Stories about: Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Internet Archive has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to expand its book-digitizing efforts, which so far have resulted in the scanning of about 100,000 books now available on the group's Web site.

See where the potholes and speed bumps are lurking Dotcom startups have been, and remain, potential paths paved in gold and glory, beckoning everyone--from junior programmers to CIOs. But the fickle stock market has warned dotcom hitchhikers that they're in for a rough ride. The demise of Toysmart.com this past spring shows that even well-publicized companies with capable CIOs like John Puckett can crash and burn.

Arthur Tisi lays big bear hugs on first-time visitors, disarming them to the point of laughter. Over the course of a normal 10-hour day, he slams back half a dozen bottles of neon-blue Powerade, eats three (sometimes four) containers of fruit salad and checks his e-mail at least 40 times. During meetings, he treats the conference table like a set of drums, thumping the floor with his feet while tapping the tabletop in syncopated rhythm. At lunch, he blows off steam with what he calls "retail therapy," impromptu jaunts to the designer stores that line Madison Avenue, in search of stuff he says every self-respecting man should buy--shirts, slacks, Mont Blanc pens and the occasional ring for the missus.

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Montagues and Capulets, move over. Windows and Unix are today's fashionable feud. Feud, in fact, is too soft a word: This is war. Still.