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Imelda's Closet (August 2000)

Folk Strategy (August 2, 2000)

Lake Street USA (July 23, 2000)

The Killer Shrew (July 31, 2000)

Review: Lawrence Sutin's A Postcard Memoir (July 23, 2000)

Thanks, Everybody! (July 13, 2000)

The Laptop That Thought It Was a Cat (July 2000) embargoed until August 1

Sheep Dip (July 22, 2000)

Greatfull for the Worm (July 12, 2000)

The Woolly Mammoth (July 11, 2000)

REVIEW: Rich Broderick: Woman Lake (July 6, 2000)

REVIEW: Charles Potts: Nature Lovers (July 3, 2000)

King of the Techno Hill (July 2, 2000)

A Big Fat Hen (July 2, 2000)

Stop Being English! (July 4, 2000)

Jungle Larry & B'wana Mike (July 9, 2000)

Apocryphal Business Fables (July 2, 2000)

Silverbacks (July 4, 2000)

More Zany Computer Humor (June 25, 2000)

Cynical Thoughts about the Microsoft Breakup (June 8, 2000)

"The Amoeba Organization" (June 25, 2000)

"Appreciate the Barnacle" (June 18, 2000)

Conversation with a Father (June 18, 2000)

The Electronic Candidate (June 11, 2000)

Bran Ferren's Story (May 20, 2000)

Memorial Day 2000 (May 20, 2000)

NOTE TO READERS (May 20, 2000)

The Thing Inside Your Head (May 2000)

Beyond Plasma (May 28, 2000)

Seminary Days (May 2000)

Invoking the Manson Clause (May 2000)

Years of Nerve (May 2000)

My Literary Feud (May 2000)

Desire of the Everlasting Hills (May 22, 2000)

I, Doctor Morbius (May 15, 2000)

The Napster Monster (May 1, 2000)

Bill Buckley We Miss You (April 30, 2000)

The Bat of Minerva (April 30, 2000)

Branded! (April 23, 2000)

Inside the Canine Head (April 7, 2000)

The Michael Finley Worry Index (April 7, 2000)

The Sins of Microsoft (April 5, 2000)

Cisco in the Crisco (April 12, 2000)

The skin over a young girl's wrist (April 3, 2000)

Poetry, Incorporated (April 3, 2000)

I Will Fool No More Forever (April 2000)

Why We Are Black (March 25, 2000)

Something Wicked This Way Converges (March 18, 2000)

Bees in the Head (April 16, 2000)

A Fistful of Dog Food (March 2000)

Report from the Death March (April 2, 2000)

Night Shift at the GOP Phone Bank (March 26, 2000)

My Computer, My Friend (March 3, 2000)

"Dotcom at the Dogyard" (March 20, 2000)

"Lessons from The Mikado" (March 12, 2000)

"Borrowing from Pat to Pay Paul" (March 17, 2000)

"Last one in is a rotten egg" (February 27, 2000)

cipher, erase ... (Presidents Day 2000)

Waiting for South Carolina (February 8, 2000)

In Spite of the Amputations (February 6, 2000)

Shakespeare in Love (February 14, 2000)

The Ice Father (February 14, 2000)

A Fresh Start (February 13, 2000)

Stand Up for James Brown, Y'all (February 6, 2000)

How I Became Scots-Irish (January 30, 2000)

My Life with Kathleen Soliah (January 23, 2000)

A Bonfire of Creative Destruction (January 9, 2000)

Dog Down the Well (January 5, 2000)

Cold Wind, Mad Dog (January 3, 2000)


1999

A Mitzvah for the future (December 26, 1999)

A Burlington Coat Factory Christmas (Dec. 25 1999)

The Winter of Our Content (Dec. 12 1999)

Correspondence with an autoresponder (Dec. 5 1999)

"Democratic Erections" (Nov. 28, 1999)

"A Slice of Techie Pie" (Nov. 21, 1999)

"The Wake of the Blue Poodle" (Nov. 14, 1999)

"Ethics Scandal Jolts School Board Campaign" (Nov. 1, 1999)

"To whom it may concern..." (October 31, 1999)

Nothing but blue skies from now on (October 1999)

The Hills Have Eyes (October 24, 1999)

The Silken Thread (October 17, 1999)

The Extraterrestrial at Home (October 10, 1999)

Mighty Joe Young Is Missing! (October 3, 1999)

Welcome to Toner Country, USA (September 26, 1999)

Big Information vs. the Giant Dirtball (September 19, 1999)

Computers and the Holocaust (September 12, 1997)

Labor Day Archetypes (September 5, 1997)

A Camera in My Head (August 29, 1999)

A few helpful pointers in Technetiquette (August 22, 1997)

Twain Compliant (August 15, 1999)

Of Politics, Processors, and Poetry (August 8, 1999)

Deadbeats on Parade (August 1, 1999)

Once More for Spider John (July 25, 1999)

Flowers in the Dirt (July 18, 1999)

The Book I Meant to Write (July 13, 1999)

An Electric Car in Your Garage?(July 11, 1999)

Suffering Succotash (July 10, 1999)

Born on the 4th of July(July 4, 1999)

Slammed!(June 27, 1999)

The Old Scout and the Three Strikes of Life(June 20, 1999)

The Ultimate Technology (June 20, 1999)

You May Already Be a Luddite (June 11, 1999)

The Lure of the Merchant Credit Card(June 7, 1999)

The Conversation(June 2, 1999)

Internet Bottom Feeders (June 2, 1999)

2029: A Space Anniversary (May 30, 1999)

Me and My Jornada (May 23, 1999)

Go Telnet on the Mountain: Folk Song vs Biztech (May 16, 1999)

The Etiquette of Messing with Someone Else's Computer (January 16, 1994)

The READ.ME File You Wish You Never Read (December 25, 1995)

The Greatest Arcade Hero of Them All (May 9, 1999)

Yugoslavia: You've Got Mail (May 2, 1999)

Fixing Hamlet (April 1999)

A Question for the Animal Liberation Front (April 1999)

I Just Want to Do My Jig Saw Puzzle (April 18, 1999)

Your Live Eye at Spring COMDEX (April 11, 1999)

Easter Eggs and Brain Tumors (April 4, 1999)

The Emperor's New Computer (March 27, 1999)

The Itinerary of the Internet Cat (March 21, 1999)

What Can a White Man Do? (March 14, 1999)

The Big Cry (March 11, 1999)

I Have Seen the Future and It Is Old (March 7, 1999)

The Age of Sensors (February 28, 1999)

The Devil's Computer (February 21, 1999)

All Valentines Eve (February 13, 1999)

I Met the Planet Finder (February 14, 1999)

The Machines (February 14, 1999)

The Dog Internet (December 21, 1998)

Rendering Unto Microsoft (February 7, 1999)

Between Economies: A Tale Most Micawber (January 31, 1999)

In Praise of Shamelessness (January 27, 1999)

Ask Techno Answer Man! (January 24, 1999)

Impeachment Blues (January 14, 1999)

The Clever and the Good (January 15, 1999)

What the heck Are Future Shoes? (January 17, 1999)

Neil Young Bites the Dust (January 10, 1999)

The Sound and the Flurry (January 3, 1999)

New Years Resolutions, 1999 (January 1, 1999)



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