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1999 Stories by Fred Moody

• Trite and "True"

  published December 1, 1999

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• TiVolution

  published November 17, 1999

  It is now possible to pause live television. The implications, in terms of physics and philosophy, of such an advance are too momentous for me... More >>

• Uncommon Grounds

  published October 6, 1999

  Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark... More >>

• No Kidding

  published October 6, 1999

  Early on in this story of how he adopted a baby boy, Dan Savage and his live-in lover, Terry, walk into a conference room... More >>

• Black Planet

  published October 6, 1999

  One night during the 1994-95 NBA season, David Shields—who was stalking the Seattle SuperSonics that year disguised... More >>

• Black hole sonsabitches

  published September 22, 1999

  THE LATE CARL SAGAN spent a tremendous amount of time trying to figure out why there were no traces of life, save for Earth's, anywhere... More >>

• Zacked

  published May 26, 1999

  SINCE THE INTERNET had not yet been invented, no one realized that Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges had it in mind when he uttered his... More >>

• World Wide Wow

  published May 19, 1999

  TIME WAS, THE World Wide Web was a wide-open space peopled by the cyberspace equivalent of Hyde Park speakers: long on energy, but short... More >>

• Why Apple will never die

  published March 10, 1999

  When computer-interface expert Joey King got the call from his 81-year-old grandfather, he drove over to his house immediately. His... More >>

• Books Quarterly: All in a Day's Work at Virtual i/O

  published March 3, 1999

  Virtual i/O, the now-defunct manufacturer of head-mounted displays, is one of five high-tech start-ups chronicled in The Visionary... More >>

• Babble On

  published February 17, 1999

  WHAT CAN BE MORE irresistible than the opportunity to take some pompous, widely respected intellectual leader and knock him... More >>