Surf these sites: A Home in Cyberspace -- As frequent relocation becomes a fact of life in the new economy, a reflection on the consolations of online neighborhoods. [Wired News] A Netizen''s Swan Song -- Jon Katz bids HotWired farewell -- praising freedom, interactivity, and his fellow geeks. [Wired News] A Restricted Revolution? -- The Net''s big moral issue isn''t porn, says Katz -- it''s the black/white access gap. [Wired News] Absinthe Devotees: The Green Fog -- While revivalists of the outlawed liquor take their inspiration from 19th century artistic ne''er do-wells, they gather their resources on the Web. [Wired News] An Online Moral Dilemma -- Should online support groups enjoy the sanctity of the confessional booth? Readers give Jon Katz an earful. [Wired News] Another Woman, Another Book -- Sign Off is having an afterlife that''s far more interesting than its life ever was. [Wired News] Art Imitates Life -- Primary Colors isn''t about sex, says Katz, but idealism - and how DC politics kills it. [Wired News] Believe It or Not -- People who believe that information is corrupt turn out to be about half-right; the corruption is real, but it''s a little closer to home than we might wish to understand. [Wired News] Bolts of Volts -- Most people have seen Tesla coils -- two poles with a bolt of electricity crackling up the space between them -- in science fiction films. Coilers are the dedicated tinkerers that build their own. [Wired News] Bondage -- Moguls are now discussing the possibility of Bond taking a page out of the heralded Alien series and treating each film as an opportunity for an auteur to make his mark. [Wired News] Can You Name the Real Scandal? -- Starting with a bang, Brill''s Content hits the corrupt media right between the eyes. [Wired News] Cheap Flights to the Future -- A startup''s patent may transform the balance of power between vendors and consumers, says Katz. [Wired News] Cooking Up Media Madness -- DC press and the libidinous president, plus sleazy politicians: A pretty smelly brew, says Katz. But there is an antidote. [Wired News] DIY Veggie Libel -- After considering how to support Oprah in her mad-cow fight for free speech, Jon Katz scapegoats the innocent yam. [Wired News] Defining Geekdom, Part I -- Brainy, grumpy, wary, obsessive: Jon Katz recounts the rise of the geek. [Wired News] Defining Geekdom, Part II -- Modern-day geeks share two obsessions, says Katz: new tech and pop culture. [Wired News] Defining Geekdom, Part III -- As geeks and suits vie for world domination, Katz''s money''s on the geeks. [Wired News] Electric Hotrods -- AC or DC, these car enthusiasts believe that their vehicles are the way of the future. [Wired News] Freedom from the Press -- The press will pay a price for shoving the Lewinsky tale down our throats, says Katz. [Wired News] Fun with Dead People -- All sorts of businesses - from mainstream mags to the pushers of kitsch commemoratives - rake in the bucks when celebrities die. Alongside the memory-mongers, though, a blackly humorous subculture thrives: Dead pools. [Wired News] Human Guinea Pigs -- Now that a network of zine readers is trading advice and swapping stories, probed persons no longer have to take it on faith that research facilities are respectable and comfortable. [Wired News] Hyping Private Ryan -- The marketing push for Spielberg''s latest rivals the D-Day invasion, says Katz. [Wired News] If I Only Had A Brain -- Natrificial''s The Brain is not just a US$49.95 bookmark manager, it''s also a case study in choosing the right metaphor. [Wired News] Introducing Geek Screens -- Is pop culture political? Katz''s broader beat includes all geek media, "serious" or not. [Wired News] It''s a Drudge World, After All -- Matt Drudge was the first to make public the Monica Lewinsky case. So what? It turns out he is the embodiment of a frantic, redundantly networked world in which everyone knows everything at once - even things that aren''t true. [Wired News] Jerry''s Kids -- His TV show is vile, offensive, and stupid, says Katz, but America -- and its children -- will survive Jerry Springer. [Wired News] Let''s Go Thrifting -- In this installment of Fringe, we examine the people who''ve perfected the art of "buying for the experience of buying" for pennies on the dollar. [Wired News] Light Fuse and Get Away -- Fringe shines a light on the fiery passions of pyrotechnics. [Wired News] Loving Greta -- Katz confesses his love for the rarest of the rare -- an ethical lawyer. [Wired News] Media Rant Movie Marathon, Part I -- Jefferson may not have found himself surprised at a culture that yawns at news of an imminently balanced budget but knows exactly when Titanic and Wag the Dog are premiering. [Wired News] Meet HAL''s Ancestors -- Can computers think? Frauenfelder probes deep into the culture of artificial-intelligence programming -- from chatterbots to the Turing Test. [Wired News] Our Contentious Country -- Argument Culture aptly describes our obsession with confrontation, says Jon Katz. [Wired News] Our Contentious Country, Part II -- ABC may have an antidote to the "argument culture" poisoning the media, says Jon Katz. [Wired News] Past Out -- The high cost of reliving the news. [Wired News] Reconsidering Ryan -- Flamed by warriors and peaceniks alike, Katz reconsiders Saving Private Ryan. [Wired News] Religion and the Digital Age -- It''s time to stop treating religion with kid gloves, a graciously unsubmissive Katz insists. [Wired News] Right to Kill -- Ted Kaczynski''s command performance. [Wired News] Robots from Rubbish -- BEAMers create small autonomous robots which rely on discarded analog materials instead of expensive, power-hungry computer brains. The lean machines can display surprisingly smart behavior - and killer survival instincts. [Wired News] See Ally Flail -- Insecure, narcissistic, boy-crazy Ally McBeal is a post-feminist icon, says Jon Katz. [Wired News] Shameless Dread -- Kicking and Screaming into the millennium. [Wired News] Slate''s Ready to Charge -- Slate''s getting ready to charge, and Jon Katz says webheads ought to be ready to pay for good media by now. [Wired News] Soul Salvation -- In a fantasy Meet the Press, Jon Katz asks Washington attack journalists what is going through their sex-scandal-addled brains. [Wired News] Stone-Age Hardware Hackers -- Enthusiasts preserve traditional technology, using tools made of rock and bone. Cutting-edge materials, 2.5 million years ago. [Wired News] Technorealism: Beyond the Hype -- A more realistic appraisal of the technology that fills our lives will open a fertile middle ground between techno-utopianism and neo-Luddism. [Wired News] The Anti-Seinfeld -- Skewering the cult of celebrity, Garry Shandling created TV''s best show, says Katz. [Wired News] The Death of the Media Mogul -- Buh-bye, Rupert! So long, Bill. Jon Katz says media moguls'' time has come and gone. The future is ours, not theirs. [Wired News] The End of the Beginning -- As the two halves of Wired Ventures part company, a reflection on three years of Wired Web culture. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News] The Issues Behind Intern-Gate -- Did readers criticize Jon Katz''s dismissal of the Lewinsky scandal as irrelevant? You bet your internship application. [Wired News] The Merchants of Anxiety -- New software that watches your kids'' every move on the Net may seem like the answer to a world that threatens to spin out of control. But have we forgotten the questions that matter? By Steve Silberman. [Wired News] The Near-Space Race -- Mail-order model rocketry, once popular among suburban teens, is not just for youngsters anymore. The kids have grown up -- and so have the rockets. By Mark Frauenfelder. [Wired News] The Net vs. the Presidency -- When the Internet and other forces have stripped the public figure''s aura of authority, can we find something worthy of saving in our Presidents? [Wired News] The Nth Degree -- The worst word of an era [Wired News] The Plastic Fantastics -- Aficionados of 1960s design aren''t the hippies you might think. These fans are straight-up students of the era who are serious collectors, to boot. [Wired News] The Right Presidential Speech -- What if Clinton just told the truth? Katz unreels his fantasy transcript. [Wired News] The Tragedy in Technology -- Jon Katz casts technology as a tragic figure - meaning well, but doomed to do evil. [Wired News] The X-Files -- Turning lust to UST, The X-Files brings a great love story to the big screen, says Katz. [Wired News] Tina, Queen of Hype -- Air-kissing hype aside, Tina Brown''s record at The New Yorker gives Katz pause. [Wired News] Trust and Antitrust -- When both Microsoft and DOJ invoke your interests, be very afraid, counsels Katz. [Wired News] US-centrism on the Net -- With the US soon to be an online minority, will we stop trying to dictate to the Net? [Wired News] Virtual Faith -- Gen-X irreverence may be a tonic for established religion, reports Katz. [Wired News] Virtual Sadism -- The world of norns gets creepier with the appearance of a torturer in the breeding community. [Wired News] Way-New Technopomposity -- The sensible, self-important technorealist manifesto tells Jon Katz the Net menace is losing its sting. [Wired News] What Makes Kids Kill? -- Blaming TV violence for schoolyard slaughter makes sense, says Katz -- to the gun lobby. [Wired News] Who''s in Charge Around Here? -- If the Net had its own president, we''d have a real voice - and maybe get something done once in a while. [Wired News] Who''s in Charge Around Here? Part II -- Should the president of the Net be digerati, geek author, statesperson, or - you? [Wired News]
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