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Flight data vs. flight memory
Once upon a time, when the world was neither more nor less dangerous than it is now, awful…
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Rainier, ‘ritin’, and ‘rithmetic
A unique student jobs-training program incorporates knowledge and nature.
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Not the boss of me
Enough, please, of Microsoft. There will of course be no end of Microsoft, not for a while; as…
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Big Apple Bezos
So the allergy season undid me and I bailed for New York, a junket that involves cashing in…
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Invisible Man vs. Invisible Hand
I suspect that folks who pick stock based on online gossip are akin to senior citizens who spend…
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Full-access feds?
Bash a gimp. Steal the cane from a blind man and hit him upside the head with it.…
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Don’t make them come in there
As regular readers of this column know, writing about stupid Amazon tricks is just about a full-time job.…
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No scents
My grandmother, who still runs her town’s public library at 85 (that’s not only her age but her…
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The home team
Most of the Net is still a consensual hallucination—there’s a there there, but only if we agree to…
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Be your own Net
A study released by Cornell University and published in Nature last week promises to hold the key to…
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Choose your evil
Which is worst: the evil you know, the evil you don’t know, or the evil that’s been around…
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You’ll geek to anything
I swear I don’t fault the film editor for sending me to review Dungeons and Dragons, the movie…
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A private gathering
I know Michael Moore (the good Yankees cap-wearing one, not the evil WTO-helming one) has already beaten down…
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Experts and cranks
A gentleman in New England prepared for January 1, 2000, by buying an entire encampment, on which he…
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From the desk of…
I’m all verklempt. You’ll have to forgive me. Last week was entirely too full of surprises. I don’t…
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Teenage.Wasteland
Let’s say it’s all true: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold posted their plans online, laid it all out…
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Online girliehood
The recent bust of Infoseek VP Patrick Naughton for soliciting a 13-year-old girl on the Net set me…
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Citizen’s uprising
There was very little not to love about last Saturday—Harry Potter at midnight, a three-hour Freaks and Geeks…