy billboard in his splendid
>red velvet suit. 
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>[..snipped..]
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>James Glave, News Editor, Wired News http://www.wired.com  +1 (415) 276-8430