It's Not Your Father's IBM It goes without saying that this is not your father's IBM hosting this event. But the Geek Spa party, which is slated to cap IBM's relaunch of its WebSphere commerce development platform, is definitely a Big Blue event.

International Rectifier Interesting interview with the CEO of my current employer.

Interactive Genome Guide... COOL! As you are reading these words with the cells in your eyes, please pause and lift your right index finger and touch the tip of your nose. Notice the smoothness of operation. Millions of cells in your body participated smoothly in that motion. Each of us is an electrochemical machine -- animal -- being -- composed of cells. What gives life to our cells?

CNN.com - Health - Milestone in human genetics to be announced Monday - June 23, 2000 (CNN) -- In a major step toward a new era of gene-based medicine and disease treatment, two research centers are expected to announce on Monday that they separately have sketched a map detailing the secrets of human genetic structure.

CNET.com - News - Personal Technology - IBM thinks small with 1GB hard drive for handhelds For perspective, that means the difference between a maximum of 16 high-resolution images on a 16MB CompactFlash card and almost 400 for the Microdrive. The Microdrive is also cheaper than the CompactFlash: A 128MB CompactFlash card costs about the same as--or more than--the 340MB Microdrive. The new drive also can serve as a data-exchange accessory to notebook computers, desktop computers and printers, the company said. IBM claims future applications may include wearable computers, electronic books, Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers used to guide automobile drivers, smart phones and electronic wallets.

CLICK 'N HELP You've probably seen the The Hunger Site. You click on the button, and they donate food. Now there is the The RainForest Site. Click the button, and you save 12 sq. feet of Rain Forest. There is also Clear Land Mines which allows you to help pay for the removal of landmines from around the world.

Microsoft Internet Explorer High Encryption Pack Microsoft has released a new version of IE, v5.01 SP1. According to the website, provides the latest updates and security fixes to the Internet Explorer technology. Internet Explorer 5.01 SP1 can be installed as an upgrade to existing versions of Internet Explorer, or on computers with no previous Internet Explorer installation. If you are running Windows 9x or Windows NT 4.0, installing Internet Explorer 5.01 SP1 will upgrade your computer to 128-bit encryption. If you are running Windows 2000, installing Internet Explorer 5.01 SP1 will not change the current level of encryption on your computer.

Fortune: 6.26.2000 The Hot Idea of the Year Shuttering Napster won't save anyone's bacon. Tons of music already trade free via Gnutella, and since Gnutella is a technology, not a company, it can't be sued and it can't be closed down. Even if it could be, similar services are popping up. This stuff is irrepressible....A peer-to-peer network can move faster than the Web because users search for data on countless numbers of hard drives simultaneously. The information can be much more timely, too, since it comes straight from a computer that might have been updated only a few seconds before you launched your search. And peer-to-peer services can even anticipate precisely where to find what you're looking for on the basis of your past pattern of requests, making for faster and more efficient searches and downloads.

Who ever said that mousing shouldn't be comfortable? This company makes MouseRug - woven "mouse pads" that look like classic Persian, Navajo, and other style rugs. They use a specially treated micro fibre. A friend claims he hasn't had to clean the ball and rollers in his mouse since he started using a MouseRug. Of course I haven't had to clean a mouse ball or rollers either since switching to a Microsoft IntelliEye mouse. It doesn't have a ball or rollers. I may still get a MouseRug, they look interesting.

I Spy With My Super Eye Now, if you only could fly, your comic book fantasies would be complete: The University of Rochester has introduced a shortcut to superhuman vision. Using technology developed by astronomers who wanted a better look at the stars, researcher David Williams has developed an optical system that dramatically improves the vision of people with even 20/20 eyesight.