Before we get started this week, a plea from your Betty Ford-ready correspondent: Two dozen home-baked cookies in REWARD to…
Call me woefully naive, but I just don’t see a downside to last week’s disbursement from the Gates Foundation’s Santa…
Would you like to play a game? It’s an interesting game. I call it the grown-up game. Let’s assume for…
In all the fuss over the Redmond Menace (please, Judge Jackson, don’t break ’em up; you don’t understand how hard…
Strange once again to see Microsoft handed its head by one of the few companies more hated than itself. First…
Not another blessed word about that endless presidential election. (Shouldn’t we have had lapel ribbons or something, like with the…
If you were to exile me to a desert island (no, this is not a Survivor-themed column) and I were…
Reading the Findings of Fact as a riveting novel.
Our government is working hard to protect us from bad people like child molesters, and when they infringe on the…
Before we get started this week, I have an urgent piece of business. Everyone here who doesn’t work for AT&T,…
Now that we’re all taking a little rest from throwing money at each other by the fistful, is there the…
Who’s e-screwed in the Net gold rush?
Hanging out online for days at a time does funny things to a girl’s social skills. After another seven days…
The creator of Tetris opens Pandora’s Box.
Undone by the NeXT, saved by Pixar, Steve Jobs doesn’t want you reading this book.
If I could turn back time on a few life decisions, I would do just three things differently: one concert…
Gamers still holding out for a massive multiplayer version of The Lord of the Rings had fresh hope earlier this…
Just a month into the new year and already we, the true keepers of the Net flame (oh, come on,…
The Planet Project would like to teach the world to speak up.
Patty Griffin, “Cold as It Gets” (ATO; 2004). Arlo Guthrie, “Presidential Rag” (Rising Son; 1974). Marianne Faithfull, “Working Class Hero”…
