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- 'Abduction' Casts Light on Online 'World of Darkness' - The online world where a missing teen met an airman is a baroquely imaginative subculture inspired by role-playing games like Vampire: The Masquerade. [Wired News]
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- 'Tricorder' May Revolutionize Diagnostic Medicine - The APEX scanner interacts with patients' DNA to detect diseases on the spot. [Wired News]
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- 3-D Modeling Crafts Custom Seating for the Digital Derriere - PinDot custom-fits cushions to clients' curves [Wired News]
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- Air Disasters Trigger Flames, Smoke on Net - A look at sites that might have saved Pierre Salinger. [Wired News]
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- Allen Ginsberg to Team with David Byrne - The duo is the latest acknowledgment of Ginsberg's role in the alternative universe. [Wired News]
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- An Interview with Nick Bantock Highlights His New Novel - The bestselling author of Griffin Sabine also has a new CD-ROM [Wired News]
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- An Unseemly Man, an Unlikely Hero: Larry Flynt Fights On - The porn provocateur and First Amendment champion says he's ready to battle again for free speech - this time on the Internet. [Wired News]
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- Angry Fans Wash Their Hands of The Spot - Readers protest American Cybercast's turn to mushy mainstream soaps. [Wired News]
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- As the Paradigm Turns, Cybersoaps Solicit Funding - The makers of Hollywood Stock Exchange hope online fans will finance their film venture. [Wired News]
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- Ask Dr. Weil: Tired After Turkey? - L-tryptophan could be the reason or you may just be over-stuffed. [Wired News]
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- Berkeley Dives into Bars with 'You Don't Know Jack' - CD-ROM from Berkeley Systems to compete with NTN trivia games. [Wired News]
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- Bet On It: Off-Track Goes Online - An off-track betting company may have found a way to circumvent the complications of the gambling regulations of the Interstate Wire Act. [Wired News]
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- Big Apple's Kiosks Hard to Follow - and Swallow - New York City's effort to make itself interactive is a one-way dud. [Wired News]
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- Bookstores Find New Niches Online - Small bookstores invent strategies to get their piece of the Amazon pie. [Wired News]
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- Boy 'Bimbos' Too Much for Game-Maker Maxis - The pre-Christmas shipment of SimCopter contains an interestingly hunky hack: swimsuit-clad 'muscle boy' Sims kissing - complete with smooch sounds. [Wired News]
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- Boycott Maxis? 'Absurd,' Fired Programmer Says - An ACT UP member says Maxis' "attack on OUR First Amendment rights," deserves a boycott. The programmer who sparked the CD-ROM controversy thinks that's going too far. [Wired News]
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- BS Detector: 'Internet Addiction' Meme Gets Media High - It started as a joke. Now the 'Internet Addiction Disorder' is generating headlines and clinics. [Wired News]
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- BS Detector: Anti-White Power Spams Refuse to Die - The online world has given birth to another self-propagating meme: "Vote No to Nazis!" [Wired News]
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- BS Detector: The In-Home HIV Database - A Net rumor questions the privacy of in-home HIV tests. We run it through the BS Detector. [Wired News]
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- Cocktail of the Week: Whiskey on the Rocks - Under any pretext,there's no more comforting or inspiring drink. [Wired News]
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- CompuServe, Prodigy Seek Safety in Niches - With AOL content going ever more mainstream, CompuServe and Prodigy rethink their focus. [Wired News]
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- Computers are, Like, Inescapable, Beavis - Beavis and Butt-head Do America ads prove you shouldn't believe everything you learn on MTV. [Wired News]
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- Directors Protest Digital TV Accord - Hollywood is mad over the new digital TV standard. [Wired News]
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- Documentary Focuses on Stories, Not Stars, of Seattle - Doug Pray's Seattle music-scene film cuts through the hype. [Wired News]
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- Dr. Weil: Beating Seasonal Depression - Full-spectrum light, feverfew and meletonin are possible solutions. [Wired News]
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- Drink of the Week: The Old Fashioned - A drink both frilly and disciplined as good as an old-fashioned spanking [Wired News]
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- Drudge Flash: Brit Jumps Ship - Reporter Brit Hume announced his resignation from ABC News today. Heir apparent? John Donvan. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Flash: Hollywood Stars Lecture China - Richard Gere, Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, and other members of the "Hollywood family" say China's efforts to "restrict ... freedom of expression are wholly unacceptable." [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Beijing Takes on Disney - China has warned Disney against getting involved in a Dalai Lama film - and threatened to thwart the company's expansion into China. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Chelsea Meets Butt-head - Columnist Matt Drudge on Chelsea Clinton, Speilberg, and ever-faster information ever-faster information [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Courtney Love's on Her Way - New York film critics give Courtney Love 'best supporting actress' for Larry Flynt vs. the People. Golden Globe announcements cometh. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Golden Globe Fever - In Hollywood, an accolade is an accolade, even if it reeks of corruption. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: How Studios Pressure the Press - You only read what Hollywood wants you to read: entertainment journalism debunked. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Internet Withdrawal - Columnist Matt Drudge on the other side of "Internet Addiction." [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Letterman Eyes Tinseltown - 'It has been getting increasingly difficult to book good guests in New York,' an executive at CBS declared to the Drudge Report during a recent lunch at Television City. 'The planned move is designed to jump-start Dave's dramatic ratings slump.' [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Logrolling for Rosie - Columnist Matt Drudge on Entertainment Weekly's Christmas card to Rosie, the future of Fox News, and Jesus' diapers. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: NASA's Close Call - NASA astronauts Tamara Jernigan and Thomas Jones could have easily become the first humans locked out in space for eternity had the famed hatch on space shuttle Columbia gotten jammed after their spacewalk - not before. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: O.J.'s Smoking Shoe - Top experts have confirmed that O.J. is wearing Bruno Magli shoes in a set of photographs. Is this the evidence that will end up costing O.J. US$50 million in damages? [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Ovitz in Talks to Join Viacom - Matt Drudge says Ovitz, jettisoned from Disney, is in talks to fill the CEO slot at Viacom. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Probing a New Blacklist - Is the media the victim of Hollywood's latest blacklist? Columnist Matt Drudge weighs in on a hot new report. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Some Star Wars Fans Rebelling - The release of 'improved' Star Wars is upsetting some of the faithful, Matt Drudge says. One loyal fan says it's 'like watching your childhood being raped.' [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: The Presidential Party Season - Clinton is preparing for 22 Yuletide parties and a less glitzy second inaugural. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: The Wall Street Journal's Fee-Basing - The Wall Street Journal Web site, the first major online newspaper to enforce fee-based access, has just passed 30,000 customers. Who's next to start charging? Plus: Butt-head, and Whitewater [Wired News]
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- Drudge Hollywood: Why Ovitz Should Have Kept Quiet - Ovitz may lose his entire $90 million Disney severance because he couldn't keep quiet about it. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Politics: Clinton Vows to Tune In, Log On - So far, the president's bridge to the 21st century is pen and paper. Will that change in '97? [Wired News]
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- Drudge Report: Oprah vs. Rosie for the Oscars - Oprah's a contender to host the Awards - but wait, what about Rosie? [Wired News]
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- Drudge Vegas: That Comdex Attitude - Matt Drudge finds there's more kitsch at Comdex than in Hollywood [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: Buchanan Still Divides GOP - Buchanan 'remains the emotional fault line in the GOP,' a party insider tells columnist Matt Drudge. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: China Blasts US as '97 Dawns - Columnist Matt Drudge on China's end-of-the-year fury, Newt's TV moment, Drudge praise and thank-yous, Vegas New Year's, and 1997 forecasts. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: The Wrath of Watkins - Not content to let inaugural month pass with just parties and poetry, The American Spectator unleashes a damning interview with David Watkins, former director of administration in the Clinton White House. [Wired News]
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- Drudge: Spanish Station Wins Ratings Battle - WLTV in Miami is the first Spanish-language outlet to win a prime-time ratings battle in a major market [Wired News]
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- Electric Minds' 'Illusion' Draws 2,000 First-Week Members - Juxtaposition of content and conferencing distinguishes E-Minds. [Wired News]
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- Electric Word: Smell These Fonts - Bulletin from the front lines of the Digital Revolution. [Wired News]
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- Electric Word: The Art of Conversation - A British composer makes original music using cell phone conversations scavenged from the airwaves. [Wired News]
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- Eno's Book Traces A Year with Swollen Appendices - Colin Berry wagers that most readers would give their eyeteeth for a single day's worth of Eno's tribulations. [Wired News]
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- Eon4 Fans, Employees Protest AMCY - Producers resign and fans whine as AMCY tries to woo a mainstream audience [Wired News]
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- Experimentalist X-Art Unveils blast5art - The work will reside in a MOO, in the subway, on the Web, and in a New York gallery. [Wired News]
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- Festival Reveals Problem With Live Electronic Music - Though essentially about recontextualization of sound, the Recombinant festival was itself dependent on the context in which it was seen. [Wired News]
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- First Emperor's Army on the March at Virtual Heritage - Using VR technologies, historians re-create sites such as Gettysburg and Stonehenge. [Wired News]
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- For Interactive Artist, It's Lonely on the Edge - Andrew Leonard considers Frank Coleman's interactive artwork, in which online technology and creativity merge in fascinating ways. Is his vision passe, or passionately prescient? [Wired News]
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- Franklin Furnace Retires to the Web - After 20 years as one of New York's top alternative art spaces, a lack of funds drives the gallery online. [Wired News]
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- Geek Polo Trades Pony for Bumper Car - A cross between a videogame and an athletic activity, Whirly Ball is the perfect game for mouse potatoes. [Wired News]
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- Girl Gamers: Sugar, Spice, Everything Profitable? - Game companies are betting on kinder, pinker content to draw in girls. [Wired News]
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- Have Vanity Address, Will Travel - Why be known as 552993.2222@compuserve.com, when you can be john@imtoosexy.com or smartman@ alumni.harvard.edu? [Wired News]
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- Help for Carpal Tunnel? Consider Posture and B-6 - Dr. Weil suggests a few natural solutions for crippling CTS. [Wired News]
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- Homepages Hit the White Pages - Next year, some white pages on the East and West coasts are going to be more than just a telephone book: They'll be an Internet guide as well. [Wired News]
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- Hong Kong Action Flicks Easier to Find, Watch - Wagner James Au finds a new edition video series that boasts excellent letterbox prints and easy-to-read yellow subtitles designed for a non-Chinese audience. [Wired News]
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- How Confidential are Medical Records? Less Than You Think - Dr. Weil says never tell untruths in your medical records. Rather, try to talk with your doctor about your concerns. [Wired News]
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- I'd Like to Thank My Programmer: Another Digital Awards - Siliwood bigwigs will bring more awards glitz to the interactive set. [Wired News]
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- id Snubs GT Interactive in Favor of Activision - With plummeting stock and a lost contract, it's a blue Christmas for GT Interactive. [Wired News]
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- If It's Bits, It's ideaMarket's 'Meat' - ideaMarket promises to give consumers point-and-click delivery - at a modest price - of nearly anything that can be moved over a phone line, from Shakespeare to plug-ins to legal boilerplate. [Wired News]
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- If Rapture Index is High, End of the World is At Hand - Measuring worldwide apostasy activity, an Air Force sergeant quantifies the likelihood that the Rapture is about to take place. [Wired News]
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- iMALL Airs Get-Rich-Quick Infomercials - With titles like "The Superhighway to Riches," the programs are the first to focus on the Web's home-based business potential. [Wired News]
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- In Tokyo, Few Cafes Want to be Called "Cyber" - What had been this summer's trendiest epithet for a cafe is now the kiss of death. [Wired News]
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- Influential Designer Paul Rand Dies at 82 - Rand inspired generations of designers and brought the esthetics of modernist European movements to commercial art [Wired News]
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- Is MSG Sensitivity Real? Dr. Weil Thinks So. - Some doctors still dispute the existence of MSG symptom complex; others believe it's an inherited allergic reaction. [Wired News]
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- Just Outta Beta: Grove's New Book Looks Inside Intel - Jeffrey Mann reviews Only the Paranoid Survive by Andy Grove. [Wired News]
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- Just Outta Beta: Japan's Dreaming - John Couch reviews Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga [Wired News]
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- Just Outta Beta: Romancing the Media - Paul Saffo reviews the new book The Media Equation, which provides insights into crafting convivial computer interfaces that please users and blend into daily life. [Wired News]
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- Light Shines Darkly Over Game's Illusory Landscape - Of Light and Darkness yanks both the character and you into its deliriously surreal universe. Chris Hudak reviews the action. [Wired News]
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- Lights, Cappuccino, Action: Cyber Cafes Dish Up Glitz - Apple, Starbucks and House of Blues are boldly treading where so many small cyber cafes have fallen through the iced latte. [Wired News]
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- Liquor Ads Run Dry on Net - Congress is preparing to regulate liquor ads on Net - but where are these ads? [Wired News]
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- Losing Your Memory? What Was the Question? - Dr. Andrew Weil recommends Ginkgo biloba, certain essential oils, and mind exercises to stimulate your mind and cut your memory losses. [Wired News]
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- Make Your Own Weird Vibrations With a Pocket Theremin - Currently one of the hottest pieces of retro musical gear around, Longwave's Pocket Theremin lets anyone create convincing B-movie atmospherics. [Wired News]
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- McGraw-Hill Pre-Releases Books Online - Like early adopters of buggy beta browsers, readers are becoming involved in book development, thereby getting access to material they need sooner. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Peddles Glam - Will Consumers Buy? - The online fashion move comes as Microsoft is forging its way into the fashion software market. [Wired News]
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- Net's Pirate Sensibilities Thrive on TAZ - The Temporary Autonomous Zone: All the fun of revolution and none of the dirty work [Wired News]
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- Nonprofit Attacks MacWorld Over Ad for War Game - MacWorld is running a controversial ad it had vowed to boycott. [Wired News]
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- Not Just Tits and ASCII: Playboy's New Cyber Club - Software from Well Engaged will help to port Hugh Hefner's bachelor-pad 'Playboy philosophy' to cyberspace. [Wired News]
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- Official Star Wars Site Launches - But Who Knew? - While other film producers broadcast their URLS, LucasFilms is keeping its Star Wars site hush-hush. [Wired News]
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- Online CD-ROM Service Offers a Virtual Tour of Paris - A partnership between Le Deuxieme Monde and Obscura allows subscribers to roam the sewers of Paris, meet the dead and buy goods. [Wired News]
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- Online Connection is a Holiday Lifeline for Gays - Online support groups help gays and lesbians survive holiday homophobia. [Wired News]
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- Online Fans Sing Blues About Garcia Estate Wrangling - "This is the ultimate airing of dirty laundry," one Dead observer says. [Wired News]
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- Oz Author Accused of Advocating Genocide - An American Indian Web site claims that L. Frank Baum's newspaper editorials triggered the Wounded Knee massacre. [Wired News]
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- Paper Scapegoats Net for U2 Song Theft - The London newspaper blamed hackers for the theft of two U2 songs; Island says poppycock. [Wired News]
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- Paramount Locks Phasers on Trek Fan Sites - Resistance is futile, Paramount tells those who dare to put up unofficial Web sites. [Wired News]
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- QuakeWorld to Rattle Online Gaming Realm - If a certain beta-tester's very public hunch is correct, QuakeWorld, id's online gaming platform for Quake, will be available for download this weekend, and the fragging - complete with kill statistics - can begin. [Wired News]
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- Quorn's Popularity Mushrooming, but Yanks Must Go Without - While Europeans are eating up the flesh-like fungus, Quorn's still on the U.S. FDA's plate awaiting approval. [Wired News]
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- Resisting First Contact is Futile - The film deserves credit for freshening up the tired Cold War allegories that have always lurked very close to the surface of the Star Trek saga. [Wired News]
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- Rocket Science Gets Back to Gaming - Post-Siliwood titles set for December release. [Wired News]
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- Rogue Market Runs Meter on 15 Minutes of Fame - The site offers virtual equity in the personal fortunes of celebrities, from the sublime (painter Philip Taffe) to - well, Sheryl Crow. [Wired News]
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- Roll Your Own CD: Music Sites Push New Features - Music sites pile on intricate features in the face of new competition - and in the quest for new sales. [Wired News]
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- Russian Animation Comes Out of Cold Storage - A Russian Animation series serves up obscure 1960's classics. [Wired News]
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- Sagan's Legacy Lives On as His Cosmos Get New Respect - "The 'billllions and billllions' of stars now have one more among them," one online mourner writes. [Wired News]
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- Space: The Final Resting Place - Anyone who's ever wanted to be an astronaut can make it into low-Earth flight, at least after she or he dies. [Wired News]
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- Starwave Scores Online NBA Broadcast Rights - The deal highlights the value of live sports as online content. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Art in The Eye of a Needle - This book reveals the infinitesimal universe of artist Hagop Sandaldjian, creator of paintings on rice kernels and sculptures made of dust. [Wired News]
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- Talk to a Live Nude Brain, Get Search Results - The latest innovation in search-engine technology: unartifical agent-based services. [Wired News]
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- Techno-Savvy Teens Won't Make Adults Obsolete ... Yet - The dialed-in teenage crowd elevates peer pressure to mass media [Wired News]
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- The Net's Cultural Revolution is a Mirage - Andrew Leonard observes that the digicultural revolution never materialized. He suggests we all get back to work. [Wired News]
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- The Network Is the Instrument - For this wired band, networked MIDIs are a hub of musical interaction. [Wired News]
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- The Spam to End All Spams is Coming - It's the latest anti-spam software. Read all about it. Whether you want to or not. [Wired News]
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- Type With One Hand, Grab Your Joystick With the Other - Andrew Leonard feels the Net is the greatest boon to masturbators in the history of humanity. [Wired News]
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- Virtual Dreidels Spin as Hanukkah Lights the Web - Online Jews have a choice of two views of Hanukkah ceremonies at the Wailing Wall ported to the Web. [Wired News]
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- VRML Co-Creator Protests Consortium - Mark Pesce accuses co-workers of selling out. [Wired News]
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- Want 20 Grand? Pull a Prank, but Nicely - The Foundation for Convulsive Beauty promises cash for an act of esthetic rebellion. [Wired News]
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- Web Agents Top This Month's Hype List - Other overhyped memes include Speech recognition, and the demise of AOL. [Wired News]
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- When Web and Chaos Theory Meet, The Future Could be Weird - Andrew Leonard looks at Phase Transitions, Complexity Theory and where the Web as we know it today lies. [Wired News]
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- Why Some Bands Get Huge on the Web - Build a ridiculously devoted following. Cultivate angst appeal. And don't be irrelevant. Just a few suggestions for finding musical fame on the Net. [Wired News]
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- Will the Big Book Fair Subdivide and Multiply? - Net culture benefits from small fairs, where anyone can act like a big fish. [Wired News]
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- WIPO Proposal Would Turn Artists into Pirates - Copyright provisions under consideration by an obscure UN agency have serious ramifications for the creative community. [Wired News]
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