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- 'Armageddon' for Porn Sites - The leading advertiser of XXX galleries pulls down its banners. Is it the end of an only-on-the-Web success story or one of the biggest scams in Net history? By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15901.html
- 'Family' Site Gets Stung - The American Family Association supports blocking software, but calls the block against its own anti-gay rhetoric "hypocritical." By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12701.html
- 'Meteorite' Lands in Germany - A newly opened fantasy world, conceived by an Austrian artist with music by an American composer, is a museum, playground, and meditation zone all in one. By Sheryl Oring. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12940.html
- 'Nintendo Thumb' Points to RSI - Doctors say an increasing number of pint-sized patients are suffering from RSI, or repetitive-strain disorder. Computer use is the likely culprit. By Claudia Graziano. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16579.html
- 'Phantom Menace' Stalks the Net - Barely a week remains until the trailer for the eagerly awaited Star Wars prequel hits the silver screen. Fans are frothing at the keyboard. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16245.html
- 'The Best Search in History' - The A E Network launches two new digital-TV channels and revamps its Web sites. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16350.html
- 2-Inch Noir - Online video explorer Director Unknown hopes to preserve filmmakers' financial sanity by letting directors take their turns behind the cameras while others do the gruntwork, and then vice versa. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9486.html
- 2001's 30-Year Odyssey - A celebration for the 30th anniversary of the science-fiction epic gathered astronauts, actors, scientists, and the author, Arthur C. Clarke, who beamed in from a cybercafe in Sri Lanka. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12019.html
- 25 Women 'WoW' San Francisco - Female netheads choose from among their own the most influential women on the Web. A gamer, a senator, and a network journalist are among the honorees. By Joyce Slaton. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16689.html
- A 'Crossing Guard' for Net Hate - A watchdog organization develops software to block racist and anti-semitic sites from the eyes of young netsurfers. Is filtering hate speech a slippery slope? By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16197.html
- A 3D Tour of Silicon History - Technology's mecca builds a shrine to let visitors tinker alongside the inventors. Silicon Valley's Tech Museum of Innovation opens its doors this weekend. By Beverly Hanly. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15887.html
- A Chance for Vegas Literature - The truth is stranger than fiction -- and poetry. The land of the one-armed bandits is so cultured it has spawned a literary webzine. By Vince Beiser. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15655.html
- A Conduit to Digital Evolution - The higher tech, lower budget sibling to Austin's South By Southwest festival looks to the future of filmmaking by showcasing hidden creations from digital workshops. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10926.html
- A Crash Pad for Cinema Lovers - When Cinemania canned Jim Emerson, he whipped up a site for serious film lovers. In the can since April, it plays Emerson as a can-do kinda guy. By Dave McCoy. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13674.html
- A Future Up for Grabs - Academics, journalists, and their confederates head to Los Angeles to discuss what our visions about technology imply for the future -- and what they say about our present condition. By Jennifer Hattam. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16083.html
- A Gala of Games - Amid the smoke-filled circus that is the E3 conference, game developers are strutting their newest creations: medieval villages, a cyberpunk gunslinger, Asteroids, and Lara Croft, off to Antarctica. By James Glave. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12621.html
- A Life too Brief - Dave Farber remembers Postel's eager mind as a post-graduate student. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15680.html
- A Little Respect - Every artist dreams of having work recognized by a major museum or gallery, but changing the definition of art to include digital pieces is a long process. By Reena Jana. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14173.html
- A Low-Key Mitnick Protest - A small clutch of hackers gathered in Manhattan this afternoon to peacefully protest a forthcoming film that they say wrongly depicts Kevin Mitnick, their imprisoned colleague. By Maureen Callahan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13792.html
- A Lusty Literary Lady - The newest equation of cyberspace: computer-game technology plus erotic literature equals S.L.U.T. By Reena Jana. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16928.html
- A New Venue for Digital Film - Remember the first movie clip you watched on the Web? It took forever to load and was thumbnail-sized. Well, New Venue can help you to forget it. By Marc Savlov. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13040.html
- A Petition Grows in Cyberspace - Leaders of the Censure and Move On campaign plan to make the US Congress end its impeachment inquiry -- and to prove just how much power Internet users can wield. By Robin Stevens. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15804.html
- A Portal to the Heart - Metajournals.com hopes to move online diaries to a new plateau, building a gateway from the realm of the personal to the universal. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13413.html
- A Shining Light on Toxic Threats - A new Web site gathers data from pollution databases far and wide into a useful resource, helping users to form a clearer picture of the effects of hazardous wastes. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11708.html
- A Virtual Field Trip to Africa - A cross-country bicyclist teams up with Classroom Connect to take thousands of students on a virtual pedal-pushing mystery tour through East Africa. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14909.html
- A Wizard Rests in Peace - Family, friends and officials gather in Los Angeles to remember Jon Postel, one of the founders of the Internet and a brilliant, sensitive human being. By James Glave. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16088.html
- A Zillion Games in One - A new computer game captures the fun of classic board games like chess. It's also liable to beat you at your own game. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17001.html
- ABC News Projects the Winner - ABC News posted election results on its Web site Monday night, at least 18 hours before the first votes had even been cast on Election Day. The company said the results were part of a test never meant to see the light of day. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16006.html
- Ad Lib - As advertising creeps into the furthest corners of our lives, it usurps human trifles like art, literature, and education. What's next on the block? Our souls? Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16568.html
- Adult Sites Are a Snap - Without fanfare, Snap Online sheds its wholesome image and begins including porn-site reviews in its Web directory. By Tony Long. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14144.html
- After Further Review ... - An overwhelming majority of football fans want the NFL to restore instant replay next season. Their plaintive cries flood the Internet. By Ronald Warren Deutsch. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16562.html
- Alexa's Gift to the Government - Alexa, the company that added a new dimension to Web searches, has given the Library of Congress a snapshot of the Web. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15615.html
- Aliens Land on AOL - The newest game on America Online comes from the Schwa Corp. Players can expect out-of-this-world conspiracies and subversive fun. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10465.html
- Aliens Out to Get Us - R.U. Sirius takes a look at two books that examine belief in and skepticism of alien abductions and conspiracy theories. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13107.html
- All Digital, All Weekend - Digital film is gaining ground on the popularity meter. This year's ResFest, visiting San Francisco this weekend, is the biggest and most promising yet. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15255.html
- All the Rage - To inform is to serve, and service as good as Fox's trash TV should probably be illegal in several states. Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16287.html
- AltaVista Says Ixnay to Electric Monk - One of the Web's largest search engines has cut off an innovative service that was siphoning results from its database. But where did all the links go? [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11829.html
- Ambulance Screams onto the Web - Silicon Alley designer Jaime Levy ports an in-your-face, punk-rock hypertext comic series from floppy discs to the Net. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10492.html
- An Opera Grows in Cyberspace - Hatched online, where it was developed with the help of over 60 contributors, honoria in ciberspazio still isn't finished. But an aria from the work will be showcased this week in Austin, Texas. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10946.html
- Anatomy of an Animator - Bob Sabiston, an artist-animator-filmmaker who began his multimedia work at MIT's Media Lab, is turning heads with software he developed to drive his MTV projects. By Marc Savlov. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13069.html
- And Man Created GOD - If you want to get your new publishing company noticed in the viciously competitive arena of computer games, naming it GOD isn't a bad way to start. By Karlin Lillington. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15343.html
- And the Milia Winners Are... - The Milia d'Or goes to the best Web sites represented at the multimedia conference; British site Scoot goes home with two golden statues. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10246.html
- And the Winner Is... - San Francisco and New York stage a steel-cage grudge match to win the affection of Tiffany Shlain and host the increasingly hip Webby Awards. By David Kushner. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14126.html
- Annoy.com Shows - But Doesn't Tell - In the wake of the McVeigh scandal, ApolloMedia launches 'titillating' contest to blast military policy on gays. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9721.html
- Anti-Drug Money Up In Smoke? - President Clinton has included Internet ad banners in his new anti-drug campaign. But how many crack smokers are going to catch -- and heed -- those banner ads? By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13634.html
- AOL Lays Off Content Staff With Lightspeed - AOL Studios let go of 40 Entertainment Asylum staffers yesterday, and another 65 on the WorldPlay team. Some cite creative differences, but AOL claims it's part of overall downsizing. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10237.html
- Apocalypse Fat - The big laffs and big bangs of Chris Farley's bye-bye. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9469.html
- Armageddon Ends Badly - No, not the movie, silly. A real-life enactment of the end of the world falls flat for some alt.slackers. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13466.html
- Artists in Space - While most of the participants in NASA's Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program will use their experience of micro-gravity to conduct science experiments, a group of San Francisco art students will test its effects on dance and painting. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11433.html
- As Porn Goes, So Goes the Web - The creators of Eroscan are confident that porn is driving the Internet. They think they've found a niche by dividing the endless varieties of carnal attractions into intelligent, easily navigable categories. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9580.html
- Ashes to Online - A Dutch company is bringing funerals to a monitor near you. By Jeroen van Bergeijk. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16193.html
- Attack of the Killer Shrews - The hectoring Dr. Laura stands at the forefront of a new order: The Rise of the Yenta. Courtesy of Suck. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16176.html
- Bammies Sell Bands' Bits - This year's California music awards will feature a Web site from which fans can download, vote for - and keep - songs from competing bands. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9776.html
- Battle Over a Woman's Place on the Web - The publishers of Working Woman magazine want control of a domain name they see as theirs. The female entrepreneur who has held the name for two years says the company is failing to live up to its declared principles. By Heather McCabe. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12349.html
- Be-Inners to Dance, Trance, and Extol Human Rights - The 10th annual Digital Be-In will gather digerati party people and cyber-rights advocates for an event celebrating the human side of technology. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9568.html
- Beach Boy's Song Rides the Web to Radio - Radio stations will download the new pop single from Brian Wilson's record company's Web site, then play the music over the airwaves. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11796.html
- Beck Sliced, Diced by Culture Hackers - Can the king of sampling abide being appropriated by critics of copyright restrictions? [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10436.html
- Berlin Prepares for Chaos - The annual Chaos Computer Club conference will convene under dark clouds this year. It takes place in the hometown of Tron, a famous cracker who lived and died there. David Hudson reports from Berlin. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17019.html
- Best Dressed Man on Radio - Ira Glass, host of NPR's "This American Life," is endowed with a Suck EGG for his Pynchonian peekaboo posturing. Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15709.html
- Birthplace of Multimedia Arts - Bell Labs, known for early innovations such as the laser, also married art and technology in a free-spirited collaboration. New York event hails the first interactive creators. By Jennifer Hattam. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16013.html
- Blame it on Rio - The Recording Industry Association of America files to stop Diamond Multimedia from releasing Rio, its highly anticipated portable MP3 player. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15535.html
- Blindsided by Science - Your study of insect patterns on windshields may not win you a Nobel Prize, but it could garner you a bunch of laughs and an Ig Nobel award. By Megan Watzke. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15422.html
- Blurb Hollywood Blurb - Disney's marketeers tapped Harry Knowles' Web site, the Ain't It Cool Network, for a rave review to advertise Burn Hollywood Burn - the only problem is, Knowles didn't like the film very much. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10655.html
- Body of Evidence - A multimedia artist uses the Web to stage a mock trial exploring cyberspace violations and issues of harmful Internet content. By Beverly Hanly. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14219.html
- Booting Up the Preschool Set - Little Janey may not be toilet trained, but she's already old enough for her first PC. That doesn't mean she's spoiled. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16713.html
- Boston Runs With Anti-Cheat Chips - Marathoners will hit the streets today with a ChampionChip tied to their shoelaces. The high-tech device is aimed at discouraging one of the Boston Marathon's longest traditions -- cheating. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11758.html
- Brain Music Points to Mouseless Future - A musical performance made with the help of an electrode-studded headband shows how new interfaces can free users from technological constraints. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11040.html
- Branding Bigotry - The founder of HateWatch wants netsurfers to "adopt" domains like nazi.net to keep them out of the hands of hate groups. Is this fighting racism or resorting to dirty tricks? By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13682.html
- Brill Launches Board - Media watchdog Steven Brill offers the public a chance to bite back when they feel bitten by journalists. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16054.html
- Broder Slams Salon's 'Tactics' - Jonathan Broder, the ousted Washington bureau chief of Salon, talks about the ethics of covering Representative Henry Hyde's affair, and the Net's effects on news. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15345.html
- Building Digital Pyramids - A new site sets out to provide a biographical archive of humankind, so one day your progeny can read about your life in your own words. By Joyce Slaton. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16899.html
- Bullish on Van Halen? - The Invisible Hand Electronic Market lets netsurfers trade cultural icons as though they were commodities -- but don't sell Alanis short. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12175.html
- Bushwacking for Rock 'n' Roll - This weekend a handful of South African journalism students will brave everything from faulty modem connections to drug hazes in order to bring one of the country's biggest music festivals online, in near-real time. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14264.html
- Buy 'em, Run 'em, Kill 'em - CMP is the latest technology publisher to say prune or perish, closing LAN Times, the networking publication that it bought only months ago. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15593.html
- Byte-Sized Films - Digital Film Festival sponsor D.FILM plans to launch New Venue, featuring Web-based cinematic creations. Cinephiles may scoff, but the site's creator believes the Web's challenges to filmmaking will result in creative problem solving and compelling viewing. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11632.html
- Can Miss Thang Save Earth? - The Web is a natural home for a sexy new gay comic strip called Queer Nation, its creator says. Online distribution may rescue gay comics from obscurity. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17049.html
- Canadian Director Takes Science-Fiction Flick to the Streets - Vincenzo Natali knows how to make the most of what he's got. He made the effects-laden Cube "ruthlessly beautiful" for less than the cost of many single Hollywood effects. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9792.html
- Canucks Stockpile Blank CDs - Starting New Year's Day, blank CDs and DATs sold in Canada will double in price, in an effort to protect artists' -- and the music industry's -- income. But the law is a mess. Matt Friedman reports from Montreal. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17094.html
- Cap'n Credit Crunch - If the economy is humming along so nicely, how come our pockets hurt so much? Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16444.html
- Cartier Foundation Gets Lesson in Digital Art - The French institution's first steps into online art are a productive, but harried learning experience. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11678.html
- Casting into the Stream - Traditional broadcasters are slowly beginning to offer video content on their Web sites despite nagging questions of consumer interest and revenue potential. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14101.html
- CBS.com to Launch on Sunday - Can cookie-cutter content draw enough visitors on a Web that is already overcrowded with city sites? [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9911.html
- Celebrating Ada - The "mother of all programmers," Ada Byron King, wrote what many consider to be the first computer program. The premiere today of Lynn Hershman Leeson's film about Ada is another step toward giving the digital prophet her due. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9710.html
- Chaos Club Hosts Fun and Games - The witty German hackers at the Chaos Computer Club wrap up their annual meeting with reflections on a mysterious death and brilliant Lego robots. David Hudson reports from Berlin. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17082.html
- Cinema for the Ears - Brazilian-born filmmaker Iara Lee traveled the world with a Hi-8 camera to document the history of electronic music. Now she's taking her film on the road. By Marc Savlov. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14568.html
- Civil Servant Author - Shelby Foote, author of the seemingly endless tome, The Civil War," is paid tribute for his contribution to whiteys everywhere. Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15760.html
- Close, But No Cigar - MSNBC.com decides to bleep a portion of Clinton's testimony from its webcast. Is it censorship or business as usual? By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15127.html
- CNN Journalists Speak Out - Two producers fired for their work on a story alleging that US troops used nerve gas on Vietnam defectors -- a report retracted last week by CNN and Time magazine -- have begun a campaign to exonerate themselves. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13549.html
- Composing Music's Future Form - High-tech and recording industry bigwigs wrangle over how music should be collected and distributed over the Internet. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13444.html
- Concentrating on Convergence - Milia, multimedia's yearly content extravaganza, this year focuses on how television, radio, CD-ROM, and the Net are coming together. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10143.html
- Consumer Reports for Courtesans - You can't try before you buy, but you can be an informed consumer by reading an online rough guide to hookers. By Vince Beiser. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15098.html
- Cooking mit Brian Eno - The musician-artist is in Germany this week to whip up a musical culinary performance/exhibit at the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14672.html
- Coupland Samples HAL's Legacy - Is artificial intelligence up to the promise of HAL 9000, the star of Kubrick's epic 2001? Douglas Coupland, Space Odyssey addict, takes stock of a new book that tries to find out. By Douglas Coupland. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12353.html
- Cracker Kills 'Teen Virgins' Site - An anonymous member of the Net community lashed out against the Our First Time "teen virgins" cybercast hoax by allegedly deleting the site and replacing its homepage with a harsh screed. By James Glave. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13831.html
- Crash News 'Unfiltered' - Swissair learned a valuable lesson in PR from TWA's Flight 800 disaster: Disclose early on the Net. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14848.html
- Culture and Technological Obsolescence - High-voltage thinkers gather in Los Angeles to consider how to keep our increasingly digital cultural heritage within reach as technology evolves. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10124.html
- Culture Clash - When two unlikely corporations join in a merger, comedy usually ensues. Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16694.html
- Cybercafes Flourishing in UK - Unlike the often empty American joints, plugged-in cafes in England play a vital role in unifying a growing community of Web users and workers. By Janelle Brown. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11965.html
- Cyberpundits Predict the Future - New York's Roseland Club was the backdrop for a Ziff-Davis-hosted affair starring three sets of industry eyes pointed toward the new millenium. By James Oliver Cury. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13051.html
- Cyberseder to Bring Out Musical All-Stars - Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, and John Zorn will be featured in a Passover netcast from Lincoln Center. If all goes as planned, it could give the still-embryonic business of netcasting a shot in the arm. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11605.html
- CyberTipline Takes Aim at Child Exploitation - A high-profile group including FBI Director Louis Freeh, AOL's Steve Case and two US senators announced the launch of a site to facilitate reporting the sexual exploitation of children. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10808.html
- DAM Good Music - Obscure bands have a new way to get their music heard, thanks to online technology and the efforts of a strong-willed entrepreneur. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14956.html
- Day of the Dead, Techno Style - Art meets religion in a techno-charged exhibit examining the connection between technology and a popular Mexican holiday. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14853.html
- Death by Numbers - A film on the short, cryptic life of German hacker Karl Koch opened at the BerlinBETA Festival this week. It moves on to North America next month. By David Hudson. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14693.html
- Deconstructing Public Enemy - They're watching from above, eyeing your bank account, and listening to your conversations. Here's the truth behind the paranoia in Enemy of the State. By Judy DeMocker [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16507.html
- Defending Authors' E-Rights - A gadfly literary agent in New York is standing up for writers in the age of e-books and print on demand. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15843.html
- Different Package, Same Old Tune - Will lower packaging and distribution costs in the age of digital music mean you can get the latest, greatest tunes for less in the future? Don't bet on it. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16343.html
- Digital Dream Team Calls for 'Technorealism' - Advocating a more nuanced perspective on the power of technology, a group of hotshot new-media writers and journalists will convene at Harvard Law School to press this point. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10872.html
- Digital TV Timeline - The past, present, and future of television, in one vertical line. By Karsten Lemm. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14770.html
- Digital TV: One Man's View - Gerry Kaufhold, founder and principal analyst for Cahners In-Stat Group's Multimedia Research Service, talks to Wired News about the future of digital TV. By Kristi Coale. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14769.html
- Dilbert-Critical Launch - A hot Silicon Alley design firm gives comics fans new reasons to laugh. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15703.html
- Distributed Journalism Hits Iraq - As bombs fall, a Web-based news service reports the event using satellite phones, chat networks, and the Web with an immediate, first-hand account. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16933.html
- Do Girls Truly Hate Computers? - Women are scarce in the high-tech industry, so a new commission has been formed to investigate the old question of why girls don't excel in science and math. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13371.html
- Doctor Who? - America's uniformed doctors-in-chief, the surgeons general, are more than just figureheads -- they're exceedingly well-dressed figureheads. Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15983.html
- Dolphin-Safe Entertainment - Virtual-reality technology opens the underwater world in the form of Cyberfin, a virtual dolphin encounter that recently debuted in New Jersey. By Judy Bryan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12824.html
- Don't Know Much About History - Net years are flying by, and we still know little about the history of computers. A new tome helps fill in the knowledge gaps. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16329.html
- Don't Spank the Monkey - The maker of those annoyingly named "Things" has found a use for them beyond branding offline objects: protecting online copyrights. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14508.html
- DreamWorks and the Burning Bush - Jeffrey Katzenberg and crew employ new animation to tell an old story. By Marc Savlov. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16330.html
- Driving on the Freeway of Love - Traffic Gems thinks it has the recipe for romance in the connected world: Choose screen name. Affix to car bumper. Wait for email from Mr. Right. By Joyce Slayton. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16956.html
- DTV: Not Ready for Prime Time - Before you go digital, consider the cost: several thousand bucks for a box with an undetermined shelf life, for which there isn't any programming to speak of. Yet. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14780.html
- DVD Does Europe - A Berlin-based production team unveils the first full-length art film to exploit the playback technology of DVD. By Marc Savlov. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13860.html
- DVD Resurrects Lost Ending to Little Shop of Horrors - The new release of this 1986 film includes the US$5 million effects-laden finale test-viewers deemed too bleak. The ability to insert such material may be what convinces fans to adapt to the new DVD format. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9908.html
- E-books' Bash in Big Apple - The New York publishing industry turned out in force to get a first look at the shape of books to come. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15808.html
- Earnest Goes to Camp - The first in a five-part series examines the generations-old scourge still gripping American society: teenagers. Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15844.html
- Edsel or Etch-a-Sketch? - The wired world and the art world have designs on the iMac, arriving in 150,000 pairs of hot little hands on Saturday. It looks like a design industry favorite. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14406.html
- Embracing Y2K - Just because the power grid might fail is no reason to freak out. The Utne Reader executives offer a kinder, gentler reaction to the computer crisis. By Theta Pavis. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16998.html
- ER: The Live Internet Episode - The folks who brought us the first live Net birth are at their cameras again. This time, they webcast from one of the busiest trauma centers in the United States. By Ronald Warren Deutsch. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16318.html
- Exhibitionist Rebuffs Microsoft - A sassy Aussie and a Sun systems engineer are using their free XXX site to make a point about open-source software. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12861.html
- Fan Site Sparks Biopic - Louise Brooks, liberated silent-screen siren, inspired latter-day fans to build a memorable Web site. Turner Classic Movies was so impressed by the site that it commissioned a biography. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11621.html
- Favorite Poem Archive Seeks Net Home - An effort led by Robert Pinsky to record ordinary Americans reading their favorite poems will begin in April for National Poetry Month. A Web presence is planned, but the project is looking for a sponsor and designers to do the work. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10991.html
- FEED Reinvents Itself - One of the pioneer outposts of cultural criticism on the Web revamps. Founders Johnson and Syman talk about the Web's coming "fragmentation" and the new-media generation. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14920.html
- Fetish: Objects of Our Technolust - A closer shave razor, a chirpy desktop computer, phallic mice, and other geek gadgets. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10013.html
- Fireteams Get Fired Up - A new computer game promotes community spirit by rallying players in teams. Real-time voice communication adds to the excitement. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16905.html
- Fong Wins Gaming League Championship - Computer gaming's posterboy takes home the championship, but not without some tense moments and an enounter with hot lava. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10001.html
- Font Decision Hailed by Designers - A US District Court judge ruled that Adobe's fonts are subject to copyright protection, and while type designers are happy about it, one font vendor vowed to fight. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10139.html
- French Fete the Internet - The F te de l'Internet will feature corporate sponsored hype, electronic government flag-waving, and individual merrymaking in the country's first national tribute to the Net. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11056.html
- From Earth to Avatars - Avatars converged on cyberspace over the weekend at what may have been the world's first 3-D online convention. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16439.html
- From Prog Rock to PlayStation - Rodney Matthews' artistic netherworld graced many 1970s rock albums and science fiction books. With a videogame soon to be released, his fantastic creations are returning to the (adolescent) public eye. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9949.html
- From Siberia to Cyberia - A curator from New York's Museum of Modern Art is hitting the road from St. Petersburg to Tomsk, digital cameras in hand, to discover new Russian artists. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13443.html
- From Three Rs to Three Xs - Educators and software developers convene in Camden, Maine, to discuss a game plan for merging education and infotech. By Scott Kirsner. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15840.html
- Game Makers Say Net Is All Wet - Some developers of interactive games entertain a heresy: For multiplayer gaming, the Internet's a dud and always will be. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10181.html
- Gates, Godzilla ... Godzilla, Gates - Oracle chief Larry Ellison has a sense of fun to go along with his anti-Microsoft vitriol. To celebrate this week's antitrust lawsuits, he's treating his whole workforce to a screening of Godzilla on Thursday. By Dan Brekke. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12420.html
- Gay Dough - An entrepreneur is banking that gays and lesbians want a financial institution of their own. And that they'll go online to get it. By Ronald Warren Deutsch. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16991.html
- Geeks with Guns - Windows NT workstation disks can't stop speeding bullets, but that's no reason not to shoot them full of holes -- literally. Declan McCullagh reports from Arnold, Maryland. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16433.html
- Get Your Kicks on the Net - Maybe you can't get to France this year and, hey, those soccer fans can be kinda scary at World Cup time. No worries, though. It's all online. By Charlotte Harper. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12881.html
- Getting the News to the World's Dilberts - Intellisearch aims to corner the middle-echelon market for business news retrieval. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10055.html
- Girl Jocks Take On Digital Hoops - Electronic Arts ships "NCAA March Madness '98," the first interactive game featuring women's teams. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10357.html
- Glaser and Microsoft - The RealNetworks founder speaks frankly about how a cold shoulder from Microsoft led him to testify in the Senate. Second of two parts. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15142.html
- Glaser Gets Real - The RealNetworks CEO dishes on his early days at Microsoft and talks of the years that shaped his vision of the Net. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15122.html
- Go Ask Evel - Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel sets his thrill-seeking sights on the relative safety of the Net, where he'll go out on a limb offering advice and, undoubtedly, his volatile opinions. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12436.html
- Going for the Gold (Stream) - A University of Washington professor uses the Web and Olympic urine to turn ice crystals into art. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10326.html
- Going for the Gramophone - Musicians who compose scores for video games think their work ought to compete at the Grammies. If only they were eligible for the prize. By Ronald Warren Deutsch. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17025.html
- Golden Age of Porn Online - Two sites mine the history of erotic imagery to attract members -- and uncover the evolution of what we consider sexy. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16175.html
- Guerrilla Techno Tackles the Net - Techno is hot in clubs, but cool in the stores. So the genre's boosters are reinventing music distribution for a new era. By Niall McKay and Christopher Jones. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16764.html
- Guggenheim Goes Digital - By commissioning a Web-native art project based on the life of a gender-switcher who was killed in 1993, the Guggenheim Museum faces tough questions about art in the digital age. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13648.html
- Hackers to Shake Down Takedown - A Miramax film that purports to tell Kevin Mitnick's story is the scourge of the incarcerated hacker's ever-loyal band of supporters. By Wendy Grossman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13712.html
- Hacks By Fans Improve Vintage Techno Toys - The second edition of drum machine software ReBirth features sound and visual modifications by enthusiastic users. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11567.html
- Hands-Free Sculpting - An artist uses engineering techniques to create sculptures without getting his hands dirty. David Kushner reports from New York. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16244.html
- Harvard's Internet Brain Trust - With Berkman Center, Harvard University has opened its first academic think tank devoted to the Net. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12376.html
- Harvard, FEED to Co-Create Conference Site - The university's Berkman Center for Internet and Society has tapped the webzine's "stable" of best minds to develop a site that will outlast the event. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12033.html
- Hasta Luego, Mama - Videoconferencing is going global, one border at a time, and affording far-flung families some invaluable face time. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15027.html
- Have Your People Email Mine - No more slush pile: Film director Francis Ford Coppola offers aspiring screenwriters a link to the Hollywood machine. By Ronald Warren Deutsch. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16202.html
- Have Your People Email My People - You think you've got a great idea for a movie? An independent film producer wants to hear from you -- and he's set up a Web site to make it easier. By Jason Silverman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15293.html
- Head Full of Rocks - Technology plays a supporting role to machismo, the (surprise) real star in Armageddon, Michael Bay's latest big blow-em-up. By Dave McCoy. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13476.html
- Heads May Yet Roll - It looked like Robotica, the second runner-up to the cancelled Robot Wars was sunk. But robot warriors are a tough lot and may stir some dust this weekend after all. By Lauren Fielder. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14335.html
- Heat Turned Up on Digital Music Pirates - In its biggest antipiracy action, Geffen Records shuts down more than 100 sites that carried illegal copies of its music. The pirates say they're just promoting the music - and that they're fighting high prices. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10234.html
- Heavy Medal - Smoking the Gold in Nagano. [Wired News]
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- Help Them Build It, and They Will Come - Tripod, GeoCities, and other Web communities are offering a wide array of tools to help attract members and to foster creation of cooler, and more lucrative, sites. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10056.html
- High Anxiety - First floor -- lingerie, second floor -- leftovers. Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16980.html
- High Aspirations: High-Tech Art - San Francisco's creative community lures Silicon Valley's deep pockets to a new-media art show in the hopes of prying loose a little money. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16100.html
- High Tech Hopes - SporTVision's high tech broadcast system brings a new concept to sports television -- supercharged slow-mo replay with real-time digital effects and computer-aided analysis. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12622.html
- Hollywood at Hyperspeed - Turning their noses up at Hollywood, the desktop filmmakers behind Troops created an f/x-laden 10-minute short and a new distribution paradigm for less than the price of an average desktop PC. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12782.html
- Hollywood Big Guns Risk Overwhelming Sundance - While the debate about the festival's growing commercialism continues to rage, smart directors are adapting high-tech solutions and routing around some money problems. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9671.html
- Hollywood Stomachs the Net - Entertainment industry bigwigs meet to discuss the ramifications of new media on their business, especially that revenue-stealing Internet. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14022.html
- Homework Heaven - or Hype Hell? - While offering a host of services for students and free Web hosting for schools, Jumbo's new scholastic resource serves up information with a heavy load of commercial distractions. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9650.html
- Hope's Still Alive - A prepared obituary mistakenly appeared on the Associated Press' Web site, prompting two congressmen to tell the House that the respected entertainer had cracked his last joke. Unfortunately for Representatives Armey and Stump, Bob Hope still gets the last laugh. By Ed Murrieta. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12789.html
- House Rules - The Internet phenomenon and the stock market converge and - what do we have? A simpler new economy. By Dr. McLoo. [Wired News]
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- How the West Won Another Computer Bowl - Dressing like extras from a cowboy film, and driven by Marc Andreessen's lightning response time, the West dominated its Eastern opponent for a third consecutive year. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11921.html
- Humane Designs for Cube Farms - A leading designer believes we can humanize the workplace. And we don't have to tear down all those cubicles. By Frank Jossi. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16844.html
- Hype List - Deflating this month's overblown memes. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10994.html
- Hype List - Deflating this month's overblown memes. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11430.html
- Hype List - Deflating this month's overblown memes. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12123.html
- Hype List - Deflating this month's overblown memes. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10108.html
- I Remember IANA - A colleague honors Postel as a friend, engineer, confidant, leader, and icon. By Vint Cerf. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15681.html
- I Want My AOL! - The family-friendly online service humbly confirms a report that says more people logged on to AOL on February evenings than tuned in to MTV. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12435.html
- I-Tech, Therefore I Think - Is information technology pushing society forward? A new book examines how technology answers existential questions -- or doesn't. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16012.html
- Idées Fortes - Wired defines the terms you need to know to stay culturally literate. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10354.html
- Idées Fortes - Wired defines the terms you need to know to stay culturally literate. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11341.html
- If You Want It Done Right - A conservative newshound who thinks the media are hacking and slacking tries his hand at delivering comprehensive -- and evenhanded -- news coverage. By Ed Murrieta. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13028.html
- Image Is Everything - And it could be worth plenty as intellectual property rights expand to include virtual people. By Susan Kuchinskas. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13075.html
- Imagine Usenet, Purged of Porn - The time has come to delete kiddie porn and pirated software from Usenet, a former Chicago ISP owner says. His plan to offer a "clean" news stream has critics seeing red. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16276.html
- Importing a Virtual Star - Kyoko Date has made some inroads with her CD, but Japan's virtual pop icon has failed to achieve the mega-stardom of Tomb Raider's Lara Croft. A new deal with Oz Interactive could bring on a tide change. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11701.html
- In SF, Image IS Everything - Esther Hwang, appointment secretary to San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, wants the world to know about her other talents. What better place to do that than the Internet? By Tony Long. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12955.html
- In-Santa-ty in San Jose - They're rowdy, they're rebellious, and they're wearing -- Santa suits? Naughty beats out nice when scores of feisty old St. Nicks converge on Silicon Valley. By Joyce Slaton. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16650.html
- Indie Films from the Lone Star - While most multimedia artists just complain about Hollywood's creative deficit and its lack of techno-savvy, filmmakers in Austin are doing something about it: They're creating a scene. By Marc Savlov. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12920.html
- Is Content Dead on the Web? - Most of the first generation of Webzines seems to be dying off. Is there light at the end of the tunnel? [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10901.html
- Is One Bug as Good as Another? - In the battle of the insect movies, A Bug's Life may edge out Antz on computer animation, but DreamWorks has a US$68 million head start. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16038.html
- Is Web-Based Mail Bad for Your Anonymity? - An unnamed cypherpunk learns a lesson about HTML-enabled mail readers ... and about employee privacy. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10555.html
- ISP: Virgin Teens a Scam - A provider of a Web hosting service to adult sites has posted documents online suggesting the Our First Time Web site is a scam. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13816.html
- It's a Drudge World, After All - Matt Drudge was the first to make public the Monica Lewinsky case. So what? It turns out he is the embodiment of a frantic, redundantly networked world in which everyone knows everything at once - even things that aren't true. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9829.html
- It's Digital, but Is It Art? - It may not rival Rembrandt, but digital art is gaining momentum as a medium. And the artists themselves are leading the way. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14877.html
- J-Schools Create RoboReporters - Journalism students are teaming up with their engineering and computer sciences peers to give reporters superhuman information-gathering capabilities. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10003.html
- Jail-Order Brides - An enterprising retiree uses the Web to hook up bad girls with the men who love them. By Mark Cromer. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14199.html
- Jim Nitchals, Net Crusader, Dies - The hero of the anti-spam movement touched many, including those from the opposite camp. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12832.html
- Judging the Many Threads - Though no one's beating down the door to get in, a hypertext fiction contest sponsored by New York University Press hopes to raise awareness of the medium's unique qualities. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12007.html
- Just Don't Call It Siliwood - Los Angeles, in its quest for high-tech credibility, has given itself a new nickname. Add "Digital Coast" to the growing list of regional monikers. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10389.html
- Just Outta Beta - Coming next down the pipeline: a '90s rendering of Battlezone, DreamWorks' artificially intelligent dinosaurs, and a dead-tree bio of Peter Drucker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10343.html
- Kathy Acker's 'Complexity' Honored by Memorial Event - A diverse group of writers, artists, and musicians will gather today in tribute to the deceased writer and theorist, whose work was widely published on the Web and in print. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9801.html
- Kenneth Starr as Mr. Weatherbee... - Jon Katz knows Kenneth Starr's hidden task: Reminding us how abusive government can be. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11590.html
- Killing Mobilizes Netizens - The Net provided the informational backbone of the nation's emotional response to the killing of a gay Wyoming student. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15570.html
- Ladies' Home Internet - Oxygen Media aims to breathe new life into AOL's women's channel and deliver advertisers a burgeoning consumer base. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15090.html
- Late Night Mines the Net - Are CBS writers spending too much time online? If you watched Thursday night's talk shows, you might get that impression. By Chris Jones. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16106.html
- Laying out a Content Smorgasbord - The multimedia mavens at Milia '98 listened to and offered plenty of safe advice about the future. It's apparent, though, that even in the absence of big visions, lots of creative ground is being turned in the industry. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10146.html
- Learning from the Computer Past - Nostalgia buffs will gather in Silicon Valley this weekend to talk cassette data storage, 32K RAM, and other wonders of decades-old home computers. By Moira Muldoon. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15244.html
- Leave My Files Alone - Horse thieves may get shot, but art snatchers generally go free. That forces artists to learn how to protect their creative work online. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13605.html
- Leave Your Laptop at Home - Old meets new in Southeast Asia, where high-tech enterprise meets adventure travel and backpackers find more than coffee in the caf s. By Nora Isaacs. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16721.html
- Lego, My Ego - Lego's new robotics set snaps in a computer brain to carry out programmed actions. It's shaping up to be a holiday hit, and not just with kids. Hackers are eager to see what this baby can do. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15171.html
- Lesh Kept Secret Online - The Grateful Dead's former bassist recently dodged media attention as he prepared to have a liver transplant, but kept in touch with supporters online. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16927.html
- Let Your Fingers Do the Walking - An ambitious new Web site from France Telecom, Pages Zoom, brings the streets of Paris to your desktop. By Heather McCabe. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15958.html
- Leveraging Your Kids - The honchos behind entertainment Web sites are working harder than the McDonald's promotional tie-in team to get children onto their sites and keep them there. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14067.html
- Levi.com Thinking Different - How do you get the kids of today to be loyal to their parents' brand of jeans? The launch of the new company Web site will try to recraft the company image, with modern attitude and streaming documentary videos. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11645.html
- Like a Hole in the Head - Couch potatoes beware: That new HDTV set may cost you considerably more than the number on the price tag. And your cabinetmaker doesn't mind a bit. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15219.html
- Like A Streaming Stone - RealNetworks and Rolling Stone team up to launch their own Web radio station. It's cool, it's e-commercial, it's a music marketer's dream. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15921.html
- Little Green Burning Men - The Burning Man Festival, which this year celebrates "The Great Above, Aliens, and the Space Age," is fast becoming the largest alternative arts festival in the world. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14747.html
- Little People, Big Ideas - Young people from a global online conference tackle the world's technology, cultural, and education problems at an MIT-sponsored event. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16224.html
- LiveJam Picks Up the World Beat - Musicians around the world looking to jam need not venture out of their studios, as long as they speak MIDI and have a modem. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14943.html
- Lone Star Filmmaker's Digital Liberation - Once convinced of the inherent superiority of film, Randy Cole had to reconsider other possibilities during the making of his nightmarish feature-length movie Flush. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12032.html
- Looking South to the Future - A group of San Francisco artists uses psychoanalytic technique, satire, and anonymity to spark thought -- if not discussion -- about interpersonal and personal-techno relationships. By Jennifer Hattam. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14274.html
- Love: Japanese Style - The Tamagotchi people are back with a toy that has Tokyo teens beeping and flashing one another: Lovegety, the high-poptech date finder. By Yukari Iwatani. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12899.html
- Low-Tech Performers Ask High-Tech Questions - In Berlin, a group of artists gathered for a festival intended to raise questions about their place in a world dominated by computers. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10811.html
- Lycos to Planet: Save Yourself - Content-hungry Lycos bailed on an agreement with eco-aware EnviroLink, citing flaccid hit counts, but a webzine for motor-sports fans is claiming credit for the disconnect. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14444.html
- Macromedia Debuts Showcase Entertainment Site - To promote its animation plug-ins, Macromedia launched the showcase site ShockRave, entering the online entertainment fray. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10430.html
- Making Antz No Picnic - The latest Dreamworks release comes in ahead of schedule, under budget, and with new tech behind it to boot. But it wasn't easy. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
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- Mannerist American Auteurs - The art houses can have Hal Hartley and Whit Stillman. Their collective canon of films have a irritating quality that borders on cinematic terrorism. Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15782.html
- Mapping Anarchy on Usenet - A UCLA grad student has created an innovative program to bring the chaos of the newsgroups into focus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10724.html
- Mark Willes: Cereal Killer - Suck sardonically salutes the Los Angeles Times' publisher and his role in sinking Times/Mirror's flagship publication. Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15649.html
- Marketing Fiesta in Czech Republic - The former Soviet bloc nation's domestic car company, Skoda, is steamed by a Ford plan to market a popular model by leveraging a bit of Cold War idiom. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12467.html
- Marketing Intelligent Life - The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence will live long and prosper, thanks to support from the latest Star Trek flick. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15708.html
- Mattel Turns Barbie Into PC-Enhanced Geek - The toy-maker has decided that girls want to have fun with more than just dolls, and are creating Barbie software, Barbie digital cameras and, yes, programmable Barbies. It's signed a deal with Intel, too, to make more of its toys interactive. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10213.html
- MechCommander on the Move - FASA releases the long-awaited BattleTech game, but you may be seeing it on more than the computer screen. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13861.html
- Members Only - Suck.com celebrates a decade of the organ of generation. Courtesy of Mr. Mxyzptlk. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15601.html
- Microsoft Gets In on the Games - Software giant unveils new products and strategies at Gamestock 98. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10484.html
- Microsoft Goes After the Press - Microsoft subpoenas a CNET journalist's notes, an increasingly popular legal tactic. Under the media microscope for months, the company's legal team gets aggressive. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15517.html
- Microsoft's Necktie Party - The software superpower, in a Father's Day come-on for Slate and in a series of Bill Gates golf-club commercials, is showcasing a kinder, gentler side to its normally combative image. By Dan Brekke. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12818.html
- Mining Co. Celebrates 1st Year - The number of hosts has more than tripled, and the company hopes a relaunch will deal with the navigational burden created by so much content. Meanwhile, deals with other services spread that content further. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11968.html
- Mondo Porno - A picture or two would have been worth all the racy words of the Starr report -- to television, anyway. From Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15155.html
- Monsters, Spies, and Implants - When artists get their hands on technology, things can get a little crazy, and the lines between virtual space and physical reality can be obscured, even obliterated. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13208.html
- More Headroom: MTV Debuts a Digital Bill - When Clinton gives his State of the Union Address on the 27th, MTV will feature a talking 3-D-rendered Bill cartoon, delivering its sassy prescripted reply. Protozoa, the company that created Virtual Bill, says there are more where that head came from. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9803.html
- More Money for Aussie Techies - Australia's government is pumping money into the high-tech infrastructure to make the country a major multimedia player. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13511.html
- Mouses to the Grindstone - A recent study suggests that most online on-the-clock hours are spent in work-related activities. By Regina Lynn Preciado. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14371.html
- Movies Online? Not Yet - Large entertainment studios are more interested in protecting intellectual property than making a killing in ecommerce. But tech companies that develop protective software may change that. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14063.html
- Mr. Toad's Last Ride - Enthusiastic online protesters fail to keep Disney from replacing the old favorite with a newer, fluffier attraction. By Rob Waller. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14750.html
- MS Trumpets Books 2.0 - Microsoft tech VP Dick Brass announces an initiative to create a standard format for the publication and distribution of electronic books. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15490.html
- MSN Moves From Content to Access - Having figured out that it is better at technology than content, Microsoft discontinued the remainder of its unique MSN shows today. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10584.html
- MTV Cries 'Hacked!' - But it was a fake. MTV staged a phony hack to promote a new personality, and the real hackers are not amused. By Arik Hesseldahl. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14914.html
- Museum Faces Challenge of Creating New-Media Tools - The newly created National Center for Science Literacy, Education, and Technology ponders the best methods of using technology to facilitate education. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9704.html
- Museum Web Site Kicks Off New California ID - Hoping to raise awareness of the Golden State's "culture capital," the California Culture Net project will attempt to create "brand" recognition. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11460.html
- Music to Their Ears - They've listened to the promise of a new standard for digital music downloads. Still, proponents of MP3 and other music compression technologies aren't singing the blues. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16947.html
- Naked Angels Don't Fly With Retailers - Interplay's latest game features a naked angel on the cover. The company calls it "fine art," but retailers apparently don't agree. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10527.html
- Name of the Game - Sports stadiums and nature trails are on the auction block, and Suck wonders how much the our collective soul costs. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16324.html
- Net Mourns Passing of Giant - The Internet community shares its shock and sorrow over the untimely death of Jon Postel, former IANA director and the "father of the Internet." By James Glave. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15682.html
- Net Radio: Waiting for Dream to Come True - Imagine Media launches its new Internet radio service today, as other companies, bulging with channels, wait patiently for the audiences they're sure will arrive. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9722.html
- Net Reaches the Big Time - Tell the networks the news: The Internet is now a primary place Americans go to get their information. By Steve Silberman and Arik Hesseldahl. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14988.html
- Networking and the Arts - Delegates from business, government, media, and the arts gather to discuss the cultural implications of a networked society. By Chris Bray. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15778.html
- Networking Off The Network - On the second day of Plug.In '98, a conference devoted to the fledgling online music business, the loudest sound was the shuffling of business cards. By James Oliver Cury. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13778.html
- New Economy: Cold War Heaven - In the market for a fallout shelter? A Texas realtor is offering a US$650,000 erstwhile underground missile silo, with all the doomsday accouterments. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10445.html
- New Gaming Hub - Bignetwork offers something for the gamer in everyone, from puzzles and trivia to shoot 'em ups. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13355.html
- New Look for New-Media Art - It's not just on monitors anymore. New York's School of Visual Arts opens its sixth annual Digital Salon, a showcase of digital art fit for a museum. By Reena Jana. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16060.html
- New Media Center Pushes Electronic Filmmaking - The three-year-old adjunct to the Sundance Film Festival gives filmmakers a hands-on experience with digital tools. Things have changed since the days when "video" was a bad word among celluloid fans. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9841.html
- New Media: Invasion of the Digital Body Snatchers - Hollywood is buzzing about a new breed of actors: synthespians. And stars are flocking to a company in Monterey, where their likenesses can be digitized and translated into plug-and-play 3-D digital doppelg ngers. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10645.html
- New Media: London Calling - Sohonet, a high-bandwidth digital network, links Hollywood filmmakers with effects houses and creative types in London, halfway across the globe. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11163.html
- New Search Tool Speaks Your Language - The builders of the Electric Monk want to take the Web beyond keywords, so they wrote a program that understands how people naturally frame questions. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11683.html
- New Writers' Site Strikes a Nerve - Contentious, a new webzine and mailing list for online writers and editors, challenges accepted wisdom about the Web, reading, and writing. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11888.html
- New York Stories, With Lasers - A Manhattan artist will paint the inner life of an in-your-face neighborhood on the sides of brownstones, bodegas, and a modest synagogue. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15753.html
- News Site Watches the Watchdogs - The new Online Journalism Review will track the ways the Net is changing the ethics, markets, and speed of news. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10591.html
- Newsweek.com -- Finally - Four years after Time ventured onto the Web, the other newsweekly is following suit. With breaking news and deep background, will it be engaging enough? By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15195.html
- Newton Developers Gather to Mourn - Apple provided the space and the refreshments for an assembly that one attendee described as "more of a wake than a protest." [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10774.html
- Next Stop for 'Next 20' - The Next 20 Years mini-conferences are sweeping the nation. Next stop: Seattle. By Theta Pavis. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14655.html
- No End in Sight for San Francisco Web Developer Group - At its second anniversary the NoEnd mailing list faces the difficulties of navigating between exclusivity and overpopulation. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9749.html
- No More Goodies Until You Pay - At a Los Angeles meeting of the minds, the music industry tried to determine how to get the evil Internet to stop encroaching on its turf. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13979.html
- No Room at the Bar - A London-based legal education company has made an online law degree possible, but it won't make practicing in America any easier anytime soon. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13985.html
- No Way to Run a Culture - This week's Getty Center conference on finding ways to preserve our burgeoning electronic culture concluded that the world does, indeed, face a problem of unprecedented scope. A bright spot: Solutions are out there. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10301.html
- Northern Light in Hot Water with Freelancers - The innovative search engine has upset the National Writers Union, among others, for selling stories for which, the union says, it does not own rights. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9861.html
- NYSE Gets 'Ramped' Up - The New York Stock Exchange has asked hot Silicon Alley architectural firm Asymptote to build a data center for the 21st century. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15051.html
- Oedipus Wrecks - If all the teenagers on TV are so admirable, why are the all the adolescents in real life so scary? Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15868.html
- Of All the Nerve! - Next month, the online home of "literate smut" will serve up an annotated guide to thousands of sex sites. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10408.html
- On the Edge and Under the Wing - Zapata, the oil-turned-media company continues to bring webzines into its fold with Word and Charged. Is this the end of the little guys? By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14682.html
- Online Ed 101 - Putting a class online -- let alone an entire curriculum -- requires more than a professor who can write HTML code. Second in a series. By Beverly Hanly. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15061.html
- Online Spy Kit Hits Home - A new product called Prudence will allow parents to snoop on their kids' browsing habits. Is covert surveillance better than censorship? By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12440.html
- Orwell Checks In on the Valley - A discussion of fictional futures spawns conspiracy worries and convenience scenarios at the Conference on Technology and Society. Ayla Jean Yackley reports from San Jose. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16411.html
- Out of Chaos Comes Order - The mysterious death of a celebrated German hacker provides the foundation for a lively, and occasionally acrimonious, opening session of the Chaos Communications Conference. David Hudson reports from Berlin. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17050.html
- Out of the Office - Reports of the death of the office are greatly exaggerated, but alternatives abound. They're the focus of the alt.office conference in San Jose, California. By Susan Kuchinskas. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14400.html
- Outward Bound for Geeks - A pack of nerds will toss maps, boots, and laptops into their packs and head to southern Germany to talk Linux and watch the solar eclipse. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16624.html
- Paris, All the Rave - Parisians thronged over the weekend to a melange of music and movement, a rave la fran aise. By Heather McCabe. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15123.html
- Partying on The Frontier - Venture capitalists danced alongside cyber-hippies at a San Francisco bash celebrating the Electronic Frontier Foundation. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13326.html
- PBS Does DTV - Boot up your DTV-enabled PC: Public television plans to air the first nationally broadcast digital TV program in November. By Kendra Mayfield. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15841.html
- PBS Snowboards into Online Ed - The Public Broadcasting System's first Web-specific educational project will be based on the coming Winter Olympics. Forty US teachers have combined efforts to make learning as painless, and as interesting as possible. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9986.html
- Persian Kitty Going into Print - One of the Web's most-recognized adult brands has announced a deal with the publisher of Oui and Blue Boy to create Web sites for the publisher in exchange for a magazine of its own. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9936.html
- Pest Control - The vermin of Antz and A Bug's Life don't hold a candle to their 1950s, B-movie, Communist predecessors. Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16139.html
- Pile Driver - The Mouth of the South ends his bid for the presidency before it even begins. Thank God. Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16475.html
- Pixeling Dixie - Edward Ayers isn't just bringing the Civil War to the Web, his online archive is changing history. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12354.html
- Playing a High-Stakes Game - As the gaming industry holds its annual powwow in Atlanta, the real name of the game is attracting eyeballs, by any means necessary. By James Glave. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12580.html
- Playing Virtual House - Kids in San Diego and Mexico City are knocking down cultural barriers using oversized toy hammers, black lights, and virtual reality. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14490.html
- Pocket Monsters Invade Atlanta - Nintendo's newest creation, Pokemon, is already a major phenomenon in Japan, where 8 million of the stuffed creatures have found their way into pocket-sized homes. In the US, the marketing blitz began today at the E3 show. By James Glave. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12612.html
- Poles Tune In to Digital TV - In Poland, a market is waiting to be exploited, and two companies are jumping in. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15895.html
- Pomo Homers Hope to Link Students with World - A two-year ground voyage by 10 high-tech trekkers will let disadvantaged students travel virtually and interact with activists worldwide. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9511.html
- Porn Patrons Billed, Unfulfilled - XPics' ad banners have changed the face of adult advertising on the Web, but the "100 percent free" trial periods on its sites can escalate into big credit card headaches. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12412.html
- Porn Patrons Billed, Unfulfilled - XPics' ad banners have changed the face of adult advertising on the Web, but the "100 percent free" trial periods on its sites can escalate into big credit card headaches. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12320.html
- Portal of the Rich and Famous - It's so very hard to find the finer things online, dahling. So, a magazine for the moneyed plans a gilded portal. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16906.html
- Positive Chain Reaction - A New York executive launches an ad campaign far from Madison Avenue: an email thread aimed to help survivors of Hurricane Mitch. By Ronald Warren Deutsch. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16231.html
- Premium Content Providers to Charge - Slate, Conde Nast, and Salon each announced moves towards charging for their Net content. Is the Web world - used to free information and liberal linking - ready to pay for its leisure time reads? [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9673.html
- Pretty as a ... Portal? - The stripped-down, Yahoo-ian directory design formula is spreading, but some designers are balking. They say the practical look doesn't equal faster download time. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13679.html
- Print Media in Glass Houses - The New Republic clearly needs to learn a little bit about journalistic rigor. Here's a suggestion on where they might go for the lesson: online publications. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12279.html
- Public Enemy's Chuck D on MP3 - Members of the controversial rap group known for songs like "Fuck the Police" say they were forced to remove MP3 songs from their Web site. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16597.html
- Public Viewing of a Private Life - A Dutch man's home is wired to quantify the details of his daily life. People tune in every day to see how many times he's flushed his toilet. By Jeroen van Bergeijk. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16280.html
- Punditry's Dark Side - The talking heads on ABC News' This Week have egg in their faces, and Suck tells us why. Courtesy of the Sucksters. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15600.html
- Purple Moon Seeks Sponsors for 'Communityware' - One of the most popular sites for young girls is boosting traffic by offering virtual "treasures." Now they're trying to capitalize on them. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11596.html
- Putting a Price on Webcasts - Artists, producers, and webcasters all stand to make money by flogging their music online, but no one has figured out how to distribute the wealth. By James Oliver Cury. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13810.html
- Putting History Online - Info titan UMI is launching its Digital Vault Initiative, which will give libraries and schools (that are willing to pay) access to early editions of Chaucer, Shakespeare -- and your doctoral thesis. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13298.html
- Quincy Jones' New African Music Site - The composer and continually active music industry titan is seeking to introduce audiences to the seldom-heard treasures of South African music. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9991.html
- Radio 'Pirates' Show the Flag - A conference of micro-broadcasters in San Francisco focuses on the issue of who owns the airwaves. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12991.html
- Radio Independents' Day - Net radio enthusiasts and free radicals converged online over the weekend to discuss the future of independent radio online. By Kathy Kennedy. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13484.html
- Reading Between the Lights - A Seattle artist manipulates scant quantities of light and sound in a large space and explores the meaning of consciousness. By Beverly Hanly. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13433.html
- Reading the Future of the Palm - As the Palm Computing Worldwide Developer Conference winds up, Wired News speaks to Donna Dubinsky, the woman who helped start it all. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16646.html
- Ready for My Suckup, Dr. DeMille - Make a good case for yourself and you, too, can have your thighs liposuctioned for free. But the whole World Wide Web will be watching. By Ronald Warren Deutsch. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16457.html
- Real Democracy Payoff - Ready ... set ... stream that video and show how the Net promotes democracy. Freespeech Online is offering a prize to the candidate who makes the most convincing case. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12794.html
- Real Fruit on the Virtual Vine - It's not just for elitists any more. The Net brings wine knowledge and affordable products to anyone with a modem. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15366.html
- Real Life Trumans - The votes are in, and three people are set to let you spend a day in their lives. You'll need some Real plug-ins. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16887.html
- Recasting Yesterday as Tomorrowland - Disneyland looks to past visions of the future for its multimillion-dollar renovation, reopening this month. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12302.html
- Recycling Bits - A new site called The Digital Landfill wants to make collaborative treasure out of digital trash. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12825.html
- Reports of Netly's Death Exaggerated - The Netly News will be reborn after the departure of founding editor Noah Robischon, into something leaner and more focused on the bottom line. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10622.html
- Requiem for Jon Postel - Jon Postel put so much of himself into the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority that many people saw no distinction between IANA (the man) and IANA (the office). By Paul Vixie. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15679.html
- ResFest Hits New York - ResFest, the digital film festival that continues to gain popularity and respect, wraps up this year's tour in New York. By Erika Milvy. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15529.html
- Retrofitted Pundits - Michael Lind and David Horowitz find salvation in political conversion. Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15670.html
- Return of the Killer Zines - Webzine '98 draws independent content site producers to San Francisco this weekend to plan the comeback of the killer Internet app. By R.U. Sirius. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16148.html
- RIAA Unveils Anti-MP3 Plan - The recording-industry group says big high-tech companies support its call to develop a new specification for selling tunes online. MP3 advocates say it's vaporware. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16853.html
- Rigging Software to Swear - A computer programmer says he sabotaged an educational computer game to produce words that parents might not want their kids to know. The manufacturer says this isn't the case. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15533.html
- Rio Debut Back on Track - A Southern California judge ruled that Diamond Media can release its much anticipated MP3 player, despite attempts by the recording industry to block it. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15847.html
- Rio Release Delayed - The RIAA wins a temporary restraining order against Diamond Multimedia, quashing hopes to release the Rio PMP300 portable MP3 player this month. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15675.html
- Rising Tide Swamps NYC - Cards were flying Monday at The Rising Tide Summit, billed as Silicon Alley's answer to West Coast brain-bath conferences such as TED. By David Kushner. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14026.html
- Robots Battle for Students' Future - The First Competition National Championship at the Epcot Center in Florida will feature student teams and their robots in battle. The goal is student excitement about science. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11463.html
- Robots Take to the Stage - It may be some time until a robotic thespian develops the sort of charisma that will draw paparazzi, but the mechanical actors are definitely scooting into the spotlight. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9524.html
- Roll Your Own Radio - Listen up, music lovers, talk show fans, and radio news junkies. Imagine Radio now allows listeners to program their own Web-based broadcasts. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14706.html
- Samples Silence Negativland - The band says its CD manufacturer won't reproduce its latest album for fear of legal reprisals over Negativland's use of unauthorized material. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14765.html
- Satellites and Sand Traps - Golf goes high-tech with computerized carts that can chart a course, offer tips on tough holes, and order a Philly cheese-steak sandwich from the fairway. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16696.html
- Scientology Slips Through the Net - The Church of Scientology won a copyright suit against an electrical engineer from Palo Alto, California, who posted an L. Ron Hubbard document to a newsgroup. Despite the victory, though, the material appears to have escaped into the public realm. By Judy Bryan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12355.html
- Screens, Memes, Art Themes - Multimedia artists have installed themselves in a New York art space to examine love, loss, alienation, and physical space. By James Oliver Cury. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15001.html
- Scripting For the Digital Age - Interactive television programming is on the way. But who's going to write it? A writers' panel at the Mill Valley Film Festival talks it over. By Prateek Sarkar. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15561.html
- See You, See Me - Sony has devised a fix for its popular NightShot cameras, which have been found to offer peeping-tom views of fully clothed people. But sales of the "defective" model soar. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14447.html
- Seeing the Body Electric - A Southern California fashion show explores how technology and entertainment will merge in our garments. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10259.html
- Selling Bottled Newsgroups - Deja News' new service, Discussions, will allow Web sites to include packaged newsgroups from the million-posts-a-day Usenet. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12970.html
- Sex on the Web: The Upgrade - A new site aims to improve the quality of online erotica -- and boost the quality of life for those who write it. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12240.html
- SF's Burning, Man - The festival, which fled to the Nevada desert after getting cold-shouldered in San Francisco, is staging a kiss-and-make-up love-in with the City by the Bay. By David Cassel. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14151.html
- Sharing the Fire Online - An educational program called Cradleboard, founded by Buffy Sainte-Marie, matches up Native American and non-Native students to get beyond stereotypes. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12630.html
- Shatner vs. Faulkner - Which William is the better writer? You'd be surprised at the results compiled in Random House's online poll of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. By David Cassel. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13928.html
- Shoot 'Em Ups Getting Smarter - Scientists may be advancing artificial intelligence research, but gaming engineers are already having fun with it. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15149.html
- SI Makes You Pay to Play - If you want to see Sports Illustrated's online version of the Swimsuit '98 issue with its two-piece bonus, be prepared to fork over the price of a movie. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10351.html
- Sierra Gears Up With New Sports Brand - Veteran PC gamemaker winds up its pitch for the growing sports-genre market by combining three popular series and stacking store shelves with a host of new and repackaged games. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10454.html
- Silicon Alley North? - The Highlight Quebec conference in New York pitches the idea of collaboration between digital Canadians and their US neighbors. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11674.html
- Silicon Alley Struts Its Stuff - The movers and the shakers of the New York new media scene take their dubious talents out of the closet in a benefit for a new organization that funds independent Web projects. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11480.html
- Silicon Valley Space Crunch - Real estate is so tight that one Los Altos company has been forced to house its support personnel in a former dry cleaner's shop. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11910.html
- SimCity Gets Realer - With an upgrade coming in February, the game that started the simulation craze 10 years ago is back -- and now, it's free and online. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17088.html
- Site Sues over Dr. Laura Nudes - The former host of the teen virgins hoax warns other Web sites to keep their mitts off its full-frontal Dr. Laura photos. At least one webmaster puts up a fight. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16399.html
- Slaves to the View-Master - The once futuristic plaything has become a retro pastime for many modern adults. By Mark Frauenfelder. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13649.html
- Sleeping Beauty vs. the World - Do you have what it takes to fight the greatest corporate entertainment monster of all time? Try your hand at a game that parodies the Walt Disney empire. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16738.html
- Small Soldiers No Big Deal - Joe Dante's latest sinister comedy isn't so sinister. Or that funny, either. By Dave McCoy. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13609.html
- Smells (Almost) Like Web Art - A New York artist pretends to preview his latest work. It may be art, but it isn't the Web. By Reena Jana. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16417.html
- Smithsonian's History of Little Things - Hammers, bowling balls, sack dresses, and other humble objects reveal their stories in an innovative online exhibition. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11537.html
- So Long, Celluloid - Movie studios buy into digital projection systems that could free them from distributing celluloid to theaters. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16357.html
- Some Nerve - Nerve defined "literate smut" as a new literary form. Now the zine is leading the movement from Web to print. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15153.html
- Something Gross About Mary - There's Something About Mary, the latest picture from Hollywood's most perverse directors, will shake up summer boredom, shock folks everywhere, and hammer another nail into the heart of political correctness. By Dave McCoy. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13755.html
- Something Old, Something New - As we move deeper into the new media and info-tech future, old media will not die. We will simply recycle it, conclude participants in the Communicating Culture conference. By Judy Bryan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15814.html
- Something Old, Something New - The World of Atari '98 convention proves old systems never die. By Lauren Fielder. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14613.html
- SonicNet Eyes Interactive TV - A coming relaunch will reorganize the music site, boost its content, and experiment with video interactivity - all in hopes on being ready by the time interactive cable becomes a reality. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10029.html
- Sony Makes Big Push Into Online Gaming - The company has created a new division devoted solely to online entertainment, hoping its film and TV properties, in addition to its other games, will lure players away from their TV sets. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11364.html
- Sowing the Digital Seeds - Nicholas Berezovsky is crossing the prairie the old, hard way -- by covered wagon -- to convince Kansas historians to enter the era of online archiving. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13111.html
- Space Oddity - NASA's much-trumpeted plans to blast Senator John Glenn into outer space just may trace their roots to an episode of The Simpsons. By Mr. Mxyzptlk. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15300.html
- Spaceport Resort Lands - An art installation/nightclub exhibits the effect a regular Star Trek diet has on some artists. It involves funny outfits and singing in space languages. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14973.html
- Stamping Out Spam - It's the scourge of the digital age. A new book has practical advice for controlling unwanted email and news postings. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15457.html
- Stanford Offers Desktop Degree - This September, Stanford University will welcome students back to school, but not necessarily back to campus. A few engineering students will earn graduate degrees entirely online. By Beverly Hanly. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14876.html
- Stars Smile on Gates - Surrender, Netscape! Even the zodiac is on Redmond's side for 1999, says online astrologer Kelli Fox. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17021.html
- Starship Titanic Sails Into Computer Gaming - Having learned that being a popular author is no guarantee of your computer game's success, Douglas Adams hopes that his new CD-ROMs lifelike language will prove popular with his literary fans. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11739.html
- Start Is Up - Microsoft quietly released a preview of its Internet Start on Monday, and so far, so what? By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13062.html
- Stay Home and Go Back to School - For a number of students this fall, going to college classes will mean curling up in their pajamas with a laptop or catching a lecture during a coffee break at work. By Beverly Hanly. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15060.html
- Straight Outta Redmond - Ken Barnes, compiler of "The Microsoft Lexicon," talks about tracking buzz-phrases in a high-tech hive mind. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14415.html
- Strange Musical Instruments Serenade Financial Hub - The World Financial Center takes stock of musical inventors in a performance series and exhibit that showcases way-out creation. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9546.html
- Street Cred: All Natural and Complex - Magazines focusing on the natural world are plentiful these days, but the quarterly Terra Nova towers above the competition. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10857.html
- Street Cred: Audio Geek Chic - Operation Re-Information is reinventing the next generation of electronica music. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10355.html
- Street Cred: Bunny Bashing for Fun and Profit - Ulitma Online is filled with bugs, loopholes, and even psychopaths. But the game also presents a promising experiment, with plenty of reward for those willing to stick it out. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10018.html
- Street Cred: Chills, Thrills, and Frills - The eagerly anticipated sequel to Tomb Raider offers the chance to spend more quality time with Lara Croft, the treasure-hunting heroine made famous in the series. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10292.html
- Street Cred: From Apple to Zapruder - In his new book, Feed's Steven Johnson examines the machine, software, and network interfaces of the past half century in light of more archaic developments. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9977.html
- Street Cred: Goodbye, Betty Crocker - Brother's Kitchen Assistant is far from the first chip-based device to land in our kitchens. But it may be the cutest. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10291.html
- Street Cred: Live and Let Die - In GoldenEye 007, the world of James Bond has been captured on the Nintendo 64. Save the free world and hang out with sexy, heavily armed women. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Practical Applications - A new biography of Frederick Winslow Taylor maps out the transformation of the world into what it is today marked by a "fierce, unholy obsession with time, order, productivity, and efficiency". [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10293.html
- Street Cred: Technology's Children - They don't speak in proper sentences, and their world has a decidedly psychedelic feel. But rugrats just love the BBC's Teletubbies, which debuts on American television this spring. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10207.html
- Street Cred: The Game of Life - Domestic animals used to be hot vehicles for practicing child-rearing techniques, but perhaps a new generation will hone its parenting chops via hot software simulations. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10107.html
- Street Cred: Friend or Foe? - The Blade Runner universe, introduced to the world 16 years ago by Ridley Scott, is still kicking, and now it's come to a CD-ROM drive near you. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10206.html
- Street Cred: Roll Camera, Roll Heads - Nowhere is the convergence of silicon and celluloid more evident than on the blood-spattered battlefield of Bungie's newest game. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10345.html
- Street Cred: Sugar and Spice - Purple Moon's CD-ROMs are more than a stage on which girl gamers can act in real-life situations. They're also entertaining adventures. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10168.html
- Study Is a Bummer - A report from Carnegie-Mellon University says Net use damages social ties. The Well's Gail Williams looks at online life from the trenches. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14782.html
- Suck: Technicolor Yawn - Hollywood rarely gets it right when entering the world of Washington, DC. So the advance buzz surrounding the screen version of Primary Colors - that it doesn't live up to the novel penned by "Kleinonymous" - is hardly surprising. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10268.html
- Surely, You Jest - If laughter is the best medicine, then it stands to reason that this is one of the best sites on the Web. Or might become one, after it has the chance to grow a little. By David Pescovitz. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16567.html
- Surfing to a Different Drum - Net users are not all alike in their habits. A new study suggests clear differences in the surfing habits of Net newbies and the Net savvy. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15538.html
- SWM Seeks SWF, Any Age, Via WWW - The online dating game isn't the saccharine storybook vision presented in the upcoming Tom Hanks flick You've Got Mail. Thankfully, it's a little more random. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16415.html
- SWM Seeks SWF, Any Age, Via WWW - The online dating game isn't the saccharine storybook vision presented in the upcoming Tom Hanks flick You've Got Mail. Thankfully, it's a little more random. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16409.html
- Symantec Spam Sparks Furor - The prominent computing-tools developer claims that an unsolicited advertisement, sent to thousands of netsurfers, was a "mistake." [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10360.html
- Take a Sip of Salon - The online magazine known for breaking several important stories in the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal opens an online store. Starbucks beware. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15451.html
- Takin' It to the ... Screen - A coalition of micropower radio broadcasters and pro-Zapatista activists will stage an "online sit-in" at the FCC later this year to protest what it calls the agency's stifling of the freedom of the airwaves. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13278.html
- Taking a Global Snapshot Online - The editors at the National Geographic Society want to get a picture of human migration patterns, and they're focusing their instruments online. By Lauren Fielder. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15424.html
- Taking It to the Streets - Hey, good buddy, is that a monitor on your dashboard, or are you just happy to see me? Forget double-clutching, truckers are learning how to double-click. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13270.html
- Taking On Lara Croft - In Lara's Book, Douglas Coupland, the author of Generation X and Microserfs, deconstructs the cult heroine of the videogame universe. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13804.html
- Talk-Back TV - EMNetwork and EchoStar are partnering to offer PC users interactive content via satellite. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14507.html
- Teachers Turning Tech - Texas teachers are finding it easy to leave the public schools for better pay in the burgeoning high-tech sector. By Kevin Fullerton. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13249.html
- Techno Toddlers - New "lapware" gives babies a head start on the computer learning curve, while giving their parents another way to bond with the kids. By Susan Kuchinskas. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13896.html
- Techno-Destructo Show a Dud - Maybe it was because San Francisco's fire and police chiefs were looking on. Whatever the reason, a Survival Research Laboratories show Thursday lacked the magic -- and fire -- of past performances. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13284.html
- Teen SWAT Team for Y2K - While Y2K survivalists prepare to run for the hills, Mick Winter found a way to stave off the millennium bug in his own community. He recruited an army of sharp high-schoolers. By Spencer E. Ante. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15333.html
- Teens Enter Virgin Territory - In August, a couple of 18-year-olds are scheduled to have sex for the first time, not in a car or a hotel, but on the Internet. The Web site creator says his intentions are strictly honorable. By Joe Nickell and Judy Bryan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13761.html
- Teens Enter Virgin Territory - The creator of a Web site that will feature two teenagers allegedly having sex for the first time claims that his intentions are strictly honorable. By Joe Nickell and Judy Bryan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13716.html
- Tetris Pressures Game Act-Alikes - The Tetris Company flexes its muscle, threatening small sites that copy the most popular computer game in history. Does it have a leg to stand on? By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16619.html
- Thanks, Mozilla - With the news that Netscape may become another logo in AOL's cyber-mall, a love letter to the software that opened a window on a new world. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16434.html
- The Amazon of Antiquaries - Rare and out-of-print books are the latest hot e-commerce item. One new site aims to be the primary nexus of buyers and sellers. By Dan Brekke. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16876.html
- The Beastly Boys - Suck's Evil Genius Grant goes to the bad boys from New York. Once they were just three scruffy punks. Now they've traded in stupid for -- egads! -- artistic. Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15592.html
- The Beat Goes Off - A rancorous battle over the Kerouac legacy claims its latest casualty: one of the most creative mailing lists on the Net. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11381.html
- The Big, the Bad, and the Naked - What one man saw during the final hours of Burning Man, the hottest show on Earth. Will he ever be the same again? By Niall McKay. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14886.html
- The Color of Artists' Rights - The Grey Day campaign intends to draw attention to intellectual property and copyright issues. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14343.html
- The Commerce of Coping - Journalism students at Columbia University have created a Web site that takes a critical look at stress and the self-help industries that feed on it. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12272.html
- The Dandy - Always one to remind us of how dumb we really are, Harper's editor Lewis Henry Lapham II is given his very own Suck EGG as a sign of gratitude. Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15809.html
- The Doctor Is In - Brooklyn-based recording artist Dr. Israel pushes the "illbient" electronic-music genre into lush new frontiers. By Mitch Myers. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16327.html
- The Doctor Is On Board - If Gopher can't find Doc, Isaac's serving drinks to Meredith Baxter, and Julie's busy waltzing with Don Knotts, who you gonna call? SeaMed. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12700.html
- The End of Dead-Tree Lit - Xander Mellish thinks the era of Mailer and Plimpton is over, and she's launching a reading series for online writers in Manhattan to prove it. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12091.html
- The First Broadcast - Three film auteurs overcome major obstacles to make the first digital feature to be distributed via satellite. By Spencer E. Ante. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14111.html
- The First Broadcast - A pair of filmmakers beams their new release into space, potentially changing the face of film distribution. By Marc Savlov. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15781.html
- The Gadget Gazettes - Sure, your Palm III helps you manage your finances. But it's also a "lifestyle product," a device that has inspired a new genre of corporate communication. By Tom Dowe. [Wired News]
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- The Getty Tackles Tech Culture - Suits, educators, scientists, artists, and politicians will gather in Los Angeles this week to try and figure out how communication links tech and culture. By Kendra Mayfield. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15727.html
- The Great American Novice - William Styron, Dominick Dunne, and John Updike on why they fear the Net. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12563.html
- The Great Kidney-Snatch Myth - It's not true that gullible fools are lured to parties, then drugged and robbed of their kidneys by organ thieves. But a lot of people believe it, and the Internet is one reason why. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17083.html
- The Individualist's Music Model - Todd Rundgren wants to knock record companies out of the race to distribute music on the Internet. He talked about it at the New Minds forum Thursday night. By Beverly Hanly. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15938.html
- The Kids Are All Right - A successful teen journalism site demonstrates that students are as interested as anyone in tackling weighty topics. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15648.html
- The Machine-Baby Interface - Robbie Davis-Floyd and Joseph Dumit, authors of Cyborg Babies: from Techno-sex to Techno-Tots, discuss the intersection of technology and procreation. By R.U. Sirius. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14584.html
- The Mouse That Roared - An upcoming symposium will salute Douglas Engelbart, the man who forever changed the way humans and computers interact. James Glave reports from Silicon Valley. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16626.html
- The Net Connection that Could - A little computer store circumvents Haiti's two lethargic ISPs by offering fast and reliable wireless Net connections. By Jason Turbow. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15641.html
- The Not-So-Happy Hacker - A suspect in the recent hack of The New York Times Web site says the FBI is barking up the wrong tree. Carolyn Meinel says her fellow hackers hate her. Arik Hesseldahl reports from New York. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16872.html
- The Once and Virtual King - An eccentric monarch who briefly ruled the lost Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia virtually re-ascends the throne, thanks to the Net. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15227.html
- The Online Editorial Tightrope - News providers on the Internet who mix content and commerce may be reaching for profitability at the expense of their credibility. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15056.html
- The Other Y2K Problem - The Millennium Experience -- a massive dome rising in London -- hopes to bring Britons together at the beginning of a new century. But first they need to decide what it is. By Diane Miller. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14261.html
- The PowerPoint Amateur Hour - What's the fastest way to irk a roomful of engineers and hard-core technical types? Let's begin with our first slide.... By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
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- The Synthetic Pleasure of Electronic Music - After her last film explored the brave new worlds of artificial creation, director Iara Lee has turned her lens to the world of the digital underground. [Wired News]
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- The Trouble with Net Art - Internet artists and curators gather in Berlin to hash out the nagging issues of how to stop the hardware, and the Web itself, from stealing the show. By David Hudson. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16023.html
- The Ultimate Even Playing Field - Silicon Valley execs don't head for golf courses to wheel and deal. There's a better -- if sweatier -- place to do business. By Lauren Barack. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16505.html
- The View from up There - An eco-activist celebrates her first year living high in a Northern California forest canopy with the help of solar panels, cell phones, and other tree-top technology. By Nora Isaacs. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16760.html
- The Walker Goes for Digital Art - Web art gets a new vote of confidence as a major US museum acquires one of the most respected sites devoted to the medium. By Reena Jana. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16464.html
- The Web Suspends Publication - The magazine that merged coverage of Internet lifestyles with Hollywood and pop culture is going on indefinite hiatus, say insiders. The magazine's annual Webby awards - and Web site - will continue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9512.html
- The Wired Artisan - The craft may be digital, but it's still hands-on at Ojai's newest art studio. By Susan Kuchinskas. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14118.html
- The Work of the People - If you think special-interest campaigning couldn't sink any lower, this round-up of political pandering could make you think again. Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16020.html
- The Wright Stuff - Fifty years after inheriting the aviators' memorabilia, a museum finds a way to share it with the public. Theta Pavis reports from Philadelphia. [Wired News]
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- The Year We Noticed Y2K - Tired of the millennium bug already? Don't be. Technology's turning point will dominate the news in 1999. Stockpiling food may even become chic. Analysis by Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17093.html
- Theater of the Undead - A pair of twentysomethings with too much time on their hands spoof the classics with their own little shop of horrors. By Marc Savlov. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13862.html
- They (Used to) Write the Songs - OLGA, a site where amateur guitarists compared notes on popular songs, was forced to close its pages by an agency claiming the site violates professional musicians' copyrights. By Michael Stutz. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12937.html
- They Want the Airwaves - After a federal judge refused to allow pirate radio its day in court, one Northern California renegade DJ took his case to the streets. By Heidi Kriz. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14326.html
- Those Digital Stardust Memories - With help from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services, Hoagy Carmichael is entering the digital age. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15945.html
- Tickle Me, WebTV - Children's Television Workshop wants kids to play in the street -- Sesame Street. That's why the preschool set could lead the charge for interactive television. By Beverly Hanly. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15426.html
- Time for a Change? - Mac versus Windows? Fuhgeddaboutit. A Swiss watchmaking company is digging trenches for the newest standards battle: how we tell time. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16573.html
- Tiny Tears - By not saying anything, TV ing nue Neve Campbell meant a lot. Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
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- Titanic vs. Popotla - Both the film and the Mexican fishing village it was filmed in are to receive awards for work well done, but it's the low-tech underdog that comes out looking good. By David Kushner. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14294.html
- Tokyo Techno in Berlin - Visitors to a German museum can escape frigid winter days and enter a virtual city on the other side of the world. David Hudson reports from Berlin. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16829.html
- Too Legit to Quit - Allan Weiner used to be an inspiration to pirate-radio enthusiasts. Now he's gone legal on them. By Hans Johnson. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15207.html
- Toon Town Comes to Life Online - To debut its Web Premiere Toon series with a bang, the Cartoon Network will bring you the first animated feature by the Picasso of punk, Gary Panter. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15455.html
- Top 100 Backlashes - Random House's list of the best books of the 20th century has drawn fire from both old and new media, who have published their own, more well-rounded lists. By David Cassel. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14090.html
- Top US Students Meet Silicon Valley Start-Ups - While inspired by the myth and glamour of Silicon Valley start-ups, many debt-laden students find the uncertain prospects of most new companies scary. But for many fortune-seekers it's a necessary danger. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9593.html
- Tracing the Future - From England, a hothouse of experimental hypertext with a difference: deep pockets, courtesy of the British lottery. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15292.html
- Trade a Tape, Go to Jail? - The Recording Industry Association of America is cracking down on bootleg tape traders with Web sites, sending traders further underground. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9532.html
- Trance Mission - Can we really blame Trent Lott, the pope, or anyone else for America's hate crimes? Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16717.html
- Treasure Trove of American Lit - To build a continuum between a prestigious past and an online future, the sponsors of the National Book Awards will put their archive of rare letters and speeches on the Web. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11933.html
- Tropicalismo 2.0 - Music legend Gilberto Gil's new album is about typical Brazilian themes - the Internet and quantum physics. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10428.html
- Tune In, Turn On ... To What? - So, you're the first one on your block with a digital TV. You think the Joneses are going to run out and buy one, too? Don't bet on it. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14781.html
- Turning Over a New Leaf - Wired News talks with Microsoft's Dick Brass about the Open eBook standard: how it may kick start a whole new industry and put a library in your hand. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15501.html
- Turnkey Democracy - A young entrepreneur is hoping he's created the killer voter app for the Web, and online media, legislators, and nonprofits are signing up to sign on. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13469.html
- Tyrannosaurus Imax - Director Brett Leonard is seeking a place in film history with the likes of the Lumi res with his new Imax 3-D dino flick, T-Rex. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12433.html
- Uncensoring the World - A new Web site called the Digital Freedom Network will publish articles, letters, and cartoons that have been banned by repressive regimes from Asia to the Americas. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12116.html
- Universal Access, To Boot - The electric company in Bariloche, Argentina, is offering locals free email accounts. Hiking boots not included. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15463.html
- Unspinning the Media - Had enough of Monica mania? NY's Web Lab opens a site to give netsurfers a place to dig beneath the headlines and uncover their own stories. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16052.html
- Updata: Spam Cartel? - When we first met Sanford Wallace, his start-up, CyberPromotions Inc., was sending several hundred thousand unsolicited email ads each week. Since then, he's upped the ante. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10273.html
- Upgrading the Human OS - A tribute to mouse inventor Douglas Engelbart proved a brain-bath of ideas and reflections from the leading minds of the tech world. Steve Silberman reports from Silicon Valley. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16752.html
- Urban Desires to Relaunch as Visual Showcase - One of the first wave of webzines will return as an online stop for indie films, animations, and games. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10958.html
- US West Teaches Kids to Teach Tech - A new foundation from US West is giving kids and adults computers and training, then sending them back to their communities to spread the knowledge. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10551.html
- Using Pop Icon to Fight Terror - Amid the multimedia industry's blowout in Cannes, Colombian artist and human rights activist Santiago Echeverry talks about using an unlikely weapon - the image of Carmen Miranda - to battle oppression. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10183.html
- Vaporware: Call for Submissions - Remember PowerAgent? Neither does anyone else. That's why the marketing tool earned top billing in last year's Wired News Vaporware Awards. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16497.html
- Video Fracas Erupts on Web - After a slew of sites trash the pay-per-view digital-video format, fans lash back in support of Divx. Or do they? By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16889.html
- Video Spice - Spice up your life -- or at least your PlayStation. Spice World, Psygnosis' new videogame starring the ubiquitous Spice Girls, hits stores across the US this week. By Moira Muldoon. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14234.html
- Violent Games, Violent Kids - Duke Nukem and other videogames not only profit from violence but encourage kids to use it in real life, two US senators say. By Ronald Warren Deutsch. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16599.html
- Virtual Sex, Real Fun - Your online escapades can enhance your offline sex life, one sexpert says. She's written a book she hopes will help people who talk the virtual talk walk the real walk. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15383.html
- Visions of a (Snow-Covered) Tech Paradise - The city of Rochester, New York, needs high-tech workers. To lure them, it has launched a marketing campaign promoting the city's myriad job opportunities, friendly atmosphere, and easy commutes. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10399.html
- Waiting to Fast-Forward - The buzz at New York's Plug.In '98 conference: The online music industry is going places, yes, but it's going to be a few years before things really take off. By James Oliver Cury. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13772.html
- Wall of Voodoo - Is Los Angeles burning? Suck takes another look at the politics of paranoia put forth in Mike Davis' City of Quartz. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16851.html
- Warming to a Global Movement - Bruce Sterling, one of the original cyberpunks, tells R.U. Sirius about his plans for a new -- and green -- cultural movement. CFCs need not apply. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16777.html
- Watching the Watchdogs - If a techno-news story sounds too good to be true, it probably is. And a Forbes editor says he has the dirt to prove it. By Judy Bryan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14723.html
- Weaving Stories from SF to Kiev - Digital Story Bee kicks off Jewish Web Week by teaching women the world over to tell their stories online. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10462.html
- Web 'Oscars' Announced at Comdex - The Global Information Infrastructure awards recognized sites in a wide variety of categories, each of which, sponsors say, have gone beyond cool, to have real impact on the world. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11797.html
- Web Awards Jostle for Attention - Film has the Oscars, Broadway has the Tonys, but what does the Web have? A bunch of insignificant awards vying for the prime slot. By Joyce Slaton. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16720.html
- Web Geeks in Topsiders - Twenty yachts set sail this weekend -- hurricanes permitting -- their solo skippers circling the globe as the online world looks on. By Kristen Bruno. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15156.html
- Web Lab Puts Cash Behind Interactivity - P.O.V. creator Marc Weiss opened up TV to the vision of documentary filmmakers. Now his Web Development Fund is supporting sites where people can 'talk across their differences.' [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12149.html
- Web Lab's Weiss on Vision - New York's Web Lab -- a hothouse of online creativity -- is about to begin its second round of funding promising sites. Director Marc Weiss talks about what the company's learned. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14278.html
- Webmasters, Not Old Masters - The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art continues to acquire Web sites and is preparing to add a host of Razorfish projects, empasizing the use of Java, to its collection. But is it art? [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11951.html
- Webzine Publishers Grapple with Self-Definition - Web personalities struggle to define themselves at Austin's South by Southwest. The battle over the appropriate metaphor continues. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11024.html
- Weekend to Turn WIMPs into Supermachines - Experts from the military, education, politics, and interactive art worlds will convene this weekend in New York to consider advances in interfaces and brainstorm the future of human-machine interactivity. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9693.html
- What Comes After Cool on the Web? - Site of the Day awards are not enough anymore, says a coalition of publishers who want to start a peer-review process to recognize online "Oscar-winners." [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11406.html
- Where Women Surf - Women and investors are flocking to iVillage, a site that has found success letting readers do the talking. By Grace Lichtenstein. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12652.html
- Who Owns Hate on the Net? - A dispute over the name 'HateWatch' pits an ex-Harvard bigotry watchdog against a conservative 'country boy from the Bible Belt.' By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12761.html
- Why Buy the Cow? - Free downloads of the Starr report aren't doing it for consumers, who are putting out cold cash to get their hot little hands on the hard copy. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15369.html
- Why Girls Dislike Technology - Girls study the sciences, too, but still aren't pursuing careers in technology like the boys. A new study suggests some reasons why. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15610.html
- Will Net, Entertainment Ever Mix? - Cybervisionaries at a California conference say today's technology just can't deliver what it takes to keep audiences happy. Industry money people, though, still see the new medium as a gold mine. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10285.html
- William Gibson to Write X-Files Episode - Surprised that the show's producers kept the esoteric references he wrote into the dialog, Gibson hails the series' "sublime" humor and weirdness. The icon of cyberpunk fiction hopes his story will have the feel of a David Cronenberg film. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9625.html
- Willie Wonka of the Net - Former Eurythmics star and current multimedia-Renaissance man Dave Stewart is poised to launch an Internet-only video show and myriad other online events. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14912.html
- Wired's Best List - Great stuff - tested and approved in our top-secret labs. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10232.html
- Wiring the Gay World - Journalist Rex Wockner is using the Net to change the way gay issues are covered in the media -- and nurturing an emerging global movement in the process. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14229.html
- Word Down: The End of an Era - As parent company Icon closes down the groundbreaking Web site, Word founding editor Marisa Bowe reflects on the cultural ferment from which it was born. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10829.html
- Working on Wiring the World - Education activists, political leaders, and high-tech professionals discuss leveling the global playing field at the State of the World Forum. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15941.html
- World Species Webified - The Global Biological Information Facility hopes to catalog all the world's known species on the Web. While it may be a great resource, it could also be a poachers' road map. By Ilan Greenberg. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14332.html
- X-Files Wins Invision - The game inspired by the TV show shares top honors with the multimedia version of the romantic Griffin and Sabine tales. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16240.html
- Y2K Bug: Older Programmers Ready, Willing, but Stable - Elder mainframe gurus are eager to work on fixing code to "save the country's ass," but many can't or won't leave their retirement cities. Will financial firms resolve their fears of using off-site contractors and take the work to the workers? [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9767.html
- Y2K: A Novel Approach - There's still time to catch the millennium bug, and a number of books and sites are passing it on. Wired News takes a look. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14493.html
- Y2K: The Missionary Position - The millennium bug is cause for alarm among some segments of the US Christian community. Make that holy terror. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15759.html
- You Can't Believe Your Eyes - Artists and editors meet in San Francisco to discuss photo manipulation and how to keep doctored images out of the news pages. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14798.html
- You're Playing Their Songs - Add music-publishing companies to the list of netphobes. They're up in arms over sites that offer sheet music for download. By Ronald Warren Deutsch. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16791.html
- You've Got Product Placement - A romantic-comedy blockbuster stars Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan -- and America Online. Everyone's cashing in, but no one's saying who paid whom how much for what. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16046.html
- Your Computer, Your Symphony - A new shareware program plunders your computer for sounds, then reconstructs them as ambient music. The underlying familiarity can make these sonic creations a little unnerving. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10864.html
- Your Thoughts: A Permanent Public Record - Deja News has become one of the most popular sites on the Web by making newsgroups permanent and searchable. But what's that doing to the conversations on Usenet? [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10780.html
- Zapping the High School Market - A company is offering high schools free computer equipment and wireless Net access in exchange for the privilege of serving students marketing messages. By Oscar Cisneros. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15750.html
- Zelda Gets Naughty - The videogame queen meets "the King of Jiggle" in a domain-name dispute -- just in time for the Christmas rush. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16830.html
- Ziff-Davis Not Amused by Parody - Size jokes may be everywhere these days, but when a ZDNet exec found his name attached to an annoy.com satire, he sent in the lawyers. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11999.html
- Zing Pulls Strings on the Web - A new "online entertainment network" has devised filler for those long moments surfers spend waiting for pages to load. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13197.html
- Zone of Discovery - The second phase of Web photo-documentary The New Americans finds its creators returning to a subject they began two years ago: the changes wrought by families crossing and recrossing the US/Mexican border. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11222.html
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