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Something To Live For (4/16/00)
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So you're out there on the ledge, tie flapping in the breeze, your expensive coiffure ruined by your compulsive hair-tearing as you watched the Dow and the NASDAQ duke it out in the financial equivalent of a limbo contest. As the markets played "how low can you go," you watched your net worth spiral down the drain of insolvency. You've lost it all-- and now you're going to end it all, because two weeks ago you were riding the crest of the Internet Economy, and today you can't even afford an ice cream cone. But hey, buddy, cheer up; if you put those suicide plans on hold until after Tuesday, those happy folks at Ben & Jerry's will buy you a cone. On the 18th, from noon until 8PM, ice cream's on the house in every B&J's store all over the world. See? There is something to live for.
In fact, you don't even have to wait until Tuesday the 18th to start feeling better. Faithful viewer Julie Stephens points out that Ben and Jerry (or at least their WebHeads) are evidently Mac people, because in anticipation of Free Cone Day, they used the HomePage component of iTools and posted their own iMovie revealing "The Dangers of Cow Tipping." Check it out, 'cause it's a hoot-- just the thing to get your mind off the fact that the DotCom bubble popped hard, and you'll be hiding from creditors and eating cat food for the rest of your haunted, sad little life.
So let's recap, shall we? The ice cream's on Ben and Jerry, the bandwidth's on Apple, and nothing beats goofy home movies and frozen treats to cheer up a depressed little day-trader. So come in from off the ledge, unplug the phone, and watch "The Dangers of Cow Tipping" over and over again until Tuesday. Then drag your sorry butt down to the local Ben & Jerry's, freeze your head on some free eats (there's even sorbet for the vegans out there-- are you listening, Steve-o?), and we guarantee you'll feel better. Good thing there are Scoop Shops not too far from Wall Street...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 4/16/00 episode: April 16, 2000: Markets got you down? Cheer up-- get some free ice cream from Ben & Jerry's and enjoy their iMovie, to boot. Meanwhile, Palm and Microsoft prepare for the next stage in their tussle for handheld supremacy, while Apple continues to sit on the sidelines, and while it doesn't grant access to missile launch codes or let you post a scanned photo of your butt on NASA's web site, the Easter egg buried in MSIE5 is still pretty nifty...
Other scenes from that episode: 2231: Sitting Out The War (4/16/00) And while we poor, optimistic schmucks continue to wait impatiently for Apple's promised re-entry into the handheld computer market, neither Palm nor Microsoft is standing still. In fact, the rumors making the rounds about Palm's next move sound familiar in a very Applesque way... 2232: IE Meets Mozilla (4/16/00) Hot on the heels of last week's revelation about Microsoft's web server Easter egg, we've been told about an Easter egg in the latest version of Internet Explorer for the Mac. The web server back door was as potentially harmful as it was amusing: reportedly typing the phrase "Netscape engineers are weenies" into the FrontPage web editing software grants illicit access to tons of web sites out there running under Windows NT...
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