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O Canada (July 29, 2001)
Go Fourth (July 4, 2001)
The Ghost of Future Shoes (June 29, 2001)
80s Nostalgia (June 29, 2001)
The Man from IBM (June 15, 2001)
New Medical Conditions (June 4, 2001)
Dark Thoughts (June 11, 2001)
Red Wheelbarrow (May 18, 2001)
What Can I Do About Porn Spam? (May 5, 2001)
The Next Big Bastard (April 20, 2001)
My Little Town (April 13, 2001)
The Moment of Truth (April 6, 2001)
Panhandlers (March 30, 2001)
The Kournikova Virus (February 2, 2001)
Twenty Four Seven (February 1, 2001) (February 23, 2001)
Future Shoes Walking (February 2001) (February 9, 2001)
David & Goliath (January 26, 2001)
Up Burning (January 12, 2001)
The Other Side of the Tracks (January
When Worlds Collide (September 2001)
I'm from Missouri (Now) (August 2001)
The United States of Microsoft (July 2001)
Secure Premises (April 2001)
Twenty Four Seven (February 1, 2001)
Lost in Space
(March 2001)
A View from the Bluff
(January 2001)
The Other Side of the Tracks (January 2001)
The Trouble with Time (December 8, 2001)
The Other Side of the Tracks (December 1, 2000)
The Worst Technologies of the Last 1,000 Years (December 2000)
Cellar, Beware (December 2000)
More Zany Computer Humor (June 25, 2000)
Cynical Thoughts about the Microsoft Breakup (June 8, 2000)
Conversation with a Father (June 18, 2000)
The Electronic Candidate (June 11, 2000)
Bran Ferren's Story (May 20, 2000)
NOTE TO READERS (May 20, 2000)
Beyond Plasma (May 28, 2000)
I, Doctor Morbius (May 15, 2000)
The Napster Monster (May 1, 2000)
The Bat of Minerva (April 30, 2000)
Branded! (April 23, 2000)
The Sins of Microsoft (April 5, 2000)
Cisco in the Crisco (April 12, 2000)
Poetry, Incorporated (April 3, 2000)
Something Wicked This Way Converges (March 18, 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)
cipher, erase ... (Presidents Day 2000)
A Fresh Start (February 13, 2000)
My Life with Kathleen Soliah (January 23, 2000)
A Bonfire of Creative Destruction (January 9, 2000)
Dog Down the Well (January 5, 2000)
A Mitzvah for the future (December 26, 1999)
The Winter of Our Content (Dec. 12 1999)
Correspondence with an autoresponder (Dec. 5 1999)
"A Slice of Techie Pie" (Nov. 21, 1999)
Nothing but blue skies from now on (October 1999)
The Silken Thread (October 17, 1999)
The Extraterrestrial at Home (October 10, 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)
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)
Flowers in the Dirt
(July 18, 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)
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 Emperor's New Computer (March 27, 1999)
The Itinerary of the Internet Cat (March 21, 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)
I Met the Planet Finder (February 14, 1999)
The Dog Internet (December 21, 1998)
Rendering Unto Microsoft (February 7, 1999)
Between Economies: A Tale Most Micawber (January 31, 1999)
Ask Techno Answer Man! (January 24, 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)
Torn to Bits: A Fable for the Information Age (December 1998)
"The Techno Answer Man Says, Happy Computing!" (January 1999)
"The Man in the Plastic Garbage Can" (November 15, 1998)
"My Brush with Fame" (November 8, 1998)
Are We Getting Studiper? Devolution in Action (November 1998)
"The Dog of the Future" (October 25, 1998)
Computers and Prunes: A Cautionary Tale (September 1998) (DIVERSIONS column)
"Is Your Car TV-Ready?" (October 18, 1998)
Computers and Prunes: A Cautionary Tale (September 1998) (DIVERSIONS column, available for use in the month cited, and thereafter)
My 15 Minutes of Fame (September 1998) (DIVERSIONS column, available for use in the month cited, and thereafter)
Pretty Vacant (August 1998) (DIVERSIONS column, available for use in the month cited, and thereafter)
Hotrodding (July 1998) (DIVERSIONS column, available for use in the month cited, and thereafter)
"Everything I Know I Learned from My PC" (January 1998) (DIVERSIONS column, available for use in the month cited, and thereafter)
Spam Takes a Holiday (March 1998) (DIVERSIONS column, available for use in the month cited, and thereafter)
11 Worst Misfortunes to Befall a Road Warrior (January 1998) (full-length article)
"What Hath God Wrought? Telegraphy in the News!" (September 28, 1998)
"Mortality a Vexing Problem for Computer Buyers" (September 21, 1998)
"Warning Signs You May Be Going Overboard Online" (September 14, 1998)
"My Dinner with Daniele" (August 24, 1998)
"Huzzahs for the Digital Footsoldiers" (August 24, 1998)
"Microsoft Reeducation Camp" (August 17, 1998)
"Present Without Being Present" (August 10, 1998)
"A Banner Day for Tacky Advertising" (August 3, 1998)
"The Boys & Dads of Summer" (July 27, 1998)
"Who Put the 'Dull' in Adult?" (July 20, 1998)
"Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest" (July 13, 1998)
"Kill Your Computer, Then Everyone Else" (July 6, 1998)
"Merfuff: Portrait of a Cyberfriend" (June 21, 1998)
"When The Lights Go Out" (June 8, 1998)
"Dear Online Expert: Please Do My Homework" (May 25, 1998)
A Page for Doctor Kharbanda" (April 27, 1998)
"Yoohoo -- Is Anybody There?" (March 30, 1998)
"My Mom's Computer" (March 23, 1998)
"Does Your Home Need a Cleanroom?" (March 16, 1998)
"The Spook in the Machine" (March 9, 1998)
"The Spook in the Machine" (March 9, 1998)
"Microsoft Is the Borg: Prepare to Be Assimilated" (March 2, 1998)
A listmaker’s dream (Feb. 23, 1998)
Is Matt Drudge the New Tom Paine? (Feb. 2, 1998)
How I Lost My Guru Status (Jan. 19, 1998)
Beyond the Paperless Office (Jan. 7, 1998)
The Millennium Fiasco ... a Y2K scenario (Jan. 1, 1998)
Web Site Promotion (Dec. 29, 1997)
Spam That Kills (Dec. 22, 1997)
The Eyes Are The First Things to Go (Dec. 16, 1997)
*A Boy and His Video Card (Dec. 9, 1997)
Season's Greetings from the Space Station Mir (Dec. 2, 1997)
Thurston Throckmorton, Telecommuting Needs You! (For release Nov. 10, 1997)
"Frontline Coverage of the Bookstore Wars" (10/20/97)
New Labor Day Archetypes (9/1/97)
Web Side Story (8/18/97)
Techno head scratchers (8/11/97)
Questions for the Queen (8/4/97)
New techno trend: big guys beating on little guys (7/28/97)
The look on Larry's face said it all ... (7/21/97)
Blessed be the wires that connect ... (7/14/97)
Let "Bless This Mess" be Your Code of Honor (7/7/97)
The thing that lives under the bridge (6/30/97)
Return with Us Now to the Re-Wired City (6/23/97)
Thoughts on Memorial Day, freedom, and the nets (5/26/97)
Beware a program called Restore (5/12/97)
A web page for the RiverDogs (5/5/97)
Wrist in peace: the case for ditching your mouse (4/7/97)
OSP does not stand for Orangoutang Silly Putty (4/7/97)
The end of journalism as we know it (4/1/97)
Something New: the Thrill of the New Computer Smell (3/24/97)
Put a subliminal Tiger in your tank (3/17/97)
Youthful Optimism Is Dented by a Bruised Laptop (3/10/97)
Fashion and technology meet in the land of pen and ink (2/23/97)
Ten Things I Know for Sure (I Think) (3/3/97)
Where home office dogs come from (2/17/97)
Thoughts from a hospital waiting room
My annual Techno New Year's resolutions
The terrible error of our time
My experience on the red-eye to Las Vegas
Bringing my brothers to the Net
Techie pie, a Thanksgiving tradition
Enlightment in the superstore tech support queue
Sherry Turkle: Finding our selves on the Web
Cybersmut and alien election tampering
The world's first fully Internet-worthy RV
Time to update your tech jargon handbook
Who knows where the time goes? I do.
Mark Twain in the 21st century
Searching for an outlet in the wilderness
The Unabomber is really no worse than Mork from Ork.
What will become of our dear mother tongue?
What would your role in a medieval kingdom have been?
Frolicking with a laptop on Mt. Rainier
There's really no reason to ever leave home again.
Reflections on the conclusion of highway construction season
Look yourself up on a Web search engine, see who you find.
The world's stupidest techno terrorist
The READ.ME file to end all READ.ME files
Cheers for the passing of three Citadels
Should software come with health warnings?
The abominable Doctor Goldfine
Injuries sustained in the service of technology
Am I crazy, or is it getting awful hot in here?
Why computers have no sense of humor
Who knows where the time goes?
Old Mother Hubbard went to the keyboard ...
I go the lavatory to the sound of Muzak
Don't forget to take your PC with you to the cabin up north
Don Tapscott, "The Digital Economy"
Nicholas Negroponte, "Being Digital"
Sherry Turkle, "Behind the Screen"