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- '80s Drum Machines Will Never Die - Desktop DJs get a new software emulation of Roland analog drum and bass machines. [Wired News]
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- 'Censored' Documentary Fights to Be Seen - A look at the ways corporate powers influence news coverage has been picked up by few PBS stations. Its supporters are crying censorship; PBS says the filmmakers, like others, just need publicity. [Wired News]
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- 'Elvis of Fonts' to Bust Out Rock Star ABCs - Chank Diesel will launch his latest digital assault on lame fontography next week, with a series created by rock stars. [Wired News]
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- 'Friendly Fire' in Spam War Claims Victim - Somebody transposed some numbers in an IP address. As a result, Peter Hall was kicked off EarthLink and labeled a spammer. [Wired News]
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- 'Old, Weird America' Returns on CD - Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music was an artifact of an earlier, stranger time that became a 'bible' to later generations searching for roots that echoed their sense of mystery. [Wired News]
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- 'PLATO People' Reunite, Honor Founder - Don Bitzer, creator of the world's first online community, was the focus of a reunion at the University of Illinois. [Wired News]
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- 'Radio Art' Squelches, Pops Its Birthday Song - Beginning today, a Viennese radio station celebrates 10 years of experimental electronic radio music with a 96-hour cybercast. [Wired News]
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- 'The Pitch' F! - The Funeral Channel - The F! channel will offer definitive coverage of famous deaths - all day and all night. Sure, reruns will attract only the faithful (or the downright weird), but when the world mourns, F! becomes must-see TV in a way NBC execs can only dream of. [Wired News]
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- 'Tis the Season for Spotting Aliens - The UFO Friendship Conference kicks off a particularly enthusiastic UFO time of the year. [Wired News]
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- ... And the Winner Is ... Hype! - The Webby Awards displayed new media's desperate thirst for fame, glitz, and ad sponsors. [Wired News]
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- 2B1 Thinks Globally, Taps Children Locally - Under the aegis of MIT's AI and New Media Lab, a new foundation hopes to wire the world by using its cheapest resource. [Wired News]
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- 60 Minutes Scoop: Net Is a Rumor Mill - So the Internet has its share of kooks and conspiracists. So, apparently, does television. [Wired News]
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- A Bot to Take on Audio Pirates - A Net search company and a digital watermark company are creating a way to track unauthorized audio files on the Net. Also: Saving your seat, competition videogaming, and computer gaming parlors. [Wired News]
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- A Breath of Fresh TV - Since the old networks are slowly dying and new channels are being born all the time, TV is entering one of its more creative phases. [Wired News]
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- A Chat with the Master of Digital Hell - R. U. Sirius talks with Mark Dippe about Spawn's digital film effects and who's really evil. [Wired News]
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- A Cheat Sheet for Internet Sound - Deciphering digital audio formats. [Wired News]
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- A Cross-Cultural Verbal Explosion - Three generations of radical poets/performers, including Miguel Algarin and Guillermo Gomez-Pe a, converge for improvisational pastiche and word jam. [Wired News]
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- A Film Festival for the Masses - With 15 short films for public consumption online, the Reel Time Film Festival dreams of eliminating the sunglasses-and-lift-tickets classism from the festival circuit. [Wired News]
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- A Funny Thing Didn't Happen on the Way to the Web - While comedy site Conk is hoping to be the Tonight show of the Web, it will have a hard time beating most Net comedy, which has one important filter: Your friend who passed it on. [Wired News]
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- A Gala Night for Weird Science - The Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony gathered a host of science luminaries - who quickly shed any inhibitions - in a farcical tribute to the weird moments of science. [Wired News]
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- A Good Multivitamin has Plenty of Antioxidants - Dr. Andrew Weil's dos and don'ts for picking the best multivitamin. [Wired News]
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- A Haven for 'Endangered' Art - While musical sampling and artistic re-appropriation raises the ire, and litigation, of lawyers, a new Web site will gather the works of several artists working to build new art from the plundered creations of the past. [Wired News]
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- A New Interface for Fans - By giving fans access to live recordings for the price of blank tape, the Net is not only reshaping the PR and record-distribution industries, it's subtly influencing the music itself. [Wired News]
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- A Paper Mirror for the Web - Coffeehouse, a printed anthology of online writing, aims to be the time capsule of the early Web. [Wired News]
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- A Primitive Vibe from High-Tech Bodies of Art - Sensorband melds technology and the flesh to create unnerving break beats and blasts that connect the band with its audience. [Wired News]
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- A Rose is Not Always a Rose - Posing as a woman in chat rooms invites warmth, some violence, and accidental affairs of the heart. [Wired News]
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- A Thousand Classics for the ASCIIng - Project Gutenberg celebrates its 1,000th free etext online. [Wired News]
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- A Vision for Future Designs - Getting to the source of architectural information, For Inspiration Only succeeds in capturing on paper the mind-bombing that is Future Systems. [Wired News]
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- ABC Won't Press Tough Cult Questions - Diane Sawyer's interview will focus on celibacy and castration, rather than ex-cult member Richard Ford's motivations and movie deal. [Wired News]
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- Aboriginal Culture Awakens Australia - With the Festival of the Dreaming - one of the largest national festivals in honor of indigenous cultures since the country was settled - Australia is giving official recognition to the culture of its original inhabitants. [Wired News]
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- Ackermanthology Delivers Early Sci-Fi Gems - Forrest J. Ackerman publishes a collection of short-stories from his 300,000 piece, house-cum-museum of science fiction in Hollywood. [Wired News]
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- Acrophobia Gameshow Launches on the Internet - The makers of You Don't Know Jack have reworked a made-for-IRC cult hit, Acrophobia. The company hopes to build communities of chatting, clever gamers eager to absorb hours of interstitial ads. [Wired News]
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- AFI Screens Films Online - Wear Your Glasses - Charlie Chaplin's The Rink will be the first entire film screened online - and it will be sure to have that old jerky, early-cinema feel. [Wired News]
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- AI, Teamwork Is Goal of Robot Soccer Tourney - Though the contestants move more like rolling garbage cans than high-tech Peles, RoboCup is making breakthroughs in artificial life and multi-agent collaboration. [Wired News]
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- All That Is Solid Melts into Air - The cult-favorite cable show The Operation offers more or less unabridged documentaries of actual operations. [Wired News]
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- All the World Wide Web's a Stage - The organizer of a six-hour marathon of drama, dance, and spoken word is soliciting audience collaboration to help him play with the meaning of 'site'-specific performance. [Wired News]
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- All-Girl Quake Clans Shake Up Boys' World - CrackWhores tout seduction. Psycho Men Slayers are more demure. But both "kick ass" in the violent game arena. [Wired News]
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- Allen Ginsberg Dying of Liver Cancer - The cancer is untreatable, and the poet has "four to twelve" months to live, his doctor says. [Wired News]
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- America's Progressive-est Home Videos - Do It Yourself Television, a brainchild of Free Speech TV webmaster Joey Manley, aims to provide a platform for low-res activists. [Wired News]
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- American Memory Project Puts History Online - Academics will get a new digital shortcut with an expansion of the AMP at the Library of Congress. Among the materials going online: slave records and music, and American frontier photos. [Wired News]
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- Amerika's Fragmented Pages - The hypertext author's huge multimedia project points to the future of narrative. [Wired News]
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- An Electronic, Otherworldly Portal for Museum-Goers - Allowing visitors to the new ZKM - in situ and elsewhere - to wander the museum and interact with each other, the Difference Engine never lets its users leave. [Wired News]
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- An Oscar Moment for Predigital DIY Journalist - The late George Seldes, the subject of a documentary that was up for an Oscar on Monday night, was muckraking forebear of the Net. [Wired News]
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- Animate the Simpsons Yourself - Erika Milvy reviews Fox's CD-ROM and decides we can't all be Matt Groening. [Wired News]
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- Antenna Pipes Art through Screensaver - When you're not working, Jenny Holzer's pensive proclamations will slide across your desktop. Can a digital Picasso be far behind? [Wired News]
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- AntiOnline Agreement Crumbles, Student Defies Ban - The Net-security Web site will be put back online despite a bungled attempt by the University of Pittsburgh to compromise with its student creators. [Wired News]
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- AOL 'Hacker Riot' More Like Amateur Hour - Victims couldn't distinguish between AOL congestion and hacks. [Wired News]
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- AOL Enlists the 'A-List' for NY Guide - Wendy Wasserstein, Ruben Blades, Derek Walcott, and Spalding Gray will contribute to AOL's highest-profile city guide, Digital City NY, in hopes that "marquee" content will conquer competitors. [Wired News]
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- AOL Revamps - Less Clutter, More Commerce - To survive in the 'Next AOL,' forum leaders must put less emphasis on schmoozing, more on raising revenue. [Wired News]
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- AOL Spends Like Crazy on Asylum - The company's development studio, Greenhouse Networks, gets the funding to build a massive personalized entertainment service. [Wired News]
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- AOL's Hub Debuts Record Label - The Hub will release music compilations drawn from its Web site content, as well as recruit new bands. A partnership with Tower Records enables distribution of CDs, and music will also be directly downloadable. [Wired News]
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- AOL's Santa: Harbinger of Web-to-TV Trend? - A children's show leads the rush to move online properties to TV. Is the Web content ready for prime time, or are we in for Cop Rock redux? [Wired News]
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- AOL4FREE Culprit Tells His Tale - Three weeks after being sentenced, Nicholas Ryan is ready to share his hacking odyssey. [Wired News]
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- AP Tries Its Hand at Multimedia - Rox, a slick new webzine, showcases the Associated Press's most mixed-media friendly stories. [Wired News]
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- Apocalypse Wow: Gaming Goes Hollywood - The showroom floor at the Electronic Entertainment Expo explodes with Disneyfied production values. Janelle Brown reports on the horror that has visitors shell-shocked. [Wired News]
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- Arcosanti Meets the Way New Age - The utopian desert community built by visionary architect Paolo Soleri hosted an assembly of fringe science's most outspoken notables. Mixing the two communities proved interesting. [Wired News]
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- Ars Electronica Web Highlights - This year's festival launched a diverse assortment of Web sites. Austin Bunn picks the must-sees. [Wired News]
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- Ars Unleashes Digital Circus of the Flesh - The 18th annual Ars Electronica thrives on projects that break boundaries, and art that doesn't fit in standard exhibition spaces. [Wired News]
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- Art and Technology in Whimsical Dialog - An exhibit at the Frankfurt Book Fair highlights the ubiquity of technology and modern creation. For today's artists, says the coordinator, a computer is as natural as a pencil. [Wired News]
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- ATT and Microsoft Tune In to Music on the Net - With the two giant companies committed, the notion of the Net as delivery vehicle for music may get more corporate respect. [Wired News]
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- Attracts Gamers Like Magic - Being your own e-merchant may become a reality as SegaSoft merges high-security electronic trading and networked worlds of fantasy. [Wired News]
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- Author Questions Technology's Gifts to Music - Author Paul Theberge debunks the myth of how technology liberates the musician in you. [Wired News]
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- Avatars: Punching into Life Online - If people are indeed the Net's killer app, then just how powerful are their visual representations in human interaction? A San Francisco gathering explores the social ramifications. [Wired News]
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- Away in a Loft, Gabriel Launches Eve - The multimedia rock star avoids clich in his Xplora 1 follow-up through a stirring collaboration. David Kushner reports from the release party. [Wired News]
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- Backyard Mars-Watchers Aid NASA - Hobbyists on Web provide "invaluable" data to mission scientists. [Wired News]
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- Banned High School Journalism Embraced on Web - Hoping to function as nationwide student paper, the Bolt Reporter publishes news by and for teens, including the stories that make school administrators uneasy. [Wired News]
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- Bard of Baud Sees Words as Warez - Robert Pinsky, America's new poet laureate, wants to exploit the Internet to distribute as much oral poetry as possible. [Wired News]
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- Barney Doll Speaks, Takes Orders from TV - Barney's campaign for toddler mind-control takes another step this November when Microsoft teams up with PBS to allow specially encoded broadcasts of Barney & Friends to control the actions of a 16-inch talking Barney doll. [Wired News]
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- Barter Site Aims to Launch Parallel Economy - On the Nella Pages, you can barter Web design skills, graphics, facts, fonts, zines, games, software - even advice about sex, travel, death, and taxes. [Wired News]
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- Baseball Sites Deliver Satisfaction to Office-Bound Fans - ESPN's GameCast is faster than Yahoo's sports netcast, even if its rendering of players makes them look like old-time arcade targets. [Wired News]
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- Battling Info Barbarians at the Gate - Two authors each examine how growing amounts of information will lead to the fragmentation of society. John Alderman explores their pages and positions. [Wired News]
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- Baud Lang Syne - An hourly guide to spending all of your New Year's Eve celebration on the Net. If that's really what you want to do. [Wired News]
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- Be Careful in Your Cure for Strep Throat - Dr. Weil says strep throat can easily become kidney disease or rheumatic fever if not treated correctly. [Wired News]
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- Bearish on Madonna - Rogue Market: Where Wall Street meets Entertainment Tonight [Wired News]
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- Because It's There to Hear: Everest Eavesdrop - Once remote and mysterious, climbing this legendary mountain is now within the reach - or at least earshot - of the Web. [Wired News]
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- Before ... Click ... After - Two beauty-conscious CD-ROMs show what happens when the Image Factory meets Silicon Valley. [Wired News]
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- Belch Your Way to Brighter Kids - SegaSoft ventures into "stealth learning" with a CD-ROM of the Grossology book series. [Wired News]
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- Berlin Artist Wires Bombed-Out Squat - A five-story ruin was settled by artists and musicians after the Wall fell. Now they're finding the Net to be another liberating experience. [Wired News]
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- Berliners Try to Keep Fallen Wall, Art Alive - It's been almost eight years since communism and its barrier crumbled. Now, artists and preservationists are fighting to keep demolition and vandals from erasing all physical traces of this important memory and expression. [Wired News]
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- BET and MSN Target Black Audience - Black History Month spawns a slew of online content focused on community, and profit. [Wired News]
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- Beyond AquaNet: HK FX Get Digital - Can you say "cheesy" in Cantonese? That's the special-effects rep Hong Kong films enjoy. But as it faces its reunification future, the industry is hiring a new breed of young effects wizards. [Wired News]
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- Beyond HOPE Hacks into Big Time - From their own patron saints to a hacker OS, NY's Renaissance Weekend for the hacker community highlighted the further evolution of computer pranksters into the mainstream - and into serious money. [Wired News]
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- Beyond the (Silicon) Valley of the UltraVixen - Importing a genre rife with schoolgirls, S/M, and robot sex, a new anime 3-D sex game combines a bizarre plot with kinky tastes. But successfully exploiting cross-cultural fetishes while sidestepping local taboos is tricky business. [Wired News]
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- Blazing a Trail through Civilization - Though telling history through a timeline is one of the oldest imagined uses of hypertext, putting HyperHistory online took some doing. [Wired News]
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- Blender Relaunches as Webzine - Meanwhile, other CD-ROM based zines ponder their options, their markets. [Wired News]
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- Blizzard Takes Online Gaming by Storm - Battle.net is free - and that poses a hefty cost for other online game services. [Wired News]
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- BMI Bot Crawls Web for Unauthorized Tunes - In a first step by the music industry to wrestle with new media, the performing rights organization's 'MusicBot' performs technologic triage. [Wired News]
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- Booting Up Something More Comfortable - Wearable computing proponents gather to exchange ideas, hawk gizmos, and talk fashion. [Wired News]
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- Boston Tech 'Salons' Create Deals and Dialog - Bob Metcalfe, the father of networking, is now acting as the Gertrude Stein of Boston's digerati. [Wired News]
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- Bots Bash Despite Legal Battle - The fourth annual Robot Wars was a smashing success as lawyers gave way to bots armed with weapons like gas-powered circular saws, and bent on each other's destruction. [Wired News]
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- Bowie's Web Oddity: Last-Minute Birthday Bash - Bowie turns 50 on Wednesday - but his webcast party organizers are racing against the clock. [Wired News]
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- Bowling Leagues for the New Millennium - Quake teams come to the SlamSite gaming center wearing "skins" emblazoned with their clan logo. [Wired News]
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- Braindrain at id. Mood 'Dark and Gloomy' - John Romero's new company, Ion, grabs more top talent from id. [Wired News]
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- Breeding the Machine - This book's heroes are great thinkers of history like Leibniz, Hooke, and Darwin - not Charles, but his grandfather Erasmus. [Wired News]
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- British Biz School Opens Silicon Alley Lab - Hoping to give budding multimedia execs a lesson in new-media content creation, the London Business School joins American schools and several veteran companies in New York's digital outpost. [Wired News]
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- BS Detector: Anti-Spam List Won't Work - On one point, spammers and anti-spammers agree: Jerry Wang's ambitious plan to create a global remove list are foolish. [Wired News]
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- BS Detector: Geek Book Reeks of Stunt - Johnny Deep claims to have published the files stolen from more than 100,000 computers, including Bill Gates' personal machine. [Wired News]
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- BS Detector: NaughtyRobot Is Panic Fodder - An Internet spider is causing a stir in Usenet. [Wired News]
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- BS Detector: Prankster Dubbed 'Cyber-Stalker' - The only verified incidents of Sommy's "high-tech" reign of terror involve the telephone. [Wired News]
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- Bugs Bunny, Meet Bozlo Beaver - Warner Bros. embraces togglethis technology to deliver animated characters to desktops. [Wired News]
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- Building a Musical 'Fourth World' - Trumpeter and composer Jon Hassell's works are hybrids of traditional music from around the world with Western forms and modern electronics, forming new musical landscapes. [Wired News]
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- Bullets Fly at Chinese Weapon Park - An hour outside Beijing, the China North International Shooting Range caters to a growing number of leisure-seekers who come to fire assault rifles and rocket launchers. [Wired News]
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- Burn Your Own Beats - Companies doing the online music-distribution dance are shown a new step at the Plug In '97 Conference: Customized CDs without the middleman. [Wired News]
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- Burning Man Artists Plan San Francisco Event - Modified furniture will be hung from an abandoned building in a participatory art celebration that organizers say the cops and fire department encourage. [Wired News]
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- Burning Man Burnout - This year's annual festival in the Nevada desert is expected to be much bigger, and less anarchistic, ideas which have alienated many founders. [Wired News]
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- Burning Man's Burning Question: Got Permit? - With 20,000 technopagans expected for next week's delirious desert fest, organizers have yet to secure land-use permission. [Wired News]
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- Burroughs Pops Online Cherry with Drag Queens - The 83-year-old father of cyberpunk will be making his first online appearance on Friday, in the benefit Psychic Drag Queens Live On the Net. [Wired News]
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- Burroughs Spun a Legacy of Naked Sense - The novelist's admirers converge on the Web to craft tributes and thread discussions about how his cut-ups prefigured the "Interzone" that is the Net. [Wired News]
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- Buying Microsoft a Soul - Steve Silberman tells how Allen Ginsberg, Rosa Parks, and a young art director gave Microsoft a conscience. [Wired News]
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- Buying Microsoft a Soul - How Allen Ginsberg, Rosa Parks, and a young art director gave Microsoft a conscience. [Wired News]
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- Can a Search Engine Make a Good Cartoon? - An animated series featuring orphan avatars battling the likes of Boss Noise and his Spam Boys is in development for Yahoo's kiddie directory. [Wired News]
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- Can Generative Music Carry the Net's Tunes? - A British music tech company is praying its Koan software will make the radical chic of computer-music as prevalent online as Lite FM is in American offices. [Wired News]
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- Can Web Site Have a Life after Leary? - The neuropolitics and psychedelic guru's personal domain was his last hope for immortality. Feeling a moral obligation, his stepson is now reviving the popular but neglected leary.com. [Wired News]
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- Cancer 'Cure' Real or Just Really Expensive? - A Houston judge declared a mistrial, but final judgment for Dr. Burzynski is still to come. Dr. Weil weighs in. [Wired News]
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- Cannes Film Purists Ignore Digital Media - Despite a big money presence by digital behemoths, rarefied Riviera movie buffs have their heads in the sand. [Wired News]
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- Capturing Godzilla - Next summer's monster remake will feature animation driven by actors in real time. [Wired News]
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- Caribbean Clone Lab Offers ET Religion - Valiant Venture, an offshoot of a group that believes humans descended from clones created by extraterrestrials, wants you to make a US$200,000 investment in a new you. [Wired News]
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- Carolina Keyboardist Kicks Out the Bandwidth - Kelani Larethian has never met the musicians he plays with on Firesprung, a CD created over the Internet. [Wired News]
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- Cars for Arts Sake - The inaugural ArtCar WestFest will feature more than 100 wildly adorned and artfully modified cars, objects of a cultural change that, like Burning Man, represent new rituals for new times, say its founders. [Wired News]
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- CD-ROM Pornographer Jacks In to the Web - Pixis Interactive hopes to have crotch-potatoes moaning by modem with its pay-per-play anime sex games, featuring Japanese 'idoru.' [Wired News]
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- CD-ROM Publishers Hang On To Barbie's Skirt - Mattel's success is driving others into the girls' game market. [Wired News]
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- Celebrities without Skin Crawl into Gaming - A new breed of videogames are being built with cinematic expectations. Working out the bugs in the character-generation process is creating interesting experiences - and work for actors. [Wired News]
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- Celebrities, Mob, True Crime, Murder - The Smoking Gun ports provocative Freedom of Information Act documents and other sexy and sleazy materials to the Web. [Wired News]
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- CES Crawler: Among the Sex Machines - This year, 'customization' and 'control' are the porn industry's buzzwords. [Wired News]
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- Changing Office Habits Mean New Desks - The furniture show at the alt.office conference reflects new ways of working, and preparing for that Friday-night rave once the papers are all shuffled out of the living room. [Wired News]
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- Chaos in Britannia: Ultima Faces Protests - Dragons and wizards can't keep builders of the online game from being faced with social dilemmas and uprisings coming from those who've chosen to live in their fantastic world. [Wired News]
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- Charmed by Colloidal Minerals? Get Past the Hype - Dr. Weil believes they're just a multilevel marketing scam with little evidence of any therapeutic benefit. [Wired News]
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- Chemical Brothers Consume Themselves - On tour with everything from the highest-tech prototype sound systems to instruments held together with duct tape, the electronic band with the heavy beats explain their love affair with records, including sampling their own. [Wired News]
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- Chickelodeon - Geraldine Laybourne, who helped bring us Nick at Nite, is now aiming to lighten up Lifetime Television. [Wired News]
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- Christie's Moves West to Lure Cybermoguls - Catering to techno collectors is not easy for the East Coast auction houses. [Wired News]
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- City of Women Poised for Revolution - With free Web-hosting, listservs, and a RealAudio 'radio station,' a pioneering Web community Amazon City is expanding to accommodate the growing number of women online. [Wired News]
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- Click for Flicks: Rentals Debut Online - Reel.com's selection of 35,000 rental titles targets those whom Blockbuster can't satisfy. But will those postage fees be more burdensome than late fees? [Wired News]
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- Clinton to Inaugurate First 'E-March' on AIDS - Emphatically asserting their message that "AIDS is not over," a coalition of community groups is taking its message to Washington - virtually. [Wired News]
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- Coaxing God from the Machine - AI academics, clergy, and theologians gather at MIT to explore the search for the sacred in the silicon. [Wired News]
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- Code Red-Faced - With Drudge imitating current journalism values with such uncanny fidelity, is it any wonder traditional media now vilifies him? [Wired News]
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- Code Warriors Fought Errors Byte by Byte - Irving Reed and Gustave Solomon carved one of the building blocks of the digital domain, but you've never heard of them. [Wired News]
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- CoMA Fest Wants to Wake Up Computer Culture - A group of San Francisco galleries team up this weekend with a computer-museum-without-a-home to stage a new-media festival organizers hope will work to establish the museum's identity and to give a boost to the appreciation of computer art. [Wired News]
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- Competing Civilizations Forge Alliances - The family tree of games sprung from the root of Avalon Hill's board game Civilization is busy making deals and has, so far, avoided a war of succession. [Wired News]
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- Computer Projects Attract Attention at Digital Salon - At the School of Visual Art's 5th annual Digital Salon, a pragmatic reserve was evident in works that were mostly high in content but low in bandwidth. [Wired News]
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- Concentric Imports Continental Gaming - The gaming network partners with European companies to offer its audience European games, but with a decidedly American flavor. [Wired News]
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- Conquest of Faith - A professor takes an intellectual leap from Darwin to '50s sci-fi and Apple evangelism to chart the inventive evolution of American religion in the age of science. [Wired News]
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- Considering the Virtual Museum - A conference at the Louvre studies the end of the crowds and the start of the 'distributed museum.' [Wired News]
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- Content for Sale: New Media's Weakest Link - To bait surfers, you need gripping content. Enter the new-media ed agencies. [Wired News]
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- Contest Rewards Webbed Kids, Encourages Learning - ThinkQuest seeks to bring together students with different levels of techno-savvy and have them build educational Web sites. [Wired News]
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- Copy Culture Is Our Nature - The Culture of the Copy has hit bookstores just in time to feed clone fever. [Wired News]
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- Copyright Groups on the Rights Track - Several organizations team up to create international database tracking song titles. Will a centralized system solve the problem? [Wired News]
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- Could 'Instant Community' Be E-Minds' Killer App? - The Kasparov vs. Deep Blue match has given Electric Minds a much-needed windfall. [Wired News]
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- Crash Test Opera - If it ends in -philia or confronts your phobias, La Fuera dels Baus has probably done it. [Wired News]
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- Crash Video Lands in US - The Cronenberg film that mixes car wrecks and sex and turns Ted Turner's stomach finally makes it to US retail, albeit in several versions. [Wired News]
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- Creative Time Rethinks Wired Art - A 10-piece show debunks digital-art myths under the Brooklyn Bridge. [Wired News]
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- Cruising for Sex Is Popular with Users, Cops - While giving readers advice on where to pick up men all over the world, a Web site rises to the challenge of police surveillance. [Wired News]
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- CU-Heal-Me: Online Therapy Gets Visual - Counselors reach out to the lonely and depressed with a klunky old app. [Wired News]
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- Cult Suicide Developments - How did a former music professor and an amateur astronomer steer their cult into computing? A few hints surface. [Wired News]
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- Cult Suicide Developments - The latest reports emerging from northern San Diego County, as the nation's media descends on the site of the largest mass suicide in US history. [Wired News]
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- Cult Suicide Developments - Deputies who first investigated the scene of the mass suicide give their account the tragic discovery. [Wired News]
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- Cult Suicide Update - The latest reports emerging from northern San Diego County as the nation's media descends on the site of the largest mass suicide in US history. [Wired News]
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- Cultists Claimed They Were Monks - Members told at least one Web-design client that they were monks working with former drug addicts. [Wired News]
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- Cyber Angels' Antiporn Database Dies - The failure of the child-porn database highlights concerns about netizens taking matters into their own hands. [Wired News]
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- Cyberculturists Crack Academia - The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies serves as a gathering place for cyber-gazing academics. [Wired News]
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- Cyberfest Celebrates HAL in Urbana - Arthur C. Clarke makes a satellite appearance from Sri Lanka for HAL's birthday party. [Wired News]
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- Cyberhippies Beat Cyberpunks into Space - A Hugo-nominated - and acid-fueled - sci-fi saga that blasted off in 1970 has finally made it into the digital domain. [Wired News]
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- Cyborg Pig Rendered in Real Time - Brilliant Digital Entertainment pushes interactive storytelling with on-the-fly imaging. [Wired News]
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- Cyborg Wannabes to Hold Hootenanny - The Extropian thinkfest will still feature visionaries exploring possible futures, but this year's confab will be more reserved, even investment-minded. [Wired News]
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- Cyborg Weaves Web into Fashions - Each garment features a URL that directs wearers to a site that hawks the company's streetwear. [Wired News]
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- Cyborganic CEO Warns of Crisis - A note sent Wednesday to members of the influential ISP says lack of financing may throw Cyborganic's future into peril. [Wired News]
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- Cyclops Brings Jerkiness to Computer Animation - A new camera could make that artificially smooth motion in computer animation a thing of the past. [Wired News]
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- Déja Fu: It's Bruce Lee TV - USA is developing a series that channels the late martial-arts superstar via computer imagery. [Wired News]
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- Dangerously High Definition - Cameraman Marc Pingry, obsessed with the perfect shot, embraces high-tech and high-risk adventure. [Wired News]
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- Dead to Rise at Opening of Interactive Museum - The Grateful Dead are raising funds to build Terrapin Station, 'equal parts interactive museum, sensory playground, and social/cultural laboratory.' A New Year's Eve reunion concert is scheduled for the 1999 opening. [Wired News]
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- Dead Wordsmith to Jam for Web Site - DeadNet needs money, and Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter is going to help with a benefit show. [Wired News]
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- Death by Broderbund - The Last Express is an animated mystery game with several hooks. In Street Cred. [Wired News]
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- Death Culture Thrives in Online Gaming - The Deathmatch Manifesto portrays the culture of players driven to kill each other - and teaches you to partake. [Wired News]
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- Death Metal: Born-Again Heavy Metal - Heavy metal has lost its glamour, and its mainstream support. What's left is far more interesting: An extremist successor driven by romantic yearnings and nihilism. [Wired News]
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- Death of Low Res Yields Two New Film Fests - ResFest and D.Film are born in the wake of the Low Res Film Festival - the two founders couldn't agree. [Wired News]
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- Death of News Site Revives News War - An online journalism face-off in Houston shakes the one-paper town. [Wired News]
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- Dee Snider Plays Twisted Netster Onscreen - Former Twisted Sister frontman continues his over-the-top career path, this time writing, producing, and starring in a movie about a Net-based serial killer. [Wired News]
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- Deep Blue Buffs Up Shallow Play - After a little tinkering, IBM's chess-playing supercomputer can match a grandmaster like Garry Kasparov four moves into the future - but only about half the time. [Wired News]
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- Deeply Dylan - The official Bob Dylan Web site, launched by his record company and created by fans with a high Net profile, delivers best of "official" and "unofficial" Dylan. [Wired News]
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- Desert Storm - In Black Rock City, events, crowds, and dust devils appear and disappear with the same disarming speed for Michael Murphy. [Wired News]
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- Designers Anxious, Look to Range of Experts - In an era when artists are worried about the "disappearance of print," divining the future will be a popular concern at a New Orleans design conference. [Wired News]
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- Designers Fuzzy about Blurring Boundaries - Speakers at the Industrial Designers Society of America's national convention urge interdisciplinary mingling. [Wired News]
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- Designing for Living - The global village, coursing with communal electric cars and computers that don't look like computers, is explored by designers at this weekend's Humane Village Congress. [Wired News]
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- Diana's Funeral, Part I: The Mourning After - What can anybody add to the electronic avalanche of commentary, posturing, analysis, hand-wringing, outrage, and debate that poured forth all weekend long on cable, the Net, radio, and commercial TV? [Wired News]
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- DIG IT Displays Artists' Digital Ambivalence - A San Francisco gallery presents the creations of those immersed in day-to-day digitalia [Wired News]
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- Digifilm's Shot at Vitality - The onedotzero festival hopes subtlety and abstraction - not shiny colors and wireframe 3-Ds - will help the experimental genre make a mark on the mainstream marquee. [Wired News]
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- Digilantes Display Their Low-Fi Struggle - With Commodore Amigas, Video Toasters, and 'tractor feet,' an exhibition wants to tell the fugitive history of LA digital artists. [Wired News]
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- Digital Art Hits Wall (Street) - A financial-district art series takes over a building lobby with "video kinesis," CD-ROMs, and work from Lucent's R D lab. [Wired News]
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- Digital Art Show Revives Ancient Macs - The MacClassic exhibit explores the (obsolete) materials of computer art - and questions the medium's supposed lack of physicality. [Wired News]
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- Digital Arts Come Out Down Under - English artist Paul Brown has found support for making generative art in Brisbane, Australia, where dancers, comedians, actors, video and audio artists, and animators gather for the E-Media festival. [Wired News]
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- Digital Signpost at a Sexual Crossroads - Hoping to provide a clear, anonymous guide to sexual orientation, Alltogether.com features questions and answers hosted by diverse and interesting - if not yet perfect - virtual guides. [Wired News]
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- Digital Storyfest Finds Heart among Bits - Narrative and the Web will be the focus of this fall's Digital Storytelling Festival. [Wired News]
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- Digital-Design Icon Gets Its Due in Exhibition - A museum exhibit documenting an influential design house's work highlights the auspicious mix of its artfulness, technology, and growing business acumen. [Wired News]
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- Diller Plans War on Perfectly Coiffed TV News - The genius of Fox Television and the Home Shopping Network says it's time to smash the mold of talking blond heads. He plans 11 new all-local, all-news stations, complete with rough edges. [Wired News]
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- Disaffected Fans Cheer D&D Buyout - The '80s phenomenon had stagnated under producer TSR and may get a boost from new owners Wizards of the Coast. [Wired News]
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- Discovering the Paparazzo Within, Part I - Journalists and society are unhappily codependent, at odds and cross-purposes, but bound together for life. [Wired News]
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- Discovering the Paparazzo Within, Part II - The paparazzi deserve a fairer, cooler, and more considered hearing than their righteous journalistic colleagues or the public have yet been willing to give them. [Wired News]
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- Discovery Launches Istanbul Across Platforms - The Planet Explorer site is the first step in Discovery's multimedia content strategy. Some "ubiquitous promotion" is expected. [Wired News]
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- Disney Goes for VR and a Touch of Violence - With broadswords and pitch-and-roll simulators, the company takes spinning teacups one better and hands users the controls. But don't expect blood. It's still a family-friendly world, after all. [Wired News]
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- Disney Launches Smallfry World on Web, MSN - The long-awaited kids' service goes into beta Monday, but competition is just around the corner. [Wired News]
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- Disney Separates Web, Pushes Family Brand - Emphasizing kids' safety and parental comfort, the online transformation will take inspiration from AOL, but give parents more control. [Wired News]
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- Distribution Revolution Will Be Televised - The Independent's Day marathon coordinates with 18 cable-access channels nationwide to broadcast undistributed films. [Wired News]
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- DIY Comic Goes to Hollywood - InVision Entertainment animates self-published comic and sets it to music by Bob (Schoolhouse Rock) Dorough. [Wired News]
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- DJ in a Box - The new Mixman CD-ROM gives you a chance to explore your own taste, talent, and instincts - and the ability to do it just like the big boys. [Wired News]
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- Do and Ti's Long, Strange Trip Toward Death - The leaders of the Heaven's Gate cult met in a mental hospital. Their two-decades-plus wanderings drew media attention and a small flock of disciples. [Wired News]
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- Do Girls Want Gloss? - A new webzine aimed at teen girls offers the same old mix of models, boys, and clothes. Some wonder how that bodes for alternative content sites that up until now have been the demographic's dominant online presence. [Wired News]
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- Do-It-Yourself Mafia - The Mob is losing market share to online con men and dealers. Where are the Feds when you need 'em? [Wired News]
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- Documentary Shows Web as Hall of Mirrors - Homepage films the Web's king of self-examination, Justin Hall, and in the process asks questions about the blurry lines between surveillance and documentation. [Wired News]
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- Doing the Time Warp, in Digital Camp - The musical that refused to die continues to spawn mutant projects. This time it's the Interactive Rocky Horror Show videogame. [Wired News]
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- Domain-Name Hunter Practices Corporate Charity - In a rare form of Net altruism, Scott Banister collects techie domain names, only to give them away to the rightful owners - you just have to ask nice. [Wired News]
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- Doo-Doo Flies over Talking Turd - Spumco claims South Park pinched a loaf of ideas from its comic creations. [Wired News]
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- Dream Weaver - Jeremy Taylor, America Online's dream expert, has been combing through other people's dreams for more than 25 years. [Wired News]
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- Dreaming in Namespace - Steve Silberman wonders, whether in a perfect world, would you be jill@coolchick.vain or jim@unix.geek? [Wired News]
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- Drilling Begins at The Mining Company - Another attempt at human-filtering the Net is set for launch. [Wired News]
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- Drink of the Week: The Jack Rose - A drink with a deep-laid taste, the look of a rose, but the bite of Jersey lightning. [Wired News]
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- Drive-In, Moscow Style - Imagine a self-conscious combination of The Magnificent Seven, The Road Warrior, and Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns all crammed into one film: The Wild East [Wired News]
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- Drudge Flash: Deng's Bizarre US Eulogy - The Chinese leader dies, and suddenly the media are painting him as a global hero. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Flash: Evita Eclipses Clinton - The Golden Globe Awards beat out the Clinton gala 2 to 1. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Flash: Fox Signs Olympic Guard - Six figures buys the life stories of erstwhile bombing suspect Richard Jewell, his mama, and his lawyers. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Flash: Hillary Gets Grammy Nod - The first lady is up against fellow liberals Lauren Bacall, Garrison Keillor, Edward Asner, and Ellen Burstyn in the best spoken-word or non-musical album category. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Flash: NASA to Launch Secret Rocket - A dry run for launching 72 pounds of radioactive plutonium into space is set for Sunday. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Flash: Networks Win Back a Sunday - For the first time in recent memory, the big three networks pulled in more than 60 percent of the available audience during prime hours. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Flash: Star Wars Strikes Again - Fans endure freezing temps and scalpers' rates - all for the Force. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood - Media Awaits O. J. Meltdown Redux - LA's warm winter will only get hotter when the media's O. J. obsession boils over with a civil-court verdict, says Matt Drudge. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: ABC's 25 Minutes of 3-D Fame - Columnist Matt Drudge says ABC's hyped 3-D week will amount to less than 25 minutes of 3-D enhanced action throughout the entire week. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: ABC's 3-D Stunt - Anything to stop audience deterioration - but will the news shows cooperate? [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Communications Collapse '97 - Bad weather pushes people online, but the phone lines can't take it. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: David Lynch's Mindtrip - 'He's put on at least 50 pounds since the recess,' worried a Newt-friendly emailer in a message labeled confidential and urgent. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: DreamWorks' Arsenio Dropped - ABC yanks Arsenio, adding to the woes at DreamWorks' troubled TV unit. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Forbes Launches Campaign 2000 - In a preemptive strike, GOP presidential hopeful Steve Forbes begins another campaign. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Force Is with Ewan McGregor - George Lucas courting Trainspotting's Ewan Mcgregor for Obi-Wan Kenobi role in Star Wars prequels. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Foreign Film Market Soars - Devil's Own, starring Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt, does better abroad than at home in simultaneous release. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Frasier and the President - Kelsey Grammer tells GQ that Bill Clinton got plastic surgery from a doctor who augmented a girlfriend's breasts. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Godzilla Does New York - Columnist Matt Drudge on monster film, recovery television, and Anthony Lake, mystery man. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Is Jennings Next? - Rumors at ABC question how long Jennings will remain as anchor. Diane Sawyer's contract is up for renewal. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: NBC's Commercial-Free Win - The uninterrupted airing of Schindler's List attracted more viewers as the night wore on. Will networks try to repeat NBC's success? [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Networks Lose in February Sweeps - The pressure is on in Broadcast Row to jack up ratings. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: O. J.-Clinton Flop Stuns Nets - Shocked networks are trying to figure out why so few people tuned in for the State of the Union/civil trial verdicts combo. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Oscar Fever - On Tuesday began the furious illness that consumes the entire town - ending in seizure, this year at the Shrine Auditorium on 24 March. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Oscars Snub Larry Flynt - The porn magnate and bio-pic subject is furious to find he's not getting a ticket to Monday's festivities. Is this the Academy's form of censorship? [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Porn Bio-Pic Pushes Limits - Can Hollywood handle a 13-inch penis? The test screening of John Holmes' most public of parts reveals some hints. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Spy Satellites for Rent - Just imagine what the National Enquirer/Hard Copy snitches will do with the power of the spy sat toy [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Star Wars to Top ET - Star Wars will surpass the all-time domestic grosser, ET, sometime in the next two weeks. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Steinem May Picket Oscars - People vs. Larry Flynt is an Oscar nominee, and feminist Gloria Steinem is protesting. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Stern May Star in Batman 5 - Radio jock Howard Stern is on the short list to star in the Warner Bros. film Batman 5 - as the villainous Scarecrow. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: The Galaxy According to Gates - Gates on the baby, Gates on romance, Gates on the creation of man: Time indulges in a delightful mix of future talk and celebrity stalk. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: The LA/DC Dilemma - How to do the Golden Globes and still make the inauguration. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: The President Slips - Talk-radio speculations ran wild after the president fell on Thursday night. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Time Warner Touts Rosie - Rosie O'Donnell made the covers of People, Entertainment Weekly, and Time last week - pay no nevermind to the fact that her show is produced by Time Warner, parent of said mags. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Titanic Budget Bloats - The new James Cameron movie could end up costing a staggering US$225 million - or more than $2 million a minute. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Voices Come Calling - Columnist Matt Drudge on frantic tips, jaundiced journalism, and Nixon versus Clinton. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Why Starr Quit Whitewater - Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr's wife couldn't take the pressure of intense public scrutiny. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Will Volcano Sell? - It's another one of those $100 million bets. And industry talk all week has been about how the film "isn't tracking well." [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Yeltsin Rumors Spread - The ailing Russian president was declared dead in Britain's House of Commons. [Wired News]
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- Drudge New Year: High Times and Headline Hype - Columnist Matt Drudge on the first dose of '97 news, Renaissance elites, G. Gordon's grief, and other right-wing party animals. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Oscars: And the Ratings Are ... Weak - New Nielsen numbers show Monday night's Oscars to have the second-lowest ratings in the TV age. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Report: Gingrich Caught on Cell Phone - A tape of a cellular phone call has House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Republicans joking about how to spin Gingrich's ethics crisis. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Sneak: Clinton Pushes for CNN in Cuba - Matt Drudge's sneak preview of top morning news says the president is close to approving a CNN bureau in Cuba. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Sneak: CNN May Sue for Havana Office - If CNN can't open a Cuba office via the Trading with the Enemy legislation, it's going to the courts. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Sneak: Did Maggie Take a Check? - Matt Drudge's sneak preview of top morning news has the latest on Maggie Williams, Johnny Chung, Howard Stern, and Cronkite versus Robertson. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Sneak: McDougal Talks, Delays Sentence - Matt Drudge's sneak preview of morning papers says prosecutors want more time to corroborate information McDougal has given them. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Sneak: Sony Eyeing James Bond - But can John Calley imagine the media firestorm that would flare over the notion of super-British Bond being owned by the Japanese? [Wired News]
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- Drudge Sneak: The Real-Life Star Wars Fighter - In a blur of box-office and actual military strategy, the Pentagon is creating a military spaceplane. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Sneak: Vader May Draw $15 Million - Fox is hoping for at least $15 million from the relaunched 'Star Wars' this weekend, and as much as $25 million. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Sneak: White House Blames British Press - Right-wing think tanks have kept the British press on a diet of conspiracy and innuendo, a White House report claims. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: Chinese Officials OK'd Bribes - The FBI has evidence that Chinese officials first approved plans in 1995 to buy influence in the United States - and that the scheme is ongoing. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: Clinton and Nudity - Matt Drudge tracks the Clintons vacationing in a sunny house with a view of the ocean and butt-naked tourists. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: Clinton v. Jones - Swing-voting Justice Anthony Kennedy appeared to pour cold water on Paula Jones' case. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: Clinton's Overnight Bash - Ted Turner is reportedly furious that the White House released his name as a Clinton overnight guest, reinforcing the notion that CNN is liberal-friendly from the top down. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: Clintons Don't Disco - Scenes and gossip from the first family's inaugural bash. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: Did Big Brother Raise Funds? - The White House says it didn't use the computer for fund raising. The LA Times says otherwise. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: Did Clinton Lie Under Oath? - James McDougal had his prison term trimmed to three years in exchange for providing new details that allegedly incriminate President Clinton. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: Dodd's Chinese Connection - Despite repeated denials from the senator, a source says the Connecticut Democrat was involved in soliciting a US$50,000 contribution for John Huang. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: Fading Nets Cry Foul - Networks are asking the FCC to abandon rules preventing a company from owning more than one TV station in a market, columnist Matt Drudge says. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: Gingrich's Cell-Phone Snafu - The House Speaker learns why you shouldn't have delicate political conversations on cell phones. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: Hillary and the Database Scandal - Hillary Clinton may have to testify before a congressional hearing on illegal uses of Whitehouse database. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: McDermott's Moment - "We have a man who is in complete denial of his crime," a well-placed Hill source tells the Drudge Report. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: New DC Fund-Raising Scandal - Columnist Matt Drudge's sneak preview of top morning stories uncovers a new DNC fund-raising scandal involving the Chinese Embassy. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: Was Congress Bribed? - DC is abuzz with an FBI investigation of Chinese reps trying to buy influence in Congress. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: Will Gates Snap Up WSJ? - Discreet talk inside the WSJ Washington bureau has Gates sniffing around for a newspaper. [Wired News]
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- Drudge, AOL Hit with $30 Million Libel Suit - The Net's own gossip columnist said he'd been had after publishing a rumor that presidential aide Sidney Blumenthal had abused his wife. Now both he and host America Online are facing a big-time suit. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: 'World Army' to March on US Soil - Troops from the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, and elsewhere will test the viability of the Patriot, Hawk, and Stinger missile systems in a massive desert exercise. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: ABC Tumbles with Sweeps - ABC Entertainment president Jamie Tarses may soon get a chaperon - very soon. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Bill Gates' $860 Million Day - The Microsoft chief scored big when the stock market roared higher on Tuesday, but in Redmond, such bonanzas go virtually unnoticed. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: CNN Anchors for Lost World - No one will confirm it, but anchor Bernie Shaw has a Lost World cameo as a CNN anchor. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Ellen's Outing Pulls in Ratings - About 42 million viewers tuned in for the telling: Yes, Ellen DeGeneres' TV character is gay. And for ABC, that's absolutely fabulous. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: FBI's Shapiro Set to Resign - The Republicans in Congress are hungry for a catch - but the FBI counsel's exit should satiate them. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Gore to Dine at Gates' Techno Mansion - A tech summit brings a host of luminaries to make speeches and gaze at the House that Bill's Building. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Grease is the McMovie Word - Hollywood has a strange symbiosis with fast food that fills you up but leaves you queasy. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Harrison Ford Holds Up the Titanic - Harrison Ford turned up the pressure when he learned that Paramount had rescheduled Titanic for release during the weekend of 25 July - the same weekend as his Air Force One. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Internet President Finally Logs On - On Saturday, the president - a computer illiterate with poor typing skills - will have his own PC installed in the Oval Office and spend the afternoon hitting Web hot spots. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Lost World's Killer Weekend - Spielberg proves you can make back cost in 100 hours. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: McVeigh's Lawyer Blasts Dallas Paper - Matt Drudge reports on the reaction to the Dallas Morning News' decision to post a controversial story on the Net before a judge could decide on blocking its publication. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Michael Huffington Does Cannes - No couple blurs show biz and politics like the Huffingtons. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Microsoft Outbids AOL? - Ohio rumors have MS lawyers sniffing out CompuServe, prepared to double AOL's offer. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Murdoch Jr. a 21st Century Media Hunk - The 25-year-old heir apparent to the Rupert Murdoch empire made news this week when his father handed him the executive chairmanship of News Ltd. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Murdoch on the Hill Again - The News Corp. chief goes to a Senate committee with his plan to take local TV stations nationwide. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Newspapers Down But Not Out - A third of the nation's papers actually gained in circulation in the past six months. Plus, ABC's Jamie Tarses, O. J. and Whitewater books, and the Alan Smithee flap. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Radio Talk Show Linked to Suicides - The nationally syndicated talk-radio show Overnight with Art Bell may have provided inspiration for the mass suicide date. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Rush Limbaugh Launches on Net - Limbaugh's new owner launched his program on two RealAudio channels this week. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Sinatra Falling Short in Congress - Al D'Amato wants to honor Ol' Blue Eyes, but the singer's reputed Mafia ties are a problem for some House members. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Spielberg's Dinosaurs in San Diego? - Matt Drudge on Steven Spielberg's variations on the Lost World plot that Michael Crichton wrote in his book. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Spielberg's Violence, Times' Gossip - Parents may balk at Lost World, but the kids will want in. Meanwhile, The New York Times goes for gossip. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Suicide Was Planned Long Ago - Authorities are in possession of a detailed manifesto by the group's leader, believed to be a 25-year-old male, that explains the reasons for suicide. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Who Leaked Nuke Ship Info? - Someone with access to classified CIA reports on the "combat-ready" nature of Russian nuclear vessels has some loose lips - and what's being told to a Washington Times reporter has the potential to sink more than ships. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: X-Files Film Gets Fox OK - The trades show the studio flashing the green light. Will lead actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson get their $10 mil apiece? [Wired News]
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- Dune Redux - for Sci-Fi Miniseries - The Sci-Fi Channel will make Frank Herbert's cult novel into a miniseries. [Wired News]
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- DVD 'Magazine' Gives Short Films a Home - The Short Cinema Journal hopes format's high resolution and easy access will prove to be the perfect format for short films. [Wired News]
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- DVD Filter Gives Parents Final Cut - The maker of "content-customization" software has Oscar in his eyes, but some filmmakers question the morality and legality of having others alter their work to suit tastes. [Wired News]
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- Dylan Goes Electronic - Sony has signed Citadel Underground editor Dan Levy to showcase rarities, recordings, and influences on bobdylan.com, the first official site. [Wired News]
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- E-Minders Seek Shelter - Members of Electric Minds are weighing several offers to give their troubled young community a new home. [Wired News]
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- Earning from Others' Mistakes - Several Web sites are taking advantage of the inevitable typos, serving up ads - and even claiming to make money for the homeless. [Wired News]
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- EarthLink Restricts Mail-Server Access - The ISP's war against spammers is chalking up some collateral casualties: people who simply like having remote access. [Wired News]
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- Earthlink Spanks Ebola Monkey Bingo Author - A developer claims a false virus warning about his game got him suspended by Earthlink. The ISP says it was his bad manners. [Wired News]
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- East Coast Consortium Heats Up FX War - A group of small New York digital-effects studios use the Net to fight the brain-drain toward California and its behemoth FX houses. [Wired News]
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- Ebon Fisher Explores Subversive Play - The New York art group Sandbox takes its exploration of the medium-specific nature of art to the Web. [Wired News]
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- Effects Process Spawns Digital Diplomacy - Like other effects-laden flicks, the dark summer picture relied on many studios. Merging the diverse work required more than just technical skills. [Wired News]
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- Electronic Art Breaks Local Fair Boundary - A Siggraph-backed display at the Sausalito Arts Festival hopes to erase the conceptual distance between computer-generated art and its wall-art-and-baubles cousins. [Wired News]
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- Electronic Art Grabs Public Eye - The German art fair Documenta X features meatspace and cyberspace exhibits. Guess which one has some of the show's more exciting exhibits. [Wired News]
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- Electronic Arts Tours Flight Trailer - The flight-sim-maker, with a little help from AT T, attempts to enlarge military gaming with a mobile demo at airshows. [Wired News]
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- Electronic Music, Meet the Recording Industry - Big labels are determined to take advantage of the vibrant youth culture that's gravitated toward electronic music. But with a format that doesn't fit their expectations, they're just not quite sure how to do it. [Wired News]
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- Elites Sideswipe Drudge - The top name in Net non-journalism has a head-on collision with Michael Kinsley and The New York Times' Todd Purdum. Damage, however, was minor. [Wired News]
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- Emmycasters Work in Media Niche - Ironlight Digital wants to give netsurfers a backstage, watch-the-key-grip's-handiwork view in advance of the awards telecast, a move that straddles the feared gap between TV and the Internet. [Wired News]
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- En Vogue - Women's magazines occupy a special niche in the cluttered infoscape of modern media. So what's a modern girl to do? Read Bust, of course. [Wired News]
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- Encyclopedia Britannica Embraces Online Search - The stalwart of accumulated knowledge and guilty parents has been trying to find its place in the Information Age. Building its brand with an online directory is the latest attempt. [Wired News]
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- EstroNet Pumps Out 'Girl Culture' - Showstring indie zines are banding together with funded sites to prove that sisters are doing it for themselves. [Wired News]
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- Evasion of Internet World Body Snatchers - Mark Frauenfelder flees flaks in frightful search for something worthwhile at the LA Convention Center. [Wired News]
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- Every Picture Can Tell a Lie - Clearly 'photofiction' is potentially provocative even as an art form. As a new journalistic tool, though, it is highly suspect. [Wired News]
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- Everything Old is Multimedia - Public Works uses multiple obsolete technologies to create a barrage of moving pictures and processed sounds that comment on commodification of culture and militarization of society with rare depth. [Wired News]
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- Everything Old Is News Again - A news museum, opening Friday, hopes to rescue the reputation of today's journalists with historical credence. [Wired News]
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- Everything You Know Is Wrong - How DisInformation and other lefty DIY sites offer tours of Net subculture. [Wired News]
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- Eword: Diller's Drama - Barry Diller, owner of the Home Shopping Network, has taken a hint from his famous network by buying the USA Network and the Sci-Fi Channel. [Wired News]
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- Eword: Genndy's Laboratory - With Dexter's Laboratory, the madcap adventures of an underage mad scientist and his guinea-pig sister, Russian emigre animator Genndy Tartakovsky has a hit on his hands. [Wired News]
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- Eword: Sage of Subversion - This online performance artist uses guerrilla tactics to overturn capitalist ideals. [Wired News]
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- Eword: The Music Pirates - MP3 audio technology has spawned a new generation of copycat criminals. But what's the crime in meeting the future on its own terms? [Wired News]
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- Excrement on Main Street: Arts and Crap Abound - Anyone can set up shop and sell their handmade wares on the Web. Unfortunately, a lot of folks do, and a lot of the stuff reeks. [Wired News]
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- Experimental Browser Maps Web's Words - Stalker, while hardly ready for prime time, points to a future when surfing the Web isn't determined by Microsoft or Netscape's ideas of what you should see, or how you should see it. [Wired News]
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- Exposing the Unknown Artists - A new online magazine functions as a resource center, providing advice and contacts in the art world, including agents, record labels, and grant resources. [Wired News]
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- Ezine Publishers Get Pushy - Headliner Underground is a browser plug-in that pushes headlines from ezines, bringing alternative content to the meme-of-the-moment landscape. [Wired News]
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- Face the Muzak - The company is leaping into the future - and cyberspace - with RealAudio promotional samples. In Scans. [Wired News]
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- Fan Captures History of Games' Early Creators - A self-published book-on-disc explores the lives and motivations of 28 designers of classic videogames - like why crafting Defender and Robotron beats studying rats' pubic hair. [Wired News]
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- Fans Mourn Death of The Spot - The cancellation of the troubled soap-opera site was like losing a friend, say regulars. [Wired News]
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- Farewell, Junkie Godfather - R.U. Sirius pays tribute to William S. Burroughs as he is mourned by the same culture that was shaped, defiled, and bettered by his writings. [Wired News]
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- Feel the Force? Don't Try It in Mono - Not all theaters are showing the spiffed-up Empire with the full force of sound. So you may miss out on that Niagara roar in Vader's voice. [Wired News]
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- Ferrari Give-Away Drives Quake Contestants - The id co-pilot wants to give something back to the players who put his success on the splatterfest fast track. Gamers say the tourney won't compromise Quake's original, bullying-for-its-own-sake appeal. [Wired News]
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- Festival d'Automne Takes Stage to Web - The mere existence of a Web site for the admired performing-arts festival was a shock to many Web-shy French. But the Web may become a perfect addition to the groundbreaking festival, whose organizers view art as information. [Wired News]
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- Film Financiers Undaunted by Destiny's Fate - An indie filmmaker's questionable attempt at raising money online may have run into trouble, but others are seeking financing via the Net. [Wired News]
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- Filmmaker Becomes 'Cyber Terrorist' - Kind Of - The director of Sex and Killing says he won't give up the domain name to indie guru John Pierson's production company until Pierson reads his script. Pierson milks the opportunity. [Wired News]
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- Filmmaker Dances around Sundance Rejection - The man behind Hang Your Dog in the Wind prepares to crash Park City's party with a second alternative to Sundance: Slumdance. [Wired News]
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- Filmmaker Probes Millennial Change of Life - In Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, the tension between the old, familiar world, and the coming robotic future is examined by documentary iconoclast Errol Morris. [Wired News]
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- Filmmakers Battle with Studios over Rights - Piracy and encryption aren't worrying Hollywood - yet. Filmmakers and studios lock horns over who owns what. [Wired News]
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- Films on Fire - Sex and Zen authors Stefan Hammond and Mike Wilkins help us remember 1996 as the year Hong Kong action films stormed the Western world. [Wired News]
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- Financial Trauma Spurs Drama of AMCY Plea - After months upheaval, the creator of The Spot begs fans for help. [Wired News]
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- Finding China's Radical Artists - MOMA's video and film curator goes public with a Web site documenting her trip to China, where she identifies a 'Cartoon Generation' of new Chinese artists. [Wired News]
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- Fire Your Agent and Jack Into the Net - Drawing on the spirit of their punk predecessors, today's independent bands are using the Internet to update their DIY resources. [Wired News]
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- Fish4It Finds Tires, Pearls - A new serendipitous search engine wants to save you from getting drowned in the sea of sites. [Wired News]
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- Flecks of Truth Shoot to Uncommon Extremes - Icons of harshly alternative culture gathered to party and preach at the Expo of the Extreme. The stranger-than-thou crowd drew in many old-timers, but won few converts. [Wired News]
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- Flogging Tetherballs in Cyberspace - On tour promoting his new book, Mark Leyner is keeping a daily journal, posting notes from his travels and audio from his readings. [Wired News]
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- For Black Colleges, It's Get Wired or Wither - The Diversity Initiative highlights a high-stakes battleground: The power of access and the future of black colleges in America. [Wired News]
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- For Sacks, Cyberspace Is a Colorblind Island - Oliver Sacks gets out of the clinic and onto an island. He's returned with a book of essays, and an impression of the disabled helping each other to cope, to learn, to advance. [Wired News]
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- Four11 'Loophole' Breaches Yahoo Privacy - Yahoo tries to protect users' privacy, but ends up giving away their addresses instead. [Wired News]
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- Fragging for Profit - TEN's Professional Gamers League hopes to organize videogames into sports events boasting networked competition and big money prizes. [Wired News]
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- France's Day of Music and Chaos - The annual F te de la musique is an occasion for ad hoc concert hall performances, chirpy barroom gigs, suburban raps, and urban improvs. A live video stream will help keep you tuned in. [Wired News]
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- Frankfurt Book Fair Has Deep Roots, Techno Leanings - Martin Luther sold his writings here; now G nter Grass is being feted with a 23-CD release of The Tin Drum. Our coverage of the book world's most important gathering begins. [Wired News]
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- Free School Web Sites Spark Controversy - What's the value of unrequested and unofficial fill-in-the-blank sites? Some educators want to know. [Wired News]
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- Free Stuff! Yeah, Right. - Consumers are so flushed with purchasing zeal they can't tell the difference between opportunity and fantasy. [Wired News]
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- Free Web Space Awaits Schools - Family Education Network and the American School Directory are offering sites for American school districts. It's now up to parents and schools to fill them with meaningful content. [Wired News]
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- French Videogame History Pushes Economics - The author suggests that the Pong and Doom industry, if given a boost, could cure France's economic malaise. [Wired News]
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- From a Small Screen to the Small Screen - With access to 'definitely pre-alpha' animation software, an ordinary Power Mac and a far-flung crew, the producer of Planetary Traveler pulls off the first full-length film completely made on the desktop. [Wired News]
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- From Files to Flotsam, Apple Bequeaths Its Past - In a nod to a common history as a shaper of Silicon Valley, Stanford University receives a huge collection of historic corporate materials and promotional doodads. [Wired News]
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- Fujitsu's Bird Brain Hints at Future of AI - Virtual pets are cute and may perform the same function as real ones, but are they the holy grail? [Wired News]
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- Fuzzy Logicians Get Tech Oscar - An ILM team will receive an Oscar this Saturday for its 'fur systems solutions' - soon to appear in the Star Wars prequels. [Wired News]
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- g.o.d Wants to Help Developers Help Themselves - After helping to found id Software and ION Storm, Mike Wilson is starting a game developer's co-op, which he hopes will more fairly give credit - as well as fame and fortune - where it's due. [Wired News]
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- Game Boy Creator Killed - Gumpei Yokoi helped transform Nintendo from a 100-year-old maker of card games into a giant of the videogame industry. [Wired News]
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- Game Developers Play with Hardware Types - The Video Electronics Standards Association, which tries to create standards for all the hardware behind games, is trying to work more closely with the Computer Game Developers Association. [Wired News]
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- GameGirlz Turns Industry On to Female Gamers - A new webzine hopes to even the score by encouraging girls to get involved in videogaming, on the screen and in the boardroom. [Wired News]
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- Gamers Claim AOL Is Playing Bait-and-Switch - Three popular role-playing games are being pulled, as the online service revamps its "premium" game pricing. Gamers say AOL is changing the rules unfairly and are organizing protests. [Wired News]
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- Gamers Eye HDTV Market - Creators of digital worlds for games adapt their skills to high-definition TV, producing digital shows with an immersive, 3-D feel. [Wired News]
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- Gamers Unite to Share Traffic - and Profit - A new network of quality home-grown sites hopes to pool readers and lure advertisers. [Wired News]
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- Gamers, Choose Your League - The Professional Gamers League and the Cyberathlete Professional League are hoping to take videogames to spectators. Also: Linked PCs form the basis of new giant gaming arcade. [Wired News]
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- GameWorks Seattle: One Month after Launch - The "Interactive Theme Park" wants to bring videogames to adults around the world. Wired News visits the Seattle flagship after they've had time to settle in. [Wired News]
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- Gaming Greats' Greatest Flops - A giant, historical list of computer game designers and their creations reveals some surprising skeletons in the pixelated closet. [Wired News]
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- Gang Site Helps Cops, Kids, and Sociologists - When cops want information on gang culture, they turn to Janet Hethorn's Web site. [Wired News]
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- Gay Site Rubs Discover Card's Nose in Snub - The founder of the heavily hunky Badpuppy decries "sexual censorship" of having his merchant status revoked and calls for a boycott. [Wired News]
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- Gay.Net Launch Challenges AOL - A new site strives to create an online community where "your lifestyle is not being marginalized by the corporate policies of America Online." [Wired News]
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- Geek Backtalk: Part I - Readers' responses to Katz's geek series question labels, elitism, politics, and nerds. [Wired News]
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- Geek Backtalk: Part II - Readers' responses to Katz's geek series question labels, elitism, politics, and nerds. [Wired News]
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- Generation Net - Baby Busters build their generation's identity on the Net. [Wired News]
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- Genetic Avatars and Lip-Synching Effects - Digital effects pioneer James Cameron's upcoming project, the futuristic action film Avatar, stars no fewer than a dozen computer-generated thespians. [Wired News]
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- Genetically Engineered Food? You Should Know - Genetic engineering increases the food supply, but be aware of the risks. [Wired News]
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- Geocities Censors Coop's Nude Succubi - The ISP has taken down a page honoring cartoon pop artist Chris Cooper, aka Coop. [Wired News]
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- Ginsberg: A Web unto Himself - Steve Silberman reflects on the late poet's power to mobilize a global community - without a Net. [Wired News]
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- Girl Games Leaps from CD to AM - Not your usual drive-time fare - the multimedia edutainer is developing radio for an elusive niche. [Wired News]
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- Girls School Seeks to Overcome Tech Gender Gap - Planning to open in 1998, a Silicon Valley middle school for girls will attempt to create a space in which female students will be given space to blossom in technical fields and hard science. [Wired News]
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- Godard, Burroughs Join 'Network Conspiracy' - Tim Franklin wants his network to cure the Web of what he calls "Unofficial Site Syndrome and Official Site Syndrome." [Wired News]
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- Godzilla Stalks US in Sculpture Show - Japanese artist Kenji Yanobe's debut American show features interactive monster suits and survival tools such as candy bars. [Wired News]
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- Godzilla, Blockbuster Pals Show Up Early - Hollywood studios are promoting sci-fi blockbusters on the Web, far in advance of the movies' releases. [Wired News]
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- Gossip Tabloid Invades the Web!!! - The National Enquirer is taking its pulp approach digital, so folks who snigger at its headlines in the supermarket can read the stories in online anonymity. [Wired News]
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- Got Water? You'll Need 8 Glasses Per Day - It's essential for life, prevents disease, and helps you lose weight, Dr. Weil says. [Wired News]
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- Grooving on Boogie Nights - The most striking thing about this movie is the absence of furor emanating from its wide release in hundreds of mainstream mall and megaplex theaters. [Wired News]
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- Groups Take Missing Children Search to the Web - Timing and location are crucial when getting the word out about missing kids. Several advocacy groups have launched plans to use the Internet to more effectively target their efforts. [Wired News]
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- Groupware Aims at Collaborators - New software turns artists into de facto R&D departments. [Wired News]
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- Growing a Community: More How-To Tips - Further tips on what makes online communities grow and thrive, from the people who have built the best. [Wired News]
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- Growing Community - Some successful propagators of online communities share their wisdom on how to create vibrant communal spaces. [Wired News]
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- Growth or Death for Technology Review? - The MIT-based journal has been valued for its informed take on new technology, voiced from many political directions. The desire to expand has led to a company shake-up and complaints of a loss of editorial diversity. [Wired News]
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- Hacker Provokes Klan Site Shutdown - By faking a screen name and canvassing users for their passwords, "Joka" forced AOL to respond. [Wired News]
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- Hacker Vows 'Terror' for Child Pornographers - Se7en's mission to take on child pornographers with a band of hackers has sparked a debate on civil liberties, property rights, and the ethics of vigilante justice. [Wired News]
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- Hackers Across the Water Link Events - The organizers of Hacking at the End of the Universe are plotting the world's biggest hacking event. [Wired News]
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- Hackers Frolic in the Woods - The HIP 97 conference in the Netherlands, like its companion festival in New York, is a chance to do some technopagan bonding. [Wired News]
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- Hackers Hack Crack, Steal Quake - The source for Quake and Golgatha are now in the hands of hackers. [Wired News]
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- Handheld Museum Ready to Hit the Pavement - In New York's West Village, a new GPS device will let tourists browse through history - and neighborhood chatter - while they walk. [Wired News]
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- Happy Puppy Refocuses Content - With gaming giants coming online, the popular site seeks a new niche. [Wired News]
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- HarperCollins Sets Its Sights on Digital Culture - The new HarperEdge line of books downplays a digital revolution, and eschews what its publisher calls a 'synthetic precipice.' [Wired News]
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- Hate, American Style - The strange saga of the most despised URL on the Net. [Wired News]
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- Healthy Living Too Costly? Cheap Excuse - You don't need to join a fitness club or buy gourmet health food to treat your body right, Dr. Weil says. [Wired News]
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- Heaven's Gate: A Santería of the '90s - Insights into the group's philosophy, and some now-chilling forecasts of this week's events, can be gleaned from excerpts of the Heaven's Gate Web site. [Wired News]
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- Help for Hot Flashes? Connect Mind and Body - Dr. Weil recommends you don't buy into negative messages about menopause. [Wired News]
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- Hempseed.com Uses Free Email as Publicity Tool - A 2-year-old offer of free email accounts has been accepted by 25,000 people. The company hopes to draw attention to its online campaign to turn hemp into a cash crop. [Wired News]
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- Hitching Nostalgia on Streaming Westerns - Aiming to get a boothold in new media, Western.com draws the wagons around the genre, offering video streaming of six classics, including the 'epic of the western fighting cowpoke.' [Wired News]
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- Hold That Thought - Steve Silberman tells of one man's brave struggle with too much email. [Wired News]
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- Hollywood Boasts: We Can Do It Better - In a roomful of geeks and VCs, studio execs insist that the Web is theirs, as soon as the profits roll in. [Wired News]
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- Homeless Cypherpunks Turn to Usenet - The 1,400-strong group splinters into three alt. subgroups and a mailing list - but they have plans for staying united. [Wired News]
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- HotWired 4.0 Targets 'Web Participants' - The site relaunched Tuesday with a focus on the World Wide Web. [Wired News]
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- How to _________ (verb) with Spammers - Bulk email spawns ingenious offensives from the masses. [Wired News]
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- HTML Showdown Pits Valley Against Alley - The growing dispute between West Coast and East Coast Web-site developers will find an outlet in the First Cool Site in a Day Competition. [Wired News]
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- Hubris, Paranoia, and the Art of Branding - Yahoo! sees competitors everywhere - and ignores them. Perhaps that's why its brand manager's new-media marketing workshop at Internet World revealed little that's not already known. [Wired News]
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- Hype List: Deflating this Month's Overblown Memes - Avatars, multicasting, and kickboxing are on the rise while DVD-RAM and online chat are in decline. [Wired News]
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- I Say a Little Prayer for Usenet - A Buddhist priest in Kyoto offers prayers to ease the disappointment of information loss. [Wired News]
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- Icon Seeks Partners for Word and Charged - Icon wants to license their brands, highlighting the evolving relationship between content providers and their corporate parents. [Wired News]
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- Icon Turns to AOL's Hub for Exposure - Charged, Icon's extreme-sports site, will become part of AOL's largest content area. After all, the 2.8 million pairs of eyeballs that the Hub offers can't be all wrong. [Wired News]
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- IDG Prepares Gaming Info Network - Entering the overpopulated jungle of online gaming sites, the publisher hopes to distinguish itself through its coverage. [Wired News]
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- If They Come, We Will Build It - In bringing Contact to the silver screen, artists had more on their minds than filmmaking. They also had to invent an alien language. [Wired News]
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- Imagine It: Another Gaming Site - Armed with offline credibility and a handful of chat rooms, Imagine braves the crowded online gaming market. [Wired News]
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- IMAX Makes a Big Move on the Mainstream - With new glasses and animation technology, the giant-film firm is hoping that 3-D animation will be its ticket to the Saturday-night family audience. [Wired News]
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- In Europe, CD-ROMs Flourish, Web Waits - Discs marked by painstaking attempts at cultural sensitvity - the better to increase sales - flood the Frankfurt Book Fair. Web publishing efforts, meantime, are hampered by high European phone costs. [Wired News]
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- Indie Film News Service No Longer Free - Hoping to become a full-fledged filmmaking community, indieWIRE is relaunching with a 35-bucks-a-year subscription price. [Wired News]
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- InfiNet To Unload Site of the Day - Though the name has a drawing power that's recognized Net-wide, Cool Site of the Day is being sold because it just doesn't fit with the owner's other interests. [Wired News]
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- Integrative Medicine? Begin Learning at U of A - Dr. Andrew Weil, with University of Arizona, will launch a professional Program in Integrative Medicine [Wired News]
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- Intel Serves Up MTV on PC Screens - If you can spare a quarter of your PC screen, Intel will use it to broadcast MTV, ESPN, and other cable products. [Wired News]
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- IntellectualCapital Exported to Russia - Pete du Pont, sensing a hunger for his serious brand of public-policy discussion, launches a Russian version of his Web journal. [Wired News]
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- InterNIC Cracks Down on Domain-Name Altruist - Scott Banister, who collects and gives away domain names, is being deluged by InterNIC removal notices. [Wired News]
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- Intimate Practice - The life and death lessons the Zen tradition offers are sometimes learned in difficult circumstances. [Wired News]
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- Is It Real, or Is It Robotics? - Scientists and artists working with robots gather at Siggraph to examine and play with the challenging nature of reality witnessed from several degrees of separation. [Wired News]
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- Is Running Over Pedestrians Really That Bad? - A British group fighting the censorship of digital media will set up in a London cybercafe to encourage the public to judge videogame violence for themselves. [Wired News]
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- Is There a Pulitzer for New Media Patience? - The folks who bestow journalism's highest honor - and snubbed electronic publications - will be studying the inclusion of new media entries. But don't think about submitting URLs until at least 1999. [Wired News]
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- It Ain't Easy Making South Park Cheesy - Cut-out paper animation looks great - but producing the homemade look took too long. After the creators of the new cartoon sensation turned to digital assistance, it was only by the fourth show that they got the look just right. [Wired News]
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- IUMA Bets on Liquid Audio - One of the Web's pioneer music sites says the streaming technology will be the future sound of the Net. [Wired News]
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- Japanese Crooks Taking Tech to the Bank - How a radio transmitter helped a man win big at pachinko, and other true crime stories. [Wired News]
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- Japanese Festival Unites Art, Fashion, VRML - The second annual Neoteric Festival will feature fashion shows with both human and VRML-rendered models. Couture bad-boy Jean-Paul Gaultier and DJ Mix Master Morris will appear in the flesh. [Wired News]
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- Jeeves Finds the Way - A new search engine speaks English, and features P. G. Wodehouse's famous butler as a mascot. [Wired News]
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- Joystick Nation Faces Gender Divide - Author of videogame history has mixed feelings about gaming and gender issues. [Wired News]
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- Joysticks Jerk, Shake, Buzz - and Evolve - Microsoft plays catch-up in the race to give joysticks more impact. [Wired News]
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- Jurassic Game Flouts Hyper-Real Physics - DreamWorks Interactive is trying to break video games out of their geekboy ghetto with a new game based on the Jurassic Park mythos. [Wired News]
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- Just Clap Your Joystick to the Beat - The whimsical videogame Parappa the Rappa's success in crossing the Pacific taste divide is partially owed to the creative team's inclusion of Rodney Alan Greenblat, who knows how to convince American audiences to suspend their cuteness repulsion. [Wired News]
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- Just Outta Beta: A Naked Video Obsession - Jamie Cason reviews Craig Hosoda's The Bare Facts Video Guide [Wired News]
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- Just Outta Beta: Garage Bands Go Global - Liquid Audio promises a fully functional system for listening to, buying, and recording music over the Net. [Wired News]
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- Just Outta Beta: Programmed to Checkmate - Chris Hudak, garden-variety loser, reviews Power Chess, gets killed - and loves it. [Wired News]
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- Keeping Our Heads (While We Grow Three More) - Walter Truett Anderson, author of Evolution Isn't What it Used To Be, offers insight on cloning. [Wired News]
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- Keeping Up with the Clones - 'The demand for human organs and for human clones will build once it becomes clear that this is doable,' Alvin Toffler says. 'The race is probably already on.' [Wired News]
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- Keyword: Mom - The access to people, medical information, and government databases brought about by the information revolution is having profound effects on some sectors of society where secrecy is a covenant - like adoption. [Wired News]
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- Kings of Jungle - Jungle music - pulsing, insanely fast, and not afraid to be goofy - is moving fast from a mutant culture to a mainstream phenomenon. [Wired News]
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- Kitchen Sink Circling the Drain - The publisher of R. Crumb and Charles Burns is going under, and blames the electronic competition. [Wired News]
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- Knee-Deep in Spam Zone, Booksellers Bow - Prompted by a little bud-nipping pressure, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble promise to review their policies. [Wired News]
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- Kooky, Kooky, Lend Me Your URL - Entertained by crackpots, Mark Frauenfelder finds that bullshit on the Web is valuable fertilizer for wild ideas. [Wired News]
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- Krassner Still Purveys Prankster Realism - The Internet has fulfilled Paul Krassner's dream of getting readers to think for themselves. Now he'll retire the granddaddy of the underground press. An interview with the Yippie publisher of The Realist. [Wired News]
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- LA Times Tests Multilingual Waters - Although far from perfect, real-time translation software is fueling the paper's exploration of non-English Net publishing. Local and international readers stand to benefit; how much and how soon, though, is unclear. [Wired News]
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- Lady Goes from Gray to Painted - The New York Times introduces - gulp! - color into its daily news pages. Its goal: User friendliness and bolstered ad revenues. [Wired News]
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- Las Vegas Police Take To the Arcade - As part of GameWorks' new Team Building Program, the 20 officers will shoot zombies, drive tanks, and speed-skate, all as an exercise in group problem-solving. [Wired News]
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- Laser Scanners Offer Better Fitting Clothes - The Whole Body Scanner promises to find clothes that fit - without you having to try them on. [Wired News]
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- Latin America Hypes Digital Convergence - A new magazine, backed by Dow Jones, is the first in the region to cover the culture of technology. [Wired News]
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- Leary's Death Guide to Get Sirius Treatment - Helping the prankster prophet spread his belief in 'maximum freedom and pleasure from the situation of being human' is a labor of love for the cyber poster-boy. [Wired News]
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- Leonardo Bringing Sense to Digital Haze - Thirty years after the journal launched to win respect for computer-created art, its legacy is pushing for even closer collaborations between art and science. [Wired News]
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- Let it Be - Taking advantage of his position as a Frenchman in the strange new world of Silicon Valley, Jean-Louis Gass e has been sending his countrymen a weekly insider perspective on life there, in a column for the French paper Liberation. [Wired News]
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- Letting New Sounds Out of the Bag - The third part of a three-day Wired News special report offers a glimpse into the next chapter in music history, already being written by composers and geeks. Someday, your computer will create music along with you. Also, a timeline of music and technology and a cheat sheet for Internet audio. [Wired News]
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- Letting New Sounds Out of the Bag - The third part of a three-day Wired News special report offers a glimpse into the next chapter in music history, already being written by composers and geeks. Someday, your computer will create music along with you. Also, a timeline of music and technology. [Wired News]
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- Life is Harsh, and So Is Web Marketing - When Sauza Tequila's Harsh Site of the Day linked to a spoof page, the company found that satire can be a double-edged sword. [Wired News]
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- Lighten Up, Garry - A chess and computing expert offers some advice to the whining Kasparov and his vague insinuations of cheating. [Wired News]
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- Lineland Exposes Pynchon-L Flame Wars - "This is a combination of [Pynchon's] fondest dream and worst nightmare," says editor Jules Siegel. [Wired News]
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- Literate Smut: Hitting a Raw Nerve - Some webzines handle sex as more than a popular sport or marketing tool, getting big-name writers and public figures to explore their predilections and passions. [Wired News]
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- Live from Sunset Boulevard - A team of Xerox PARC artists and researchers plans to morph the corner of Sunset and Doheny into an interactive drive-by soap opera. [Wired News]
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- Lockheed Eases Fighter Plane Licensing - F-22 Raptor maker will begin licensing plane's access to gamemakers, just not exclusively. [Wired News]
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- Lockheed: No Free Plane Ride for I-Magic - The military supplier is clamping down on simulations of the fighters it makes for the Air Force, and wants the gamemaker not to use any references to, or images of, the planes. [Wired News]
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- Lost Children Designer Tackles Game Translation - But the man responsible for the sweaty, steampunk look of the film thinks videogames are still in a primitive state. [Wired News]
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- Lost Something? Look for It on the Web - Gordon French's quixotic quest: to build a site that anyone across the United States can turn to for help finding items they have lost. [Wired News]
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- Love God Is a Digital Debut at Sundance - Independent filmmaker Frank Grow shows how going digital helped save 30 percent on a feature. [Wired News]
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- Low-Res Director Benefits from Footage Dearth - Robert Purser gets 200 footage-thirsty people to help him create his 30-second short, Bullets Never Die. [Wired News]
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- Lucky Strike Slinks into Web Marketing - Brown Williamson's Circuit Breaker site hypes Lucky Strike-sponsored events and gathers user information, but makes no mention of cigarettes. [Wired News]
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- Mac Game Developers Team Up - Facing a tough market, they seek each others' support in a new alliance. [Wired News]
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- Macy's Eases Swimsuit Fear with Database - StyleSelect allows shoppers to try suits on virtual models shaped like themselves (or not). [Wired News]
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- Mad Monk Looks at Crazy-Tongued Americans - One-half of the team that pioneered 'dashboard publishing' publishes his verbal insights, gathered from years on the road, in a new book documenting American slang. [Wired News]
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- Mag Editors Impose Editorial-Ad Rules - The American Society of Magazine Editors raises the ethical bar for online advertising. But is anybody jumping? [Wired News]
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- Make Your Own CDs - Give Away Your Buying Habits - Custom Revolution's new site will let consumers create their own mix of songs on CDs. In the process, the company will create a careful list of purchases, and perhaps make some money off that demographic information. [Wired News]
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- Making News Work on the Web - No one has a proven track record yet in online publishing, so we get stuck in the old way of doing things, based on the past successes of an editor who hasn't the foggiest what hexadecimal is. [Wired News]
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- Male-Dominated Summit Sparks Women's Ire - So two women were invited (Microsoft claims three), and one attended. Online groups are planning a women's summit in protest. [Wired News]
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- MaMaMedia Sets Sites on 'Clickerati' - By shooting way low, a Web site plus magazine venture wants to get sharp kids hooked early. [Wired News]
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- Manson's Family Affair Living in Cyberspace - He doesn't surf the Web, but the murderer's got his own homepage, a strange but simple site run by his "minister of information," George Stimson, an HTML novice and Manson devotee. [Wired News]
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- Mao Would Not Approve: Beijing Sex Shops Flourish - A boom in the popularity of mechanical sexual aids has led to the odd sight of lab-coated government workers selling a wild assortment of sex toys. [Wired News]
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- Marketing Stunt Explodes with Techno Flourish - With support from DEC, Apple, and Silicon Graphics, an art show/sales pitch hopes to push product in a bizarre carnivalesque backdrop. [Wired News]
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- Mattel's Latest: Cease-and-Desist Barbie - Hardball copyright prosecution of fan sites raises questions about service providers' roles in defending clients' free speech rights. [Wired News]
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- Mattel's New Barbie Talks and Learns - 'Computers are cool,' preaches Talk With Me Barbie, an interactive, programmable first. [Wired News]
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- May Farce Be With You Again: Hardware Returns - Eager to coattail on the Lucas empire's popularity, the makers of Hardware Wars dust off the low-tech spoof for re-release - and a comic book. [Wired News]
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- McDonald's Gets Wired - in France - Do files come with that shake? The megacorporation's first cybercaf will serve Net access and McNuggets in Lyon. [Wired News]
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- Mead Scans Tea Leaf, Launches Site - The much-emulated designer of Blade Runner fame is building a Web site with organic inspiration. [Wired News]
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- Media Descends, Cynically, on UFO Gathering - Most came to Roswell for the anticipated, circus-style entertainment - and left with their beliefs unchanged. Also, how the town cashed in. [Wired News]
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- Megadeth Family Reunion - One of the Web's older communities gathers in Las Vegas to honor the site and themselves at the start of their favorite band's new tour. [Wired News]
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- Members Posted Apocalyptic Warnings on Usenet - Heaven's Gate members were active on Usenet, but their online presence provides few clues to the mass suicide. [Wired News]
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- Mesquite-Scented Soap Streams to Web - Believing in the power of a devoted niche despite a less-than-prime-time technology, a new glamour-eschewing Web serial launches from the Lone Star State. Plus, the dish on other soaps. [Wired News]
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- Message in a Bottle - In a world of castaways lost in their own mental islands, Bottle Mail aims to make the Net a friendlier place by encouraging random connections and diffuse messaging. [Wired News]
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- Messiah Caught in Domain-Name Flap - The missionaries with the group Jews for Jesus are promising legal action against an activist who registered jewsforjesus.org to argue against the group's central premise. [Wired News]
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- MetaCreations Says 'Nope' to Teenage Mope - Hoping to liven up the event, the organizer of the Teen Digital Movie-Making Competition is switching from weighty social message categories to the likes of sci-fi and comedy. It's also heading off copyright concerns by providing stock footage to budding auteurs. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Marks Web-Chat Turf - Web-based chat blossoms, and the behemoth moves in, with 3-D and societal intentions. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Rules in Hell - Representatives from MSN presided over Cyberhell, a 24-hour Web-design contest. [Wired News]
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- Midnight's Children Connect in Cyberspace - As the nation celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence, an Indian Web journal takes a broad, profound look at its past and prepares for its future. [Wired News]
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- MindVox on the Rocks - Angry users foresee the death of one of New York's most famed online communities. The owner admits there are problems, but says the future is bright. [Wired News]
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- Monster Mash - DNA, in a rare instance of a scientific entity penetrating the pop culture miasma, has emerged not as a bit player but the unlikely co-star of the Jurassic junta. [Wired News]
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- Moroccan Weavers Take Rugs to the World (Wide Web) - If an anthropologist and a Moroccan NGO have their way, the caravan network may become considerably shorter. With Virtual Souk, they're hoping to let weavers in remote villages use the Web to cut out middlemen. [Wired News]
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- Morphing Technology Warps Hollywood Hierarchy - Elastic Reality, which received an Oscar on Saturday, is helping bring post-production to PCs. [Wired News]
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- MP3 Music Pirates Avoid Legal Action - As record companies crack down on MP3 sites, some webmasters are trying to strike a bargain. [Wired News]
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- MS Joins Forces with Gaming and Film Celebs - Microsoft's latest investment, Digital Anvil, has a show-biz flair for gaming hits. [Wired News]
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- MSN Splurges to Lure Hollywood Talent - When MSN comes knocking for talent, Hollywood answers. [Wired News]
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- MSN Treads Where Others Have Gone Before - Great Stuff project will bring big-ticket artists to collaborative writing project. [Wired News]
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- MSN Tunes to Female- and Family-Friendly Fare - The company prefers to refer to the elimination of 10 shows and the launch of 14 shows as a "new season," but content changes reveal a shifting strategy. [Wired News]
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- MSNBC Cancels The Site - The Internet news show's producer is reportedly asking to stay on the air for a few more months. [Wired News]
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- MSNBC May Cut The Site's Airtime - With contract renewal talks in the works, the network is looking to make room for a new sports show. [Wired News]
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- MSNBC Pulls Plug on Edgewise - As the network tries to build up its brands, the smart, eclectic weekly talk show doesn't make the cut. [Wired News]
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- MTV Opens Cage for Wild Zoo-TV - David Kushner reviews a new series which explores the edges of what is watchable - and finds at least one reason to want his MTV. [Wired News]
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- MTV Picks up Local Beat - MTV joins Micrsoft and Warner Bros. in the race to provide local cultural coverage. [Wired News]
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- MTV to Roll Out Cartoon Sushi - A new animated variety show will feature mature humor and broad accessibility. [Wired News]
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- MTV's Got the Beat on Violence - Having already offed the radio star, the videos level of violence continues to rise, and the American Medical Association says MTV's fare is the most dangerous of all. [Wired News]
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- Much Ado About Klingon - In rural Pennsylvania, a gathering to help Earthlings practice their Klingon language skills included Much Ado About Nothing in Klingon and a brief Klingon opera. [Wired News]
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- Muckraker Rankles Videogame Press - The San Francisco Bay Guardian kicked off its new videogame section with an attack on the ethics of the gaming press. Other pubs reacted by questioning the reporter's motives. [Wired News]
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- Multimedia Art Catches Whitney's Eye - The century's last Biennial sends a strong signal to the art world: Work that utilizes digital technology deserves a look. [Wired News]
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- Multimedia, Cultural Values Merge in Brussels - A former Cisco CEO launches CyberTheatre, a techno-driven paradise on the European Community capital's lushest street. [Wired News]
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- Museums Add Web Sites to Collections - But can a Web site be collected? The Whitney and SFMOMA take different approaches [Wired News]
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- Museums Gather to Spread Electronic Access - Curators from some of the nation's top museums meet in Chicago to set their own technological terms - not Bill Gates' - for fashioning the first online uber-museum. [Wired News]
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- Music Booking Moving to the Web - New strategies could change the relationship between bands, fans, bookers, and promoters. [Wired News]
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- Music for the Masses - And You? - CD-ROM zine Launch has acquired Firefly's musical community and recommendation engine. But its all-things-to-all-people site runs the risk of being a middle-of-the-road ticket to nowhere. [Wired News]
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- Music Industry Pursues Online Royalties - Several recording and publishing groups propose to the US Copyright Office that anyone who downloads an entire song from the Net pay their 7 cents. [Wired News]
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- Music Technology: A Timeline - From wax cylinders to digital multitrack systems, a history of the cutting edge in sound. [Wired News]
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- Music Technology: A Timeline - From wax cylinders to digital multitrack systems, a history of the cutting edge in sound. [Wired News]
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- Musicians Lured to Videogames - A formerly neglected sense is beginning to get its due, as musicians are brought into gaming efforts to add both street cred and unique production techniques. [Wired News]
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- My Bookstore's Bigger Than Yours - Size apparently matters as a number of vendors vie for the rights to the title of "the world's largest bookstore." [Wired News]
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- My Spammer Dream Date - Mark Frauenfelder finds that email abusers sure can be touchy, and something of a bore. [Wired News]
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- Native American Film Fest Embraces New Media - As a way of including voices ignored by film and TV, this year's festival adds electronic-media projects. [Wired News]
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- Naughty Santas Subvert Christmas Spirit - While concern over groups of bearded mischief-makers has arisen among police and parents, weird Santa events have begun to spread. [Wired News]
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- NEA Attack Pushes Writers Web-ward - A congressional subcommittee added the postfeminist literary press FC2 to its list of objectional NEA artists. The group is taking its battle to the Web. [Wired News]
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- Necromediaology - Students of failed media are creating a new communications model: Sociomedia. [Wired News]
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- Net Mom Battles 'Spamdexing' by Sex Site - While vanity surfing, Jean Armour Polly discovered her name was being used by a lascivious site. [Wired News]
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- Net Puts the 'Dis' in Disney - Disney's Net neighbors would not please Uncle Walt. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf - What's the secret connection between Snapple and WebTV? Who knows? Who cares! [Wired News]
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- Net Surf - The death of a glossy lamented in Net Surf? Where's the Net? [Wired News]
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- Net Surf - What happens when functional design is stupid? When stupid design works? [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: 15 Minutes of Insignificance - Perhaps in the future, everyone will be nobody for 15 minutes. Maybe longer, if they can afford it. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Advertorial as Children's Programming - Should Yahoo choose to be the first site to offer branded plush dolls and action figures, it might find that online commerce is not the dead end some people claim. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Alexa's New Navigation Service - Neither a Web site nor a plug-in, but an application that works in cooperation with your browser. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Apple's Irony - There are two kinds of people in the world, and judging by their latest ads, Apple doesn't seem to be speaking to either of them. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Backtalk on the Web - The conventional spin on digital punditry posits a vast network that trades in cheap, barely articulate criticisms - a complaint culture with little to say and lots of drive space to say it. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Battle of the Bills - Between campaign finance reform slapstick on C-SPAN and antitrust noncompliance outroar on CNN, the current scandal climate can be read as either late-summer slapstick for cynics or an early winter of our discontent. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Best of Both Worlds - A real convergence of television and the Internet, it seems, is being wrought right now, driven most likely by the respective aggravations of each medium. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Better Middlemen - Push it, print it, insert it, sell it, email it - do it all, and it might eventually add up to something disarmingly similar to a positive cash flow. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Comcast@Home Used to Suck - When former grousers graduate to celebratory tech-spec publishers, it's clear the rules of customer service have changed not a whit in the transition from atoms to bits. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Corporate Warriors - The novel twists on rebirthing corporate cool don't go away, they just grow more bizarre. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Cyber Surveillance - MusicBot is BMI's copyright-violation cop software that crawls the Web for musical infringements. So what if a simple HotBot search would yield the same results as their proprietary code? [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Digital X-Mas - With the triple threat of shopping, traveling, and family hell on the horizon, thoughts naturally turn toward editorial-calendar gimmicks. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Domain Anarchy - For those honestly concerned with improving order, coherency, and accessibility in domain naming, the semirecent proposals of seven new top-level suffixes ... represent the ultimate Maalox moment. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Exercising Freedom of Bad Taste - Few Web diehards need convincing on the point that fan sites are, if anything, overgenerous in their larding of free publicity on typically undeserving subjects. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Good, Clean Violence - More than swinging chat rooms or low-grade videoconferencing, it's violence that really brings people together online. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Harassment Begets Mirrors - It may or may not be art, but what's not to like about the fast-propagating response to Mattel's recent beatdown on Mark Napier's Distorted Barbie site? [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Heaven's Gate Revisited - With most of the faithful forever lost in space, Heaven's Gate members may have missed their opportunity to explain their own recycling. But last Sunday, the sole member to fail the 'graduation ceremony' tried. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Hosts and Parasites - The host that feeds on its parasites is a happy host, and if search sites are the Net's fattest vehicles of profit, it's not surprising that they're busily feeding on the online book-vendor industry. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Imagining the Web - The Web lacks velocity and mass. Everybody knows both are just around the next corner, and the dizzying mix of anticipation and desperation hides between the lines of almost every ambitious Internet business plan. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Internet Addiction - If "Internet addiction disorder" is accepted as a bona fide crisis, we may be forced to suffer renewed reports of broken marriages, neglected children, and "psychomotor agitation" (the cybershakes). [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Journalistic Standards - The responsibility gap separating the Drudge Report from Mother Jones is as vast as that between Sharpie scrawls on a bathroom stall and the Associated Press. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Marketing 101 - The au courant notion of paying consumers to look at ads strikes me as not dissimilar to the prospect of getting paid to have sex. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Microsoft Agent Goes too Far - Since no one follows directions on the Web, we'll be seeing at least a decade's worth of digital roadside-assistance schemes for the lost and confused online. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Microsoft's ITV - A crippling, perhaps mortal, blow was dealt to the comatose interactive TV field last week. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: More Practice, Less Theory - Just as the "crazy computer" joke has entered the hack comic's stand-up routine, along with bits on airline food, VCR clocks, and Janet Reno, everyone with fingers and an audience is obliged to have an opinion on the digital age. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Nintendo vs. PC - Given a choice between GoldenEye, a spy simulation on my trusty Nintendo 64, and Missile Mambo, a Web-based simulation of a spy movie on my crusty laptop, I'll choose the one with the Rumblepak. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: No Shopping Guide Site in Sight - Finally, Consumer Reports arrives online. Sure, all the articles are there, but instant availability of archived reviews is also a curse of sorts. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: On Spam, Paranoia, and Anonymity - Publish online - on the Web, on a discussion board, on Usenet - and you join a very special community. A community of targets. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Online Trading - As E*Trade ads show up on small screens, it'll mean more West Coast investors waking up at 3 a.m., with just enough time to hit the bulletin boards before trading begins. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Owning the Web - Lycos, which last week announced the impending approval of its patent on spider technology, is the latest pending litigant in the quest to claim ownership of the ubiquitous. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Porn 'Community' - Porn has always been an online favorite - the Web's killer app, even. What other HTTP-friendly media delivers so much bang for so little K? [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Problems with Push - Tragically, most push believers don't even recognize just how many steps they've taken past the edge of the cliff. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Profits and Ownership - If Tommy, Pamela, the San Carlos teens, and AlterNIC founder Eugene Kashpureff teamed up and broadcast their travails for profit, they could probably buy Microsoft. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Revolting Is - The new webzine you'll love to hate. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Selling out to Microsoft - Many make the mistake of assuming distribution is a moot issue on the Web, which is often misunderstood to be some sort of magical 'level playing field.' [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Set Your Browsers - Experienced netheads have to understand the economics of the Web as a function of demographics, where publishers command riches in exchange for young, wealthy, generally male eyeballs. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Site Creation Myths - Every Web site deserves its own creation myth, but few creators are brazen enough to sell theirs before their site has even launched. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Stating the Obvious - It's a curious image: the Web as repository for ceaseless narcissism, a hall of mirrors all reflecting the same lint-encrusted navel. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Surveillance Is Good - As long as cookies aren't tied to our Social Security numbers, it's arguably in everyone's best interest for our movements to be metered, measured, and scrutinized. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: That Great Net Taste - Get on, get your information, and go live a little. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: The Net's Kid Problem - If only it were enough to instruct the kinder to refrain from talking with strangers. Sadly, the Internet is all about talking to strangers. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: The Truth about Webvertisements - From the day the first dollar changed hands in exchange for a link, the case for hypertext has been argued time and again, employing increasingly arcane and superfluous claims. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Virtual Gimmicks - Ticketmaster's announcement of intent to offer 3-D seating previews and fly-bys online, inspired by the AT&T commercials of olde, is the latest bout of retrofuturism made good. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: We're Not Alone on The Web - On the Net, people get apoplectic at the thought of cookies and start quoting George Orwell at the mere mention of demographic surveys. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Web-Based Auctions - People have been using the Net for years to sell other people their precious garbage. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Why Do You Think They Call it Dope? - It takes an altered state of consciousness to understand the market-share debate antitheatrics currently crawling their way through the industry press. [Wired News]
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- Net-to-Radio Audio Dials In on Commuters - Two new companies are jockeying for your drive-time attention with mobile playback systems that will offer news, commentary, and your favorite tome. [Wired News]
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- Netscape Charm School Trains Evangelists - Netscape teaches panache in the first formal training for technology evangelists. [Wired News]
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- Networks Hatch Plans for Digital TV - Some broadcast execs convened at Columbia Institute's DTV conference were talking about "inhabited TV" shows in which viewers played a role, while others felt that content would be determined by what's already on the Web. [Wired News]
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- New Media Council: Can't We All Get Along? - A new think tank pushes the industry to work together to imagine the future of digital entertainment. [Wired News]
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- New Media Gets Its Due in New German Museum - The Center for Art And Media, ZKM, opens In Karlsruhe, Germany, October 18. With a mission to highlight works of new media, the center represents a needed addition to the world of contemporary art. [Wired News]
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- New Search Engine Makes Data Manageable - Northern Light organizes data into folders while boosting selection with licensed books and periodicals. And the first month is free. [Wired News]
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- New Site Fights for Rights of Font Creators - Type pirates are bad news for design in the digital age, says Typeright, a coalition of font designers aiming to reform copyright laws. [Wired News]
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- New York Replaces Porn with XS Gaming - Gaming center XS is a high-tech antidote to the peep shows that until recently were 42nd Street's primary means of sensual indulgence. [Wired News]
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- New York Super Schmooze - The young and greedy met the old and visionary as the monthly CyberSuds gathering tries to revive shrinking interest by going upscale. [Wired News]
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- New York Times Gets into City Guide Game - Promising more than "what to do, where to go," the Big Apple daily plans to offer all the information that fits its dominant-franchise turf. [Wired News]
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- New-Media Agents Joining the Web - A handful of corporate catalysts are working to make sure they're in on the next big deal. [Wired News]
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- Nintendo Pirating Device Still for Sale - A games copying system continues to be offered over the Internet despite a court order blocking a small-fry vendor. [Wired News]
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- Nintendo Sues Publisher over James Bond Maps - Claiming that Prima Communications' guide to Goldeneye 007 games copied material from its own strategy books, Nintendo is seeking a cease-and-desist order and profits from the book. [Wired News]
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- No Dream Sequence for Hong Kong Filmmakers - "One country, two systems" is likely to mean that Hong Kong's film industry will still be on the outside of the world's biggest movie market - and still struggling to get by. Plus, HK FX get digital. [Wired News]
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- No Go for Ersatz Illuminati - Game publisher Steve Jackson fights to keep a group of gamers from naming themselves after his trademarked moniker. [Wired News]
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- No More CD-ROM for Cinemania - Microsoft will stop producing the movie-info discs, and will instead focus on its Web site. [Wired News]
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- No More Lonely Nights for Klingon Speakers - A new audio chat space allows Earth-bound Klingon-philes to practice their tongue. [Wired News]
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- Not Half the Burning Man It Used to Be - No longer its own private Nevada ritual, Burning Man remains geekdom's most important holiday. A collection of Wired News correspondents offer their impressions on the desert romp. [Wired News]
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- Not in My Newsgroup! - Usenet newsgroups grow their own protective forces to fight spammers and losers. [Wired News]
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- Nothing Funny about Comics Museum's Straits - The Words and Pictures Museum, founded and until recently generously funded by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles creator, faces an 'urgent' fiscal crisis. [Wired News]
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- Now Reel.com Is Really Real - The online video store has built itself a meatspace pied- -terre. [Wired News]
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- Now Spammers Can Hide from 'Sociopathic Flamers' - One ex-spammer wants to protect his former peers from the Net's 'evil spirit' with a software that lets spammers hide their identity. [Wired News]
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- Now Spamming at an In-Box Near You - Well-known MovieFone's new email service aims to hook up studios and movie junkies with previews, posters, and showtimes. [Wired News]
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- NTN Lets Fans Belly Up to Gridiron Action - Interactive game lets fans call plays and compete against thousands of others in America's most loyally unplugged network. [Wired News]
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- Nurturing New Genres - On the second day of Wired News' special report on the digital reinvention of music, five essays examine genres that are emerging, expanding or reviving under the influence of technology: electronica, jungle, immersive soundtracks, world music, and death metal. [Wired News]
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- NVE Moves into Growing 3-D Theater Niche - Armed with cheap technology and 3-D footage, New Visual Entertainment aims to launch a chain of 40 screens across the US and Canada. [Wired News]
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- NY Artist Helps Street Kids Steal Fire - In a work calling for intense dedication by all parties, Tim Rollins and youngsters from the South Bronx are exploring the idea of Prometheus, translating the myth into their own street- and tech-savvy terms. [Wired News]
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- Oasis and Trek Fans Battle to Protect Sites - Oasis Webmasters for Internet Freedom and the Online Freedom Federation are boldly telling copyright-minded lawyers to back off. [Wired News]
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- Obsessed by Compulsion? There's Help - The disorder can cause routine habits or extreme behaviors, but life doesn't have to be this way Dr. Weil says. [Wired News]
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- Old Guard Dominates Tech Journalist Rankings - Only one online outfit - News.com - figured prominently in a magazine's appraisal of who carries the most weight. [Wired News]
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- Once-Futuristic Film Cars Find Home - Featuring Batmobiles, Bond mobiles, and Jurassic jeeps, the Star Cars Museum shows George Barris' designs at their Hollywood best. [Wired News]
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- Online Casinos Placing Their Bets Offshore - Three new gambling sites are setting up shop outside the reach of congressional forces that are trying to make them illegal in the United States. [Wired News]
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- Online Dance Project Puts Audience Onstage - The (.Mov)ment Series lets users explore the world of dance, using the stage as an immersive interface for deeper information. [Wired News]
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- Online Fans Press ABC to Save Relativity - Fans failed to save My So-Called Life, but that isn't stopping a determined group from trying to save another TV favorite. [Wired News]
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- Online Loops = Death for CD Samplers - The "world's largest" provider of audio samples on CD is moving online. [Wired News]
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- Online Sites to MTV: I Want My Attribution - N2K and Addicted to Noise say MTV News has been using their news stories, without giving credit. [Wired News]
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- Onward Christian Networkers - Nonprofit Houses of Worship is hoping to instill a greater sense of inter-denominational community by creating Web sites for every Christian church in America. [Wired News]
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- Oscar is FX Wizard's Reward - Programmer revolutionized the computer-animation business, but hasn't capitalized for lack of a patent. The Academy is about to thank him. [Wired News]
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- Oscars May Honor Predigital DIY Journalist - George Seldes, the subject of a documentary that is up for an Oscar, was muckraking forebear of the Net. [Wired News]
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- Ousted Klixters Build New Home - How Klick, The Well of Germany, lost its place but stayed united. [Wired News]
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- Out Kills Its Online Zine - The online gay community loses a voice as the magazine's advertising sales staff finds the Internet to be a distraction. [Wired News]
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- Outsider Digs with an Inside Eye - Time writer Eric Pooley maintains his geographic distance while burrowing into the belly of the Beltway. He's set to win a Washington award for presidential reporting. [Wired News]
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- Outta Beta - Skullmonkeys, hallucinogens, new enemies, and the future of representative government. [Wired News]
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- Outta Beta Omnibus: Rosetta Tome, Trip, Reality Virtually - Steven Jonhson's book Interface Culture, Paul Di Filippo's short stories in Fractal Paisleys, and SouthPeak Interactive's mystery game Tem jin are born for our scrutiny. [Wired News]
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- Outta Beta: Distance Learning for the Masses - Buoyed by the Net and a consortium of colleges and companies, Western Governors University is about to offer cyber-diplomas. [Wired News]
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- Overcoming Your Worst Fears, Virtually - VR therapy sends phobics into an immersive virtual-reality simulation of their worst nightmare in order to cure them. [Wired News]
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- Own Your DNA - And Get it in Writing - Artist Larry Miller can rescue you from the cloners' clutches if you register as an Original Human Being. [Wired News]
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- Pac-Man Leaves Flatland - Developers are hoping that a 3-D versions of the '80s videogame icon and his digital cousin Frogger will gobble up a new generation of gamers. Is it a retro-revolution, or just plain wacka-wacka wacky nostalgia? [Wired News]
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- Paradigm, MSN Team on Music Sites - Only weeks after acquiring SonicNet, Paradigm partners with MSN to create an alternative music program. [Wired News]
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- Paradox: Gathering of a Visionary Tribe - In Arcosanti, the desert model of an urban future, a gathering of prophetic scientists will meet, discuss the future, and party. [Wired News]
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- PBS Makes a Push Around Bandwidth - PBS Online will initially hawk videos and books using hybrid technology from Intel, Marimba, and Macromedia. [Wired News]
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- PBS Pushes Fusion of TV, Net - Will community-owned TV be the first to "get" interactive technologies, while its elder, and richer, network siblings sit on the sidelines? [Wired News]
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- PBS Relaunch Targets Kids and Geeks - But critics point out that the line between an ad banner and sponsorship is getting too fine. [Wired News]
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- Penguin Plaque Honors Linux Creator - Linux community shows ongoing unity with a small zoological gesture [Wired News]
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- Pentagon Rejects Free Earth-Defense Software - Interplay Productions wanted to help save the world. It should have saved its breath. [Wired News]
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- People's Court Convenes on the Web - Former New York City mayor Ed Koch grabs the gavel and settles squabbles in a way-new form of voyeurism. But, remember: For misdemeanors, push return, not execute. [Wired News]
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- PEOPlink Brings Far-Flung Artisans to Market - From Bolivia to India, artisans are using digital cameras and the Web to market their wares. [Wired News]
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- Phone Sects - The earliest ether communities were hosted by Ma Bell. [Wired News]
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- Pixar Keeps Creative Control in Disney Deal - Pixar and Disney's upcoming Bugs will begin where Toy Story ended in style and technology. [Wired News]
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- Pixel Pets Adapt to America - When Tamagotchi dies in Japan, it is escorted by ghouls; in the US, it flies off with a smiling angel. [Wired News]
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- PlanetOut Blinks, Saves News Site - NewsPlanet, the ambitious "queer Reuters" section of the Web site, will continue to give daily coverage of what the straight press misses. [Wired News]
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- PlanetOut Hits the Airwaves - The acquisition of the GLOradio broadcast network creates 'the largest gay and lesbian media company in the world.' [Wired News]
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- PlanetOut Morale Skyrockets as Rielly Returns - Once dissed as 'Planet Wipeout,' the site is turning around. [Wired News]
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- Plantar Warts? Use Your Head - You could burn, freeze, or dissolve warts with acid, but Dr. Weil prefers a good visualization. [Wired News]
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- PLATOfest to Celebrate First Online Community - A quarter-century before the Web, a time-sharing network called PLATO pioneered email, GUIs, multiplayer games - and gender swapping. [Wired News]
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- Playful Brit Soap Embeds Ads in Plot - People are tired of having ads thrown in their face. But will they prefer them hidden in their content? [Wired News]
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- Playing the Censorship Card - Censorship has become the red herring of today's culture, used in much the same way that "communism" was in the 1950s. [Wired News]
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- Playmate Meets Geeks Who Made Her a Net Star - Lena Sjooblom, whose November 1972 Playboy centerfold is the most-viewed image on the Net, is making her first live public appearance. [Wired News]
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- PlayNet Aims to Wire Gamers in Bars, Hotels, Airports - The company plans to blaze into the pay-per-play market with a sprawling public network in hotels, airports, and bars. [Wired News]
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- Plugged In on Golden Pond - A conference on how the increasingly senior US population is coming alive in cyberspace, along with a new set of survey findings, shows the Digital Revolution has changed realities for the aged. [Wired News]
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- Porno, Politics, and the Girl Next Door - After two decades in the sex biz, newspaper publisher Kat Sunlove is indulging her passion for politics and challenging common assumptions about pornography. [Wired News]
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- Pornucopia of Posteriors - Mark Frauenfelder's new weekly column on the anthropology of the digital world. First up: The Crotch Potato. [Wired News]
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- Post-Cold War Space Tension Unveiled - IMAX's Mission to Mir, to screen Tuesday, shows that the space-race mentality isn't dead. [Wired News]
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- Post-Nerds, Part II: Rise and Fall of Geek Force - The idea of a fight-back digital force was immensely appealing to brainy - if gullible - volunteers. [Wired News]
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- Praying to the Aliens - Roswell's UFO conference had the fervor, and sometimes the flavor, of religion. [Wired News]
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- Prize Lures Hackers, but Server's Safe So Far - Canadian Web developers challenge hackers to steal credit card numbers. The closest anyone's gotten is a pesky synflood. [Wired News]
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- Publishers Eat Cost of Online Networks - Can initial CD-ROM sales provide enough revenue to keep online gaming free? [Wired News]
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- Purple Moon Finally Rises - After a long gestation, the much-talked-about games company releases its first two CD-ROMs, giving girls a taste of the pre-teen cosmology Purple Moon hopes to continue in other interrelated stories. [Wired News]
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- Pushing Pagers to Teens - MTV announces MTV Pager Network to link young adults to their promotions, ads, and each other. [Wired News]
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- Quake Clans Vie for M3 Domination - Clanners will spend the Memorial Day weekend battling each other in the darkened rooms of game competition. [Wired News]
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- Quake Players Swap Wads for Profit - But the question of who profits from online gamers' creation of new worlds is starting to cause bad feelings. [Wired News]
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- Quakefest Gathers Warrior Geekstresses - The first all-female tournament showcases sisterhood in arms, and wins support from id. [Wired News]
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- Queen and Tabloids Take it to the Web - Starting this week, you can choose between the royal version or information of the Daily Mail variety. [Wired News]
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- R. U. Ready to Revolt - Disenchanted with a movement he helped spark, R. U. Sirius turns from cyberculture to tabloid culture and the id in his new ezine, Revolting. [Wired News]
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- Rabbi Calls Net the 'New Battlefield of Hate' - Drawing attention to a selective CD-ROM guide to Web hate sites, a rabbi at the Simon Wiesenthal Center says the traditional American approach of saying "the answer to hate speech is more speech doesn't compute" on the Web. [Wired News]
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- Razorfish Swims Against Microsoft Tide - On the eve of the MSN season debut, a Silicon Alley design shop mounts its own network [Wired News]
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- Rebirth of the Cool: Jazz Meets Net Future - Label execs may be cautious, but jazz musicians are ready to make noise about getting online. [Wired News]
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- Recombinant Do-Re-Mi - The hot new genre of "world music" is all about influences, absorption, appropriation, cultural promiscuity, and creative miscegenation. Is this really so new? [Wired News]
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- Repurposing Seats Posteriors, Suits Posterity - The International Contemporary Furniture Fair showcased innovative uses for old and recycled materials. The results can be lasting comfort. [Wired News]
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- Resentments Flare over Mail Thrash on The Well - Bugs in The Well's new mail system brings to a boil simmering resentment between old-time members and new management. [Wired News]
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- ResFest Hits the States - The renamed festival has matured, as have the showcased directors, but the intersection of technology and slackers remains key. [Wired News]
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- Reuters to Launch Online Teen News - The news service looks to tap a growing market, with stories written for, and often by, teenagers. [Wired News]
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- Right-Sizing the Net - or Yahoo Redux? - How human agents are becoming the Web filter of choice. [Wired News]
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- Robot Carnival Encourages Playful Design - Tokyo's 'Street Performer' robot contest teaches engineering students to build 'em for laughs. [Wired News]
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- Robots Fly, sans Fancy - Unmanned flying vehicles of all shapes compete for money in a simulated toxic-waste dumping ground to show real-world applications for space-age technologies. [Wired News]
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- Rockers to Shake 3-D Booties on Web - Musicians in skin-tight motion-capture suits will control their online avatars like information-age marionettes. [Wired News]
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- Rolling Stone's New Direction: Networking - The original name-brand rock mag will roll its own online offerings and JAMTV's tech savvy into a cybercasting, retailing, and editorial service called Rolling Stone Network. [Wired News]
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- Royal Icing - No matter how or why Diana died, you'd have been able, somehow, to enjoy it. Because no matter how you slice it, or them, the moral quality of celebrity is best understood as porn. [Wired News]
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- Rushkoff's Ecstasy to Hit Silver Screen - A new novel by the cyber-chronicler gets a big-league Hollywood deal with Miramax. Douglas Rushkoff debriefs. [Wired News]
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- S.P.(U.T.U.)M. Shames Spammer into a Rage - The police unit for the Church of the SubGenius is battling an angry spammer who's threatening a million-dollar suit. [Wired News]
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- Saatchi & Saatchi Gets an 'Idea' - The company says it's no longer an 'ad agency' but an 'ideas company' that will help foster conversations between individuals, businesses, nations, even planets. [Wired News]
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- Sagan Monument Brings Sense of Space to Earth - A collection of 10 monoliths arranged as a scale model of the solar system will be dedicated Saturday on the ground where the astronomer taught. [Wired News]
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- Salon Dishes Details of Feb Makeover - Editor David Talbot adds right-wing columnist, rejects push media couch potatoes. [Wired News]
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- Satellite of Love - All you honeymooners who wanna go to the Moon - or thereabouts - start packing. [Wired News]
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- Satirical Science Pubs Locked in Humorless Suit - The publisher of the Journal of Irreproducible Results has slapped the Annals of Improbable Research with a not-so-funny lawsuit, alleging readership theft. [Wired News]
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- Saving Pac-Man for Posterity - Programmers use emulators to hack their childhood arcade obsessions onto today's computers. [Wired News]
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- Say It Ain't So - The stagnant pond of contemporary fiction hasn't bred the Dickensian epic Tom Wolfe hoped for; it's grown an algae of Literary Memoirs, books whose main appeal is that they Really Happened. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Don't Try This at Home - Kal Spelletich creates postindustrial folk art that pushes boundaries of art using interactive machines. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Fear of a Schwa Planet - Aliens! Newly released Schwa World Operations Manual points a green finger at the dehumanizing forces of marketing, business, and legal protocol from the veil of a how-to guidebook. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Foghorn Maestro - With an unlikely combination of salvaged Coast Guard foghorns and a diesel-powered air compressor, guerrilla musician Jason Gorski has developed a 140-decibel one-man symphony. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Idoru Feminism - Reiko Chiba wants to use her Web pages to change Japanese society. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Merriam Webster of High Tech - Whatis.com, courtesy of Lowell Thing, helps non-techies decipher the language of the Net. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Real Tests for Real Kids - Morgan Media creates qualitative assessment tools for educators that break the tyranny of standardized testing. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Telecom Freedom Fighters - Underdog RCN Corporation goes fist to cuffs with Bell Atlantic in an attempt to overthrow the telecommunications giant. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Television Nation - MED-TV broadcasts to the stateless nation of Kurdistan, seeking to provide a platform for development of Kurdish culture, language, and communication. [Wired News]
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- Scans: The Great Pumpkin Goes Ballistic - Projectile pumpkins fill the skies of Lewes, Delaware, where 35,000 are expected to attend the 13th Annual Punkin Chunkin competition. [Wired News]
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- Scenes from the Marriage of Audio and Video - Emergency Broadcast Network has built a reputation for works combining hyperkinetic sampling that is at once disturbing and funny. In its new outing, the band's going for a seamless whole. [Wired News]
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- Scenes from the Marriage of Audio and Video - Emergency Broadcast Network has built a reputation for works combining hyperkinetic sampling that is at once disturbing and funny. In its new outing, the band's going for a seamless whole. [Wired News]
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- Schmios Give Clios a Kick in the Ads - The industry's annual self-congratulatory ritual yielded the usual honors, but the accolades for the most patently offensive and insidious ads were doled out the night before. [Wired News]
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- Schools Sell Screensaver Ad Space to Pepsi - In Ontario, Pepsi and McDonald's are spreading their word via classroom computers. [Wired News]
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- Sci-Fi Site Stole Trade Secrets, Sony Says - But the "Wolf Blitzer of the Internet" claims his is a news - not a fan - site, and deserves to stay up. [Wired News]
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- Sci-Tech Oscar Hopefuls Strut Their Geeky Stuff - An evening's demonstration of technical devices under consideration for awards mixed showmanship with a twisted sense of humor and style. [Wired News]
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- Science Center Looks Ahead, Reaches Back - It's not as flashy as its next-door-neighbor-to-be, the Experience Music Project building, but French architect Denis Laming's design combines a background in historic sites with futuristic visions. [Wired News]
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- Scorned Spammer Floods Net with Fake Threats - Messages sent from an apparently disgruntled customer and purporting to be from Samsung send Netizens scurrying to proclaim they're not email terrorists. [Wired News]
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- Search Engine for DIYers May Be Too Good to Last - The DIY Search provides lists of do-it-yourself projects. But like many DIY projects, its eventual success could mean its eventual doom. [Wired News]
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- Secret Admirer Plays Darts with Love - Cupid's come-ons can now be emailed, but good luck figuring out who sent it, or trying to give it back. [Wired News]
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- Secret Prankster Fund Goes Public - ®TMark will pay saboteurs for acts of creative subversion against mass-produced items. [Wired News]
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- Seeing Stars - Recently translated from Russian into English, Omon Ra captures the voice of postglasnost hip with a roboticized expedition to the Moon. [Wired News]
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- Sega Cuts Game Prices, Software Ties - Sega answers Sony and Nintendo price drops with a cut of roughly 50 percent. Meanwhile, SegaSoft releases its final game in the Saturn format. [Wired News]
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- Sex and the Wired Senior - Third Age prepares to launch a site designed to offer people of a certain age "a safe place to listen, talk, and explore" their sex lives. [Wired News]
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- SF's Resident Aliens to Play Anniversary Bash - Marking 25 years of inscrutability, the legendarily mysterious and eyeball-wearing band's efforts will include a series of live multimedia shows, a retrospective CD set, and the soundtrack to an indie film. [Wired News]
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- ShadowServer Creates Mysterious Web Art - A telerobotic project lets viewers interact with the most basic of electronic circuits - the lightbulb. [Wired News]
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- She Started Shy, and Now Shows It All on Web - 'The Shy Exhibitionist' has launched a 'club' of interested members who pay to see the chronicles of her public exposure. [Wired News]
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- Shipwrecked in Voyage to Salvation - Don't blame it on bits, says Steve Silberman: Heaven's Gate tragedy underlines need for the Net as a community-building tool. [Wired News]
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- Short Films Get Long Attention - Six of the top 200 entries from the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival - many of which highlight the growing power of consumer-level filmmaking tools - will go on to Oscars competition. [Wired News]
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- Shrink Speaks: The Net Is Addictive - Too much of a good thing makes mental health professionals nervous: At an American Psychological Association panel in Chicago, a Pennsylvania psychologist has created a buzz by concluding that many online suffer from "pathological Internet use." [Wired News]
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- Sidewalk Caught Between Local and Global - Each of the similarly designed Sidewalk offices around the world has one mandate: Be unique. [Wired News]
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- Sidewalk Finally Hits Streets of San Francisco - Where do Bay Area netizens want to go today? It's taken Microsoft a long time to decide. [Wired News]
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- Sidewalk Losing Editorial Independence - Redmond has decreed that its Cinemania and Music Central properties will provide Sidewalk with its movie and music reviews. Some city producers are not happy. [Wired News]
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- Siggraph Goes Hollywood - The influence of the film industry - plastic glamour and all - is strongly evident at this year's computer-graphics extravaganza. But nothing can compete with the over-the-top spectacles of NT and SGI slugging it out. [Wired News]
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- Silicon Alley Revels with NY Film World - A wild weekend ball in NY brought filmmakers and webmasters together in the bowels of a dredged boat. [Wired News]
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- Silicone Sirens Sizzle Like a Sex Machine - A special effects artist and a cyberporn mastermind join forces to build and market a $4,000 love doll. The makers are selling the life-sized Realdolls at one a day, and are considering an AI enhancement. [Wired News]
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- Silver Screen Snake-Bytes Upgrade Robotics - The 3,000 pound crawling machine used in Anaconda required the use of 140 joints run by 250-horsepower hydraulic pumps, and 3 gigaflops of custom-assembled processing power. [Wired News]
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- Simon and Schuster's Wired Lesson Plan - The textbook publisher is building an online education network by taking something old and making it new - on the Web. [Wired News]
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- Sims Put Students Safely in the Driver's Seat - It seemed logical to make an instructional program out of auto-racing-game engines, but building the model from scratch was the only way to keep teens from becoming crash-movie material. [Wired News]
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- Site Brings Veni, Vidi ... Community to the Web - To build its online community, AncientSites encourages classical scholars and schoolkids alike to stagger from the Tiber to the wine shop of Rome. Babylon and Machu Picchu are next. [Wired News]
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- Site Spoofs Hacks, Touts Adversarial Computing - DigiCrime.com may give you a glimpse into the thorny future of security on the Net - or it may crash your browser. [Wired News]
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- Six Ways to Say 'What's Your Age and Sex?' - A chat service called Uni-Verse tries to break down degrees of separation among six languages. It's an imperfect but important step toward its goal. [Wired News]
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- Skimming through TV History - The Digital Libraries conference highlights the demise of the Dewey Decimal System and introduces an information-rich, MTV-esque catalog of clips of everything from guest stars to camera angles. [Wired News]
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- Slime Mold: It's the Sign of Web Life - We have some remnants of control, but the Web is evolving at astonishing speed. Steven Alan Edwards finds it is wonderfully weird, unpredictable, and alive. [Wired News]
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- Small Is Beautiful? - Since nanotech promises an unprecedented degree of control over matter, much of its appeal lies far less in what can be achieved than in what can be extrapolated. [Wired News]
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- Smaller Is Deeper for Jewish Study Site - An online 'community of learning' helps Jews in scattered locations study family issues. Organizers believe small groups will encourage intimacy and sharing. [Wired News]
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- Smut Shack Defenders Make Waves - Web dwellers are showing solidarity and changing their site names to include the word shack. [Wired News]
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- Snailmail from the 21st Century - What the Net might look like in the over-regulated next millennium. [Wired News]
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- Snubbed by AOL, Kesmai Kicks Up a GameStorm - The multiplayer gaming company joins forces with other big names to take its first step onto the Web. [Wired News]
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- Someday My Prince Will Come ... - Anyone who doubts that women's lives are particularly complex, or that the media are profoundly and viscerally sexist, should have paid more attention during the media frenzy of the past month. [Wired News]
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- Sonic Boom: The Digital Reinvention of Music - Fueled by the Internet and digital technology, music is starting to undergo changes that could eventually dwarf the revolution of rock and roll - a radical shift in the way music is created, distributed, and listened to. Wired News looks at those changes in a three-part special report. [Wired News]
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- Sonic Worlds for Walkman's Children - It's no coincidence that the appeal of immersive soundtracks comes at a time of epidemic lust for powerful stereo equipment and a desire for artificial environments. [Wired News]
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- SonicNet Buys Trouser Press Record Guide - The spinoff of the defunct music magazine is expected to go live on or around 1 February. [Wired News]
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- SonicNet Revives Seminal Rock Guide Online - A Net spin-off of the classic but out-of-print Trouser Press encyclopedia premieres next month. [Wired News]
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- Sony Launches a Web 'Play Station' - Leveraging first its own products, the new site will support "fun and games" of any category. [Wired News]
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- Sony Thinks, Boasts Big for SF IMAX - The site is still a big hole in the ground, but the conglomerate is already trumpeting that its upcoming IMAX entertainment centers will feature themed amusement landscapes linked to a nationwide network. [Wired News]
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- South Park Webcasters Told to Stop - Despite early success due to fans swapping Internet files, Comedy Central says it wants an end to Web streaming of the animated TV show. [Wired News]
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- Spielberg Plays, Prepares for GameWorks Launch - Mark Frauenfelder happens on Spielberg playing a motorcycle arcade game and buttonholes the Master. [Wired News]
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- Sports Site Drives for Celebrity Angle - Braving stiff competition, the indie sports zine Sports Celebrity Network pumps out more than just scores. [Wired News]
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- Staged Generosity Blooms at Avignon - The Net-based group Passion Theatre plans to give away 5,000 tickets to the venerable French fest - if recipients promise to write reviews. [Wired News]
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- Stampeding to the Erogenous Zones - High-brow online mags are getting down and sexy, adding saucy pillowtalk to their lineups. [Wired News]
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- Stanford Protests Rankings, Proposes Its Own - Tired of "specious formulas and spurious precision," Stanford invites colleges across the country to join it in creating a raw stats database. [Wired News]
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- Star-Searching in a Realm of Development - Attitude Networks and Macmillan team up to identify, attract, and showcase new gaming talent, while serving the playing public with gaming miscellanea. [Wired News]
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- Stars Aren't the Only Ones Headed for Space - The ashes of Gene Roddenberry and Timothy Leary will be accompanied into orbit by those of 22 others whose lives were informed by dreams of space travel. [Wired News]
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- Start-up-cum-Goliath Works Hard to Get Help - At 2,400 heads, suits, gurus, interns, and assorted mozillionaires and contractors and counting, it's harder than ever for Netscape to find qualified hands. Culture reporter Janelle Brown reports from the workplace. [Wired News]
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- Strange As It Ever Was - Rules don't apply, and expectations based on years past are equally worthless to Molly Wright Steenson. [Wired News]
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- Streamland Opens Shop on MTV's Fringe - SonicNet's video-on-demand site will offer music videos too esoteric for MTV's palate. Can it build enough leverage to become a serious rival to MTV as a home for music videos? [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Adventure Overload - Multibreasted gendermorphs, information overload, and the search for self-definition ... what more could a reader ask for? The new hypertext fiction Grammatron combines all these things and more. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Decentralize Yourself - Say goodbye to "the man"; we are all to blame! The folks at the MIT Media Lab have created a program to help decentralize your thoughts. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: My Other Car Is a Pentium 133 - Drive your dream car in Electronic Art's newest testosterone-packed driving simulation, Need For Speed II - Special Edition. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Tracks of my Mind - Notify CD helps software CD players list tracks by name. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Virtual Stimulation - Skateboard, ski, fly jets, and shoot big guns all in one afternoon. Experience the attractions at GameWorks, a spectacular entertainment center where Vegas meets Virtual Reality. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: A British Toy Story - The classic British animation, The Toy Town Story Adventures, is finally making its way to an American audience with another helping of British wit and genteel absurdity. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: A Fun Lesson in Comic Science - Animated CD-ROM characters crash to Earth and helps get kids thinking like scientists. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: A Zine with Cojones - Pocho Magazine provides an outlet for Latino humor that transcends the oversize schlock of Sabado Gigante. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Altered State - Matthew Collins' Altered state explores the genesis and culture of acid-house music and the drug Ecstasy from the UK to NYC. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: America's Edge - Edge City examines the development of suburban dwellers who live and work in their city, rarely visiting older metropolitan centers. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Amped - Mesa's Baron stereo tube amp overcomes stratospheric prices and traditionally quick deterioration. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: An Eye to the East - Eastern Standard Time decodes Asia's cultural exports, and does so with wit and sensibility. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Back to the Dungeon - In the labyrinthine world of NetHack, the complexity of the chase masks the game's deceptively simple interface. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Body Manipulation - Though fixed in its original state, an Alan Rath sculpture takes on new shape and life when it is transformed to a screensaver. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Cultural Hot Links - Norman Weinstein reviews a book and CD-ROM anthology which focuses on the cultural consequences of electronic technology. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Cyberpunk's Patient Zero - Marc Laidlaw reviews John Shirley's recently re-released City Come A-Walkin' [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Feats of Clay - Zach Meston reviews Neverhood, a CD-ROM masterpiece combining devious point-and-click puzzles with hysterical clay animation. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Final Fantasy - Final Fantasy offers game geeks a future that is dramatically surreal and constantly compelling. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Freud as Fraud - In Yes, We Have No Neutrons. A. K. Dewdney places some controversial scientific studies under the microscope. Few survive the scrutiny. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Hans Across Amsterdam - You'll find a hero worth his title in Dark Horse Comics' latest graphic novel, Triple-X International. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: I Shot the Sheriff - Gamers take on a scheming railroad tycoon and his band of thugs in Outlaws, a LucasArts spaghetti western. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Killer Bs on VHS - Hard-to-obtain B-movie classics are buried in the back pages of Visionary's catalog. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Make a Scene - Create your own movie, write your own script, and animate the characters in Theatrix Interactive's Hollywood High. The voice feature isn't exactly stellar, but even this can be manipulated. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Marvelously Tooned - Coober Skeber is an anthology that stars only Marvel characters in a completely unauthorized set of adventures. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Nintendo's Crafty Fox - Expectations for a sequel to the 1991 hit Star Fox have been palpably high; but after a six year lapse, Star Fox 64 proves that what Nintendo lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: On the Mark - The new coffeetable staple, Marks of Excellence, strolls down logo lane unraveling the visual candy of pop culture. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Paternal Pride - Put down your joystick and pick up Princess Maker 2, a computer game that will challenge your parenting instincts instead of your trigger finger. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Poetry in Motion Platforms - In the world of immersive entertainment, Iwerks Reactor means business. Dino Island is one of the best rides you'll find outside a theme park. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Power Plant - Sadie Plant's latest book Zeros and Ones features historical accounts of women in technology. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Pynchon Toes the Line - In Mason & Dixon, author Thomas Pynchon traces the friendship of two men whose histories were forever merged in the creation of America's most decisive geographical line. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Relive Your Youth - The interactive movie, The Twelve Loveliest Things I Know, lets you take a look behind the scenes of a child's life and gives you a peek at the little critters' softer side. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Safety Essentials - From haz-mat suits to wrist supports, this catalog has it all. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Sextoons - Birds do it, bees do it, and so do cartoon characters in Sextoons: An Erotic Animation Festival. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Sonic Chemistry - Christopher Kelly has presented a loving tribute to the turntablist in Deep Concentration, an audio CD/CD-ROM double disc set. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Space Jam - Andrei Ujica's Out of the Present has all the makings of a thriller rather than a documentary, yet it's the human element that really shines. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: The Engineering Coup - In his latest tome, G. Pascal Zachary spotlights history-bending American engineer Vannevar Bush and his legacy in modern culture. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: The Sponsored Life - Seemingly benign spots take on a nefarious air as filmmakers turn the camera on Madison Avenue in a new documentary, The Ad and the Ego. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: The Underbelly of Business - Temp Slave is a collection of stories written by pink-collar employees who are ignored, ridiculed, and abused by clueless managers. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Visualize Tufte - When the reigning guru of information design writes a new book, you bet you read it. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Wo/Man-Machine Interface - Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life, is a collection of essays that place the age-old question in a contemporary setting. [Wired News]
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- Streetcred: A Life Uncoded - Ellen Ullman explores seduction, disjunction, and technology in her memoirs, Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents. [Wired News]
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- Student News Service Takes On Minority Media Gap - Citing a need for media relevant to black students, The Black World Today's new Campus Beat section will feature stories drawn from student journalists nationwide. [Wired News]
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- Student.Net Graduates to Corporate Big Time - US West targets Ivy League demographic by snapping up the student-created site. [Wired News]
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- Students Voyage to Bottom of Sea, Virtually - The JASON Project, founded by the man who discovered the Titanic, seeks to connect kids to scientific exploration by taking them along for the ride, both on the ocean and on the Web. [Wired News]
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- Suck: A Fan's Footnotes - Pop-Up costs just US$30,000 per episode to produce, and regularly earns a 0.5 Nielsen rating, a return on investment that is apparently so attractive that the show's two creators have been able to parlay it into four spin-offs for VH-1's upcoming season. [Wired News]
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- Suck: Ads Appropriate Culture - Microsoft is by no means the first advertiser to bend pop to its own will. [Wired News]
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- Suck: Ars Attacks - People may be going to museums in record numbers, but so what? You still can't buy blacklight posters in the gift shop. [Wired News]
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- Suck: Critical Mask - The gap between our lives and the way we see them: Examination of this tricky subject, only visible out of the corner of the eye, is the study of ideology. [Wired News]
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- Suck: If You Can Get It - While TV has exploited the workplace as a setting for wacky hijinks and poignant drama, Working tries to cover that same ground with the special ambivalence (formerly known as cynicism, angst, and post-irony) of the entry-level Gen Xer. [Wired News]
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- Suck: Luxe Populi - This season is less about a particular style of dressing appropriated from mass culture than about a more emotive attitude toward consumption itself. [Wired News]
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- Suck: Miss Judged - It seems less like a coincidence than fate that the very week Miss America unveiled a widening gap between bikini top and bottom, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that for the first time since 1979, the gap between pay for men and women is widening as well. [Wired News]
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- Suck: News of the Weak - Hypothesis: Weekly newsmagazines have mutated into upscale tabloids to match the new news environment. [Wired News]
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- Suck: Pleased to Meat You - There can be little mistake about what's on the table in most American homes: dead, cooked mammals (pass the ketchup). [Wired News]
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- Suck: Rolling Papers - Somehow, somewhere, alternative journalism became an attitude rather than something anyone actually does. [Wired News]
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- Suck: Still Crazy After All These Weeks - The siege of Shirley Allen existed below the Baby Jessica radar of eccentric human-interest stories almost from the moment it began in late September. [Wired News]
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- Suck: The Gospel According to Luke - On 1 October, the kid with the New Testament name preached an Old Testament schoolyard sermon, allegedly killing two classmates with a rifle and wounding seven others. [Wired News]
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- Suck: Trust No One - Don't blame money for loyalty's slump; even when people wrote in stone, relationships weren't as firmly etched. Abraham was the first to find out that God and Family are conflicting interests. [Wired News]
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- Summer Shark Swims in Seas of Web Hype - Bantam Doubleday Dell is offering a $500 bounty for the best fan site promoting its new summer chiller. [Wired News]
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- Sundance Crawler: Stumbling Toward Tomorrow - Film festival looks for the future, finds ambivalence. [Wired News]
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- Sundance Plans Indie Cinema Chain - The extra exposure for the niche is welcome for sure, but will Robert Redford's independent-film vision project its way to screen profits? [Wired News]
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- Survey Says ... Read It - Brad Weiners reviews Within the Context of No Context, a look at American culture in context. [Wired News]
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- Symantec Bears Topless Protest - Mud-smeared dancers show their breasts and their opposition to an anti-nudity cry written on Symantec letterhead. Symantec says it was two employees, not the company, who sent the letter to the city council. [Wired News]
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- Tabloids R Us - What the paparazzi do is wrong, whether or not it's illegal, whether or not it gets anyone killed. There's no excuse for them. But they don't buy their own pictures. We buy them. [Wired News]
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- Taking Aliens for a Swim - A digital-effects presentation at New York's Museum of the Moving Image hopes to highlight the Big Apple's effects industry. [Wired News]
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- Taking Antibiotics? Be Cautious and Thorough - Dr. Weil discusses when and how to take antibiotics, and suggests a few natural alternatives. [Wired News]
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- Taking Chat from the Net to the Phone - A new service allows chat acquaintances to speak over the phone, anonymously. [Wired News]
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- Taking Email to the Stage - Don't delete that pithy message: Ira Glass, host of the public radio program This American Life, is creating an email performance. [Wired News]
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- Tamagotchi Moves In on the Desktop - An in-the-works CD-ROM version courts more mature masters and promises to be more complex than the handheld hatchlings. But the dangers of virtual petricide lurk even in the PC neighborhood. [Wired News]
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- Tamagotchi, Schmamagotchi: Here Come the Norns - Mindscape is preparing to release a new breed of playful screen-dwelling pets popular in Europe. [Wired News]
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- Tapers Aid DAT-Makers - A Deadhead trader helps orchestrate an alliance that enables fans of psychedelic "jam bands" to roll their own high-quality bootlegs. [Wired News]
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- Teaching Complex Mechanics, Naturally - The Robot Zoo, a traveling exhibit opening next week, translates animals' actions into a mechanical process that imitates beasts. [Wired News]
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- Tech Goliaths Set Sights on Online Gaming - MCI and Sony announce new entertainment ventures, as Microsoft joins up with Hasbro - the maker of Monopoly. [Wired News]
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- Techno-Art Invades Wall Street - Half science fair, half carnival, New York's Art Exchange sets up outsider art inside a near-abandoned skyscraper. [Wired News]
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- Technology Is Mecca for These Believers - Macintosh. Java. Internet. Magick. Zen Buddhism. Gnosticism. Technology and spirituality are fusing into one. [Wired News]
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- Technology Scores for Football Bettors - Data networks are changing the sports betting industry. [Wired News]
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- TechWeb Says Columnist Was Plagiarizing - "He looked legitimate," but turned out to be stealing his stuff from Fortune, says the online publication's top editor. Now Viro Valian has been fired. [Wired News]
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- TED Brings 'Technotainment' Gathering to NYC - The first Big Apple version of the quintessential West Coast digerati schmoozefest brings together the movers and shakers of tech, entertainment, and technology. [Wired News]
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- TEN Offers Gamers Email and Net Access - Subscribers want an ISP that's reliable, but TEN - for one - hopes they also want one that plays around. [Wired News]
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- The Art of Noises - Reviews the book and CD boxed set Gravikords, Whirlies, Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments. [Wired News]
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- The Auteur, the Hype, His Aide, Her Skepticism - Peter Greenaway is promoting his next film as a movie that will also appear on CD-ROM and over the Internet. But his assistant says the ambitious project may take some time. [Wired News]
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- The Blind Leading the Blinkered - Visually impaired people are online - and getting nervous about rising GUI chauvinism. [Wired News]
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- The Cracks in Microsoft's Sidewalk - Besides preventing journalists from practicing their craft, why did Microsoft's seemingly infallible model crumble? A recent study may shed some light. [Wired News]
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- The Cult Life of Rancho Santa Fe - Residents of the low-profile, highbrow San Diego suburb should have known the cult members were different: They didn't join the country club. [Wired News]
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- The Draw of Zany Insurrection - Despite a yearly loss of intimacy, a festival that celebrates humanity's surreal impulses is enough to keep Brad Wieners coming back. [Wired News]
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- The Entrepreneur Next Door - Persian Kitty's Adult Links has become a veritable Yahoo of Web smut. [Wired News]
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- The Gap Tries On VRML - Will It Fit? - A VR store on the Web could point to a new way of getting customers' money - or a new way for companies to waste it. [Wired News]
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- The Global Otaku - A group of American expats is reaching out to others on the Web, sharing trivia, chitchat, and their sometimes bizarre obsessions with Japanese pop culture. [Wired News]
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- The Internet Ate My Husband! - The cautionary tale of a woman whose marriage was put to the test by a Net habit out of control. [Wired News]
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- The Medium is the Messager - Email goes real time as instant-messaging efforts sprout like wildflowers. [Wired News]
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- The Net is the True Melting Pot - Steve Silberman finds that on the Net, your enemies may also be your neighbors. [Wired News]
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- The Next Spam You See May Be Fake - An anonymous group has plans to alter and repost mass email in an attempt to discredit spammers. [Wired News]
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- The Rabbi Is in - and a Hit on AOL - "Ask a Rabbi" conveys a fascinating patchwork portrait of Jewish life, and lets people of all faiths "sit there with their funny screen names and be anonymous Jews." [Wired News]
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- The Soaps Don't Float - Despite trying really hard, most Web soaps just haven't made it. Here's the dish. [Wired News]
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- The Ultimate Mind-Machine Interface - Electric Garden's most exciting interfaces put the human in the center - liberated from the shackles of joysticks and wires. [Wired News]
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- The Universe of Demo Tapes - After years of reviewing tapes from unsigned bands, Jim Santo has launched a site to feed fans who prefer their music raw. [Wired News]
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- The War against Fandom - Somewhere between big-media lawyers and obsessive fan sites lies a battlefield. [Wired News]
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- The Way We Weren't - Mining the past's abundance has become routine and conventional. [Wired News]
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- The Web Still Sucks - Suck's not going away. [Wired News]
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- The Web's an Old Trick to Dobermann Director - Jan Kounen was packing his homepage with production arcana long before it became de rigueur in Hollywood. [Wired News]
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- The World Wide Library - What the WWW is to society - a cheap, frictionless, ageographical counterpart - the WWL would be to physical libraries. [Wired News]
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- Theme Me up, Scotty - The Las Vegas Hilton is setting up a US$70 million Star Trek theme park. But it's Vegas travelers, not Trekkers, who are being courted. [Wired News]
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- They Came from Beyond Hollywood - Starting next week, the B-Movie Channel - think Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Bikini Squad, and The Beast with a Million Eyes - goes on the air 24 hours a day. [Wired News]
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- ThinkFish Toons Out 3-D Realism - Photorealism is a great holy grail, but so is clowning around and bouncing the market on its ear and out of its rut. [Wired News]
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- Third Age Seeks to Redefine Aging - If you're looking for role models for growing older with grace, turn off your TV and visit Third Age Media - a place for the first wave of knowledge workers as they face retirement. [Wired News]
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- This Revolution Is Not Being Televised - As minority-owned broadcast media are sucked up by conglomerates, blacks are turning to the Net for news and representation. [Wired News]
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- Ticketmaster Sues Microsoft over Sidewalk Links - Claiming that Sidewalk Seattle is "cherry-picking" its site, Ticketmaster takes on Microsoft's first city guide. [Wired News]
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- Ticketmaster-CitySearch Tighten 'Headlock' - The two companies plan to combine online ticketing with local information about restaurants, clubs, movie listings, and shopping sites. [Wired News]
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- Tiger Electronics Enters Handheld Killing Field - Although Nintendo's Game Boy has the market covered, a little machine called game.com is hoping that Internet functionality will help it make a splash. [Wired News]
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- Time for a Conscience - After the death of Princess Diana, it's time to put the idea of press freedom into perspective so that it can be used as a weapon against corruption rather than as a shield behind which to hide our own industry's gradual moral disintegration. [Wired News]
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- Time for Alt.Culture to Alter Name? - The principals behind the youth-culture guide book aren't worried about button-down interference as their project debuts on Time Warner's Web world. But they'll come whining if they need to. [Wired News]
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- Time Inc. Acquires Dr. Weil Site - The doctor's popular health advice will move from the HotWired Network to Pathfinder beginning in June. [Wired News]
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- Times to Add All the Culture That's Fit for Bits - With the February launch of its new Circuits section, The Newspaper of Record is aiming beyond high tech's money-making news and into the heart of technology's social impact. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9258.html
- Titans Brace for Uprising - Music distribution over the Internet is inevitable. But the giant industry, with decades-old habits, doesn't know how to adapt. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/7943.html
- Tokyo Unveils Media Art Museum - Toshio Iwai's "Seven Memories of Media Technology" is the first exhibit visitors will see when ICC opens Friday. [Wired News]
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- Top VR Guns Shoot for Air-War Superiority - Aiming their joysticks at beefed-up graphics and a dumbed-down simulator from US Air Force training, pilots from 18 countries wage virtual war at the Royal International Air Tatoo. [Wired News]
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- Town Beckons Little Green Money Men - The UFO Encounter Festival helps Roswell, the legendary alien-landing site, rebound from its near-ghost-town low with renewed vigor and a more fluid sense of history. [Wired News]
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- Tracking the 'Successful' Drug User - A new survey attempts to challenge common assumptions that most drug users can't be well-adjusted. By conducting the survey on the Web, researchers hope to reach the educated and affluent, in privacy. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/7055.html
- Travel-Guide Pioneer Frommer Explores Web - The man who sent a generation to Europe on US$5 a day sees the Net as his next logical step, in keeping with his lifetime message of individual empowerment. [Wired News]
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- Traveling Beyond the Past to Experience Anew - Rebecca Eisenberg tells why it helped to see this year's event through the eyes of newbies. [Wired News]
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- Tribe Plans Myst-Like Museum - Connecticut's Pequot channel profits from their casino into lush, interactive archaeology. [Wired News]
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- Trilobyte Assaults On-Line Game Market - The developer of The 7th Guest moves Web-ward - but online profits are elusive. [Wired News]
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- Trilobyte Assaults On-Line Game Market - The developer of The 7th Guest moves Web-ward - but online profits are elusive. [Wired News]
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- Trilobyte Assaults On-Line Game Market - The developer of The 7th Guest moves Web-ward - but online profits are elusive. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/1629.html
- Tripod Creates a Zine University - Tired of bland homepages, Tripod has commissioned some of the best zine publishers to help people create wonderful Web sites. [Wired News]
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- Troubled 3-D Worlds Get Smaller - Worlds Inc. downsizes as the 3-D environment business tries to find its place on the Web. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/1471.html
- Troubling Side of Tech, Faith Convergence - The mass cult suicide poses questions about the effects of a virtual life leading to a Gnostic worldview. [Wired News]
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- Tuning In to the Special Report - The Internet and digital technology are causing a radical shift in the way music is created, distributed, and listened to. Wired News examines these changes in a three-day special report. [Wired News]
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- Turning Old Stories into New Tales - A Web-based art project calls on older people to contribute autobiographical material, which other artists will draw upon to construct lengthier, fictional autobiographies. [Wired News]
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- TV Networks Get Attuned to the Web - Fox, NBC, and ABC finally realize there's more to the Web than just setting up glorified ads for TV shows. [Wired News]
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- Twice Removed: Locked Up and Barred from Net - The world may be getting wired, but prison officials say logging on is incompatible with incarceration. [Wired News]
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- Typing into Hell in Honor of AIDS Dead - The Plaintext Players are performing a Net-based, text-only play, "Silent Orpheus," as part of the International World AIDS Day and Day Without Art. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/8856.html
- U2 Launches Futuristic PopMart Extravaganza - Bono and friends crash Kmart to preview high-tech, high-kitsch world tour. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2014.html
- UK's Guardian Newspaper Closes Webzine - Shift Control was an ambitious and well-funded attempt by England's Guardian newspaper to forge an online presence. Witty and upbeat, it never seemed to connect with its niche, and its end came as little surprise to British Web-watchers. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/7302.html
- Unconvention Zeroes in on UFO Research - Researchers and the curious are once again gathering to examine the weird world of things Fortean. [Wired News]
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- Undernet Shaken by Anti-Porn Crusade - An evangelist who claims that his God-given calling is to "make America straighter and whiter" is causing anguish on the Undernet. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/1469.html
- Universities Irked by Yahoo Ratings System - The "100 Most Wired Colleges" report has earned Yahoo a bad grade from upset colleges. [Wired News]
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- University Kills Students' Security Site - AntiOnline, a resource for those interested in computer security, has been shut down and access to the network denied to the two University of Pittsburgh students who ran the site. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/8685.html
- USGA Says Web Site Slices into its Turf - The golf association wants to retain its monopoly on handicapping, and tells a Web site to cease and desist. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/1825.html
- UUNET Given the 'Death Penalty' - The major backbone ISP is targeted by some sys admins' 'cancelbot' in response to intense volume of spam issued from its dial-ups. [Wired News]
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- Velvet Rope Bolts over AOL 'Censorship' - The fount of music-industry gossip will move to the Web, as the moderator of the exclusive forum refuses to pay extra for the right to swear. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/5420.html
- Vengeance on AOL is Yours, Sayeth SegaSoft - Jumping on the bandwagon of resentment sweeping the AOL world, SegaSoft unleashes its defacing software. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/1875.html
- Vet's Site Chronicles Deadly 'Atomic Duty' - As Desert Storm vets contend with the possibility of a government cover-up of their exposure to nerve gas, a survivor of Cold War A-bomb experiments tells his story on a powerful Web site. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2425.html
- Videoconferencing Tops This Month's Hype List - Other overhyped memes: Stamps of Approval, War for Eyeballs, Smart Pagers, Progressive Rock. [Wired News]
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- Videogaming by Degree - Several schools now offer degree programs in videogame design. While arguments over the different programs' merits are numerous and heated, the quickly growing industry needs workers. [Wired News]
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- Viewing Source at Heaven's Gate - The words behind the pages on the suicide cult's Web site. [Wired News]
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- Vigilantes Grant UUNET Stay of Execution - The administrators who issued the "Death Penalty" against UUNET have taken it back, citing a reduction in spam issued from the ISP's servers. A little legal bluster didn't hurt either. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/5829.html
- Village Voice-MS Alliance Just a 'Data Deal' - The independent weekly will provide raw entertainment listings for Sidewalk - just like it does for Yahoo New York. So what's the fuss? [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2150.html
- Virgin Net Users Get the Big ByeBye - An annoying cracker called ByeBye is kicking users off Virgin's server and crashing their machines. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2187.html
- Virtual Babies Just Need Bandwidth - Participants at the Virtual Humans Conference hail coming simulations to serve and entertain. [Wired News]
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- Virtual Communities: The Next Hot Major? - MIT researchers and online icons like Howard Rheingold and Amy Bruckman ponder the academic study of online interaction. [Wired News]
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- Virtual Jukeboxes to Ensure Pay-for-Play over Net - The UK's Cerberus Central has teamed up with the Harry Fox Agency to make sure musicians get their due. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/4290.html
- Virtual Plants, Insects Twine through Net - Nerve Garden's algorithmically fueled 'mini-Cambrian explosions' begin at Siggraph, and continue to mutate on the Web. [Wired News]
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- Visions of Connectivity - From the inner sanctum to the Outer Limits, everybody's a nobody - like you - on the Net. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2018.html
- VR Artist Re-Creates Paleolithic Times - The Caves of Lascaux are closed to tourists, but the curious can explore artist Benjamin Britton's VR simulation of the Paleolithic dwelling. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2199.html
- VRML-Pushers Still Eager to Hook Users - Mark Pesce's new animation company is trying to sell the VR language as a medium for storytelling. Despite VRML's mixed-success history, some recent coups seem encouraging. [Wired News]
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- Warner Bros. Steps onto Sidewalk's Turf - A network of city Web sites - sound familiar? [Wired News]
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- Web Content Slated for Wooden Books - Publishing companies are finding new works, new writers on the Web. [Wired News]
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- Web Designers Find Their Niche - Web builders are highlighting their expertise to make connections and get work in a crowded market. [Wired News]
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- Web Designers Square Off for Benefit Site - The Ironman Triathlon of Web design again pitted East Coast against West Coast in a battle to build the best site in just eight hours. [Wired News]
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- Web Draws Vintage Animation out of Attic - A leading animation buff puts his pre-WWII collection online. [Wired News]
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- Web Sight Sculpture Distends Sound - Musician and inventor Oliver DiCiccio unveils a new instrument using hard disks and an Internet metaphor. [Wired News]
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- Web Site Reunites Joni Mitchell and Daughter - Thanks to a fan's labor of devotion, this mother and child reunion was only a homepage away. [Wired News]
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- Web Survey Targets Queer Youth - Benefiting from the perception of safety that online anonymity allows, a magazine for 'queer and questioning' youth expands a marketing survey with hopes of building a comprehensive picture of the little-documented group. [Wired News]
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- Web-Site Force Is With Hasbro, Not Lucas - The toy company's site vies for a piece of the Star Wars merchandising action. [Wired News]
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- Webmaster Lets Sites Hack Themselves - Taking advantage of a browser flaw, the owner of graphics.com has been serving up subversive messages to sloppily coded business and government Web sites. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/7185.html
- Weekly Wire Brings the Weeklies Together - Alternative weekly papers serve up a variety of strong, independent writing - in isolation. An Arizona Web site is publishing the best of their work for a national audience. [Wired News]
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- Welcome Home, Dude! - A promotional nightmare will bring a safety-orange Simpsons home to one "lucky" winner. [Wired News]
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- WGA Lets Game Writers Fend for Themselves - Unlike film and television writers, game writers represented by the Writers Guild of America don't get pay or credit standards. The Computer Game Developers' Association wants to change that. [Wired News]
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- What is Coca-Cola? Sugar Plus Caffeine - An occasional Coke won't kill you, but it won't help you either, Dr. Weil says. [Wired News]
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- What to Wear for the Apocalypse - An unlikely show highlights fashions that allow us to survive in outer space, burning buildings, Arctic seas, and toxic waste sites. [Wired News]
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- Whatever Gets You through the Equinox - A convention this weekend will gather artists, writers, and techno-fetishists who are set on turning up the volume on the season of gloom by celebrating the dark side. [Wired News]
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- When Cars Fly.... - A DIY publisher in Detroit has compiled all the patent information on arcane auto inventions such as the "plasmatron internal combustion engine" and the "electric velocipede." [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/3880.html
- When Illness Worms Its Way In, Sushi's Fishy - Fish is health food, unless there are nematodes in your shime-saba. [Wired News]
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- When Movie Games Suck, Plan Ahead - Producer Mark Long has a solution for what he calls a flawed concept: Map out a project from the outset and you can have a blockbuster movie and videogame on your hands. [Wired News]
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- When News Breaks - If all your cyberdreams come true and Web media comes anywhere close to TV saturation, maybe we really can fix the traditional news media. [Wired News]
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- When Worlds Collude - Through an accident of killer apps, writers were the third major professional group to get online in any numbers. [Wired News]
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- Who's Behind the Curtain - The people you never see, the ones who come to work at noon and leave at midnight on a good day, are the ones who make a publication happen. [Wired News]
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- Why Filmmakers Wish Hard Drives Would Die - This year's Artists Rights Symposium, starting Thursday in Los Angeles, is studying the threats brought by free distribution of media. [Wired News]
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- Will PointCast Prosper in Its College Try? - College students are a wired lot, but whether they'll sit tethered to their terminals to be push-fed like legions of corporate customers is in doubt. [Wired News]
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- With Authority! Albert's Voice on Videogame - A new football videogame had entered production prior to the start of sports announcer's trial, says Acclaim. [Wired News]
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- Women Proto-Programmers Get Their Just Reward - Fifty years after they coded the world's first computer, a group of women will finally receive recognition for their work. [Wired News]
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- Women's Confabs Shun Boosterism for Business - Women of the tech industry are coming together to address issues of empowerment, employment, and education. [Wired News]
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- Women's Web Market Fit for Growth, New Pubs - Cond Nast and Wire Networks are tapping the burgeoning segment of the Net with health content sites aimed at women. [Wired News]
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- Won't You Please Help a Playmate? - Patti Tehaney says her Web site plea for work or handouts is not a scam - even though it looks like one. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2205.html
- Writers: Make Money Fast! - A journalist-driven site hopes to open economic boundaries by taking advantage of the Web's ability to track readers and subtract micropayments. [Wired News]
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- Wrongfully Branded Spammer May Sue ISP - Filmmaker Peter Hall is considering legal action against EarthLink because, he claims, it's still holding his email and hasn't restored service. The ISP says he was abusive, but is willing to make up. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/7258.html
- X-Files Exhibit Gives Props to Props - Items from 'the early years' of the sci-fi television show will be on display at a Hollywood museum. [Wired News]
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- You'll Never Learn Alone Again - Net-integrated collaborative writing software mirrors new workplace methods and raises the quality of students' work. Educators hope it also will provide relief to overcrowded classrooms. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/8641.html
- ZD, SpotMedia to Create Online Gaming Goliath - The two companies plan to tap into the demand for online gaming content with a site on ZDNet. [Wired News]
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- Zen Warriors of the Info Age - Tech execs are turning to Buddhism as a spiritual response to their frenzied market. So far, none have taken vows of poverty. [Wired News]
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- Zine Takes Tech to Task - Street Tech aims to cut through the gizmo-hype with a decidedly non-fetishistic bent. [Wired News]
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- Zines Left in Lurch by Bankrupt Distributor - Fine Print files for reorganization, in what may prove a fatal setback for zines trying to reach a mass audience. [Wired News]
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- Zinesters Cash in with Book Deals - Major publishing houses such as Crown, Holt, Simon and Schuster, and St. Martin's are releasing at least a dozen zine titles. [Wired News]
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- Zork Adds Subtitles - Activision acknowledges the game's large community of hearing-impaired players. [Wired News]
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- ZOWI Offers F/X to Shoestring Filmmakers - Francis Ford Coppola's new production studio will use cheaper computers to simulate special effects at a low cost, allowing more experimentation. [Wired News]
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