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Letter perfect
Just a month into the new year and already we, the true keepers of the Net flame (oh,…
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Falling Down
Patty Griffin, “Cold as It Gets” (ATO; 2004). Arlo Guthrie, “Presidential Rag” (Rising Son; 1974). Marianne Faithfull, “Working…
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Hold the Fry’s?
As we stand here together this week in our Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/ Solstice festive finery, on the brink of a…
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Reconnecting Kosovo
A small high-tech group fights to restore the erased identities of displaced Kosovars.
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Seeds of tragedy
My dad sold seed corn. He was an amazing salesman and selling seed was his perfect job: He…
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Before your eyes
I’ll bet you’re wondering why I haven’t smacked Amazon around lately. I’ll bet you think I’m getting slack.…
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In the realm of the sense
Rather than humans adapting to virtual reality, computer interfaces are adapting to ours.
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Scaring me
Trip back with me for a moment, dear reader, to a simpler time—a time of magazines such as…
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Usenet or lose it
The Amazon flack designated to handle the recent Scientology dustup sounded terribly tired by the end of last…
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Multics and Mr. Rogers
Because nothing in this world lives or dies alone and because the obsessive dot-com deathwatch in the news…
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The net: A hell without hugs?
Not a season goes by without some study claiming the Net makes people weird. This time the honors…
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Meet your representative
An interview with Karl Auerbach, ICANN at-large representative for the United States and Canada. Mr. Aeurbach was elected…
