Motient Corporation and Rare Medium Group to Merge

Wed 16 May 200111:33 AM

“RESTON, Va., and NEW YORK, May 14 /PRNewswire/ — Motient Corporation (Nasdaq: MTNT) and Rare Medium Group (Nasdaq: RRRR) today announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement through which Motient will acquire 100 percent of Rare Medium Group using a combination of newly issued Motient stock, shares of XM Satellite Radio stock (Nasdaq: XMSR) owned by Motient and certain other considerations.”

Read the full text of the press release here. I have absolutely no comment right now.

Throbbers

Mon 14 May 200112:45 PM

Why settle for the Internet Explorer “e” logo (or the Netscape “N” logo, I guess, if you insist on using Netscape) spinning in the upper right-hand corner of your browser? If you’ve got a Mac, you can change this branding area — commonly called a “throbber” — with custom throbbers using Apple’s venerable ResEdit.

A Day in the Life, Marked Up

Fri 11 May 200108:12 PM

This is clever.

Majestic

Fri 11 May 200101:18 AM

Hun Sen Says

Wed 9 May 200110:46 PM

The Far Eastern Economic Review, an excellent weekly overview of the other side of the world, has a great interview with Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia. It’s a fascinating peek into the mind of a former Khmer Rouge member trying to translate his current leadership position into something grander.

At the Village Gate

Tue 8 May 200102:11 AM

My girlfriend gave me this amazing album the other day, a live Nina Simone recording from 1961. Incredible.

Second (or Third) First Things First

Mon 7 May 200102:36 AM

Adbusters is holding a re-design contest for its First Things First initiative, which last year united “six of the design industry’s most influential publications” under a single manifesto that, ahem, “set the design world on fire.”