Boo hoo! By Lydia Lee
Over-the-top design and a burn rate of $120 million in six months force the achingly hip fashion retail site to give up the ghost. (05/18/00)

How does your Garden.com grow? By Deborah Claymon
For a Net start-up trying to seed the world with its brand, it grows with a different business card for every season and a Chia Pet-inspired billboard. (05/18/00)

Napster fans to Metallica: Prove it! By Janelle Brown
30,000 users of the MP3 trading service claim the band misidentified them. (05/17/00)

Will you tell me a story -- please? By Wagner James Au
There are plenty of games at E3, but nothing promises genuine innovation or a compelling narrative. (05/16/00)

And justice for all By David Cassel
Metallica's pursuit of Napster inspires protests and parodies across the Web. (05/15/00)

The E3 explosion By Moira Muldoon
Advance announcements for hundreds of games showing this week in L.A. make journalists feel like the giant gaming expo is overloading their senses. (05/12/00)

Embrace, extend, censor By Andrew Leonard
Microsoft asks Slashdot to remove posts revealing copyrighted information. (05/11/2000)

Ask.com goes bananas By Janelle Brown
Dot-com ads now blanket not just the bulging Net business magazines, billboards and TV -- but our very own fruit bowls. (05/10/00)

Failing is fun! By Andy Dehnart
Did your start-up go bankrupt? Are you out of a job? A new Web site will help you network with other dot-com failures. (05/09/00)

Squash that bug! By Janelle Brown and Katharine Mieszkowski
The media catches the "love bug," and starts replicating stories like a virus gone mad. (05/06/00)

Love bites By Scott Rosenberg
The most insidious thing about the latest e-mail virus is how it preys on users' hunger for affection. (05/05/00)

Nude models press the flesh By Ron Hogan
At WebModel 2000, a convention for online strippers, you too can meet the booth bunny of your dreams. (05/05/00)

Love bites By Scott Rosenberg
The most insidious thing about the latest e-mail virus is how it preys on users' hunger for affection. (05/04/00)

Silicon Valley's pinup boys By Katharine Mieszkowski
Venture capitalists and start-up founders slip into something comfortable for GQ. (05/03/00)

Wazzup Elián? By David Cassell
An AP exec gets a lesson in Net-age protesting and backs down on threats against makers of an Eli‡n parody, which contained photos from the Miami raid and voices from a Budweiser ad. (04/29/00)

Microsplit By Katharine Mieszkowski
Justice outlines its plan for two post-Microsoft companies: Office with no Windows, Windows with no Office -- and only one of them gets Gates. (04/29/00)

Is Net porn ruining your sex life? By Stacie Stukin
Larry Flynt, Rabbi Schmuley Boteach and Roseanne debate "F'ing and loving." (04/27/00)

Open-source bloatware By Andrew Leonard
The free-software world's version of Microsoft's paper clip describes itself the best: "An inspiring example of form following function -- to Hell." (04/25/00)

Listmania By Damien Cave
Everybody in the tech world has a list to share these days -- so why are they all the same? (04/25/00)

Money for nothing By Janelle Brown
Paul Allen spent $100 million on Interval Research. Now there's nothing left to say about the company that no one could say anything about. (04/22/00)

Napster backlash By Eric Boehlert
A once outspoken supporter of the controversial music-swapping software switches his allegiance, as musicians strike back at Napster. (04/19/00)

"Don't link to hate sites!" By Donna Ladd
Film critic Roger Ebert takes on Hatewatch founder David Goldman over the practice of cataloging the Web pages of bigots. (04/14/00)

Rage for the machine By Damien Cave
Techno group Mobius Dick take on Bill Joy and his apocalyptic view of technology's future in a new tune on MP3.com. (04/12/00)

Clueless in Gotham By Damien Cave
Where did the New York media dig up that Silicon Valley gold-digger story? (04/11/00)

A vote for Bill is a vote for more (dollar) bills By Lydia Lee
Microsoft is on the campaign trail, hustling for a better public opinion. (04/10/00)

Creepy-crawly Web things By Katharine Mieszkowski
A British design shop unleashes another utterly engrossing way to while away hours at your computer when you should be working. (04/07/00)

Can hyperlinks be outlawed? By Damien Cave
Movie studios aim to criminalize links to DeCSS, a banned DVD-decryption program. (04/06/00)

The HampsterDance comeback By David Cassel
The dancing hamsters that took the Net by storm are back, and gunning for a career as rappers. (04/01/00)

Candidate Clinton comes to Silicon Valley By Katharine Mieszkoski
Hillary cuts the "virtual ribbon" on a new Web company and shakes down dot-com millionaires for their support. (03/30/2000)

"It's not broken but we're fixing it" By Damien Cave
The patent office reveals its new plan for examining "business method" patents, and, no, it says, it's not responding to industry pressure. (03/30/00)

What'n the heck is MobShop? By Katharine Mieszkowski
People were making fun of the name of Accompany, so the group-discount shopping site changed it to, um, well ... (03/29/00)

A Heartwarming Tale of Staggering Generosity By Janelle Brown
Things were looking bleak for McSweeneys.net, until the McSweeneys of Massachusetts jumped in to save the Net zine. (03/28/00)

Even "MacGyver" is no match for an AOL security breach By David Cassel
A computer security consultant loses his Instant Messenger account to a hacker, who finds the screen name too good to give up. (03/27/00)

Geeks to the rescue! By Katharine Mieszkowski
Three programmers try to spark a grass-roots movement on the Net to save global satellite network Iridium from a fiery death in space. (03/24/00)

You've got marketing! By Katharine Mieszkowski
For all you Net junkies not sure how to get there, a new free keyboard offers push-button access to AOL. (03/24/00)

"AllThePornYouCanEat.Com" By Kaitlin Quistgaard
The increasingly humorless dot-com industry inspires a DIY revolution -- and lots of witty domain names. (03/23/00)

Harper's bizarre By Janelle Brown
Where are the pizza boxes and polo shirts? A fashion mag shoots Silicon Valley and finds Prada in the cubes. (03/22/00)

Don't shoot that iMac! By Lydia Lee
Online reviewers convince Epinions not to run a TV ad featuring a Mac being blown to smithereens by a PC lover. (03/20/00)

Greyscale paradise By Janelle Brown
At Soulbath, a British design firm creates an ASCII wonderland. (03/17/00)

Did AOL eat Gnutella for lunch? By Janelle Brown
Nullsoft's engineers released a Napster clone without America Online's permission. The media got a peek and then the site was gone. (03/16/00)

The crime scene By Jenn Shreve
What good is a site that lets Oakland, Calif., residents check on neighborhood crime stats if the people in those neighborhoods aren't online? (03/15/00)

Thoroughly modern eMillie By Penny Perkins
In the land of e-everything, parents practice the e-naming of Gen E babies: eLiza, eThan -- anything with an e-prefix. (03/13/00)

Dungeons & Dragons to go open source? By Andrew Leonard
A gaming executive ponders an "open gaming license" for the role-playing game genre. (03/11/00)

Tim & Jeff's excellent patent show By Damien Cave
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, after a discussion with publisher Tim O'Reilly, calls for patent reform -- while clinging to those his company has. (03/10/00)

Debut of a sexy new plaything By Moira Muldoon
Sony's PlayStation2 is a hot seller at its Japan launch, but how will it stack up against Sega's Dreamcast? (03/09/00)

Music to Napster fans' ears By Janelle Brown
A bandwidth management tool may help lift a ban on MP3-sharing software imposed by colleges across the country. (03/08/00)

Is VeriSign a network solution? By Damien Cave
Will the security specialist succeed in providing soup-to-nuts services for Web sites? (03/08/00)

Who wants to be the sexiest geek alive? By Katharine Mieszkowski
Instead of cheesecake poses, techies on parade answer questions like "What's a meta tag?" in a geek pageant that the media is eating up. (03/07/00)

Can't take a joke? By Damien Cave
Web game site purveyor John Zuccarini declared war on a site depicting animal mutilation -- in cartoons. But is pet protection his real motivation? (03/06/00)

Death of a David.com By Scott Rosenberg
Even free publicity in the New York Times, which portrayed a tiny Amazon.com competitor busily "Killing Goliath.com," couldn't save bookseller Positively-You.com. (03/03/00)

Who decides who's who in Silicon Alley? By Janelle Brown
Jason Calacanis creates an annual "it" list of New York new media -- but not everyone is intrigued by the eclectic digerati he sprinkles in among the CEOs. (03/03/00)

Big Bouncer is watching you By Lydia Lee
Biometric smart-card scanners are keeping undesirable elements out of Dutch clubs. (03/02/00)

StopDrLaura.com By Donna Ladd
Gay activists go after Paramount, demanding that it cancel plans for a TV show starring the talk-radio moralist. (03/01/00)

A bad bet By Janelle Brown
Jay Cohen was too smart to set up his online gambling business in the United States, but that didn't keep the feds from nailing him. (02/29/00)

Show and tell By Janelle Brown
A filmmaker relives the hysterics of high school in a serialized short film she's screening online. (02/25/00)

Palm reading By Damien Cave
Though e-book sales have been sluggish, Microsoft says in 10 years they'll challenge the paper kind. (02/24/00)

Playboy gets a Rouze By Janelle Brown
Playboy.com plucks a new CEO from Disney's Go Network and snaps up the men's portal site Rouze.com. (02/23/00)

DeCSS decoy By Damien Cave
A free-software fanatic unleashes a "useless" program to foil investigators looking for the DeCSS DVD decryption code. (02/22/00)

A "Peanuts" virtual quilt By David Cassel
Internet cartoonists stitch together a Schulz memorial "quilt" (02/18/00)

Next generation iCraveTV? By Damien Cave
Canadian comedians post iCraveiCraveTV to re-re-broadcast the TV shows iCraveTV intercepts and streams online. (02/17/00)

How much for that doggie in the dot-com ad? By Lydia Lee
Pets.com auctions off its mascot, a singing sock puppet-pooch, raising some serious cash for charity. (02/14/00)

The Web whodunit By Salon Technology Staff
No one knows who's behind the wave of attacks on big sites -- but everyone's got a theory. (02/10/00)

You, too, can be a drug kingpin By Damien Cave
The Dope Wars drug-running game strikes a nerve among the "buy low, sell high" crowd. (02/09/00)

MP3.com bites back By Janelle Brown
A lawsuit asks if the litigious Recording Industry Association of America is sabotaging MP3.com's business. (02/09/00)

The force of "G" By Janelle Brown
Filmmaker Rolf Gibbs smashed more than a few camcorders while making a film that replicates a 30,000-foot free-fall. (02/08/00)

Site for gays in the military hits the auction block By Damien Cave
Will the identity of Homobase.com, an online community for gay servicemen and women, be threatened by the highest bidder? (02/07/00)

Texas' death-row peep show By Donna Ladd
The state doesn't just hold a record for executions -- it proudly posts online the macabre details of hundreds of convicts' last suppers and final words. (02/04/00)

The shape of open source to come By Andrew Leonard
VA Linux purchases Andover.net, corporate parent to Slashdot. Will the "news for nerds" site maintain its editorial independence? (02/04/00)

This e-mail brought to you by ... a bad idea By Janelle Brown
Epidemic.com, which compensates people for spamming their friends, is making me ill. (02/03/00)

The shape of open source to come By Andrew Leonard
VA Linux purchases Andover.net, corporate parent to Slashdot. Will the "news for nerds" site maintain its editorial independence? (02/03/2000)

Technology Log: Stop the "personal" spam By Geoff Edgers
As online journalism erodes the long-standing wall between editors and business folks, my in box is filling with faux friendly e-mail. (02/02/00)

Technology Log: Goodbye battery, hello fuel cell By Spencer Reiss
As a small pack of battery-powered cars is put to sleep, new fuel cells make possible zero-emissions vehicles that really do hum. (01/31/00)

Technology Log: Post non-traumatic stress syndrome? By Jenn Shreve
A "technotherapist" begins a Y2K recovery group, for those suffering the loss of millennial doom. (01/28/00)

Technology Log: Got God? By Damien Cave
Two religion start-ups vie to be the "AOL of the soul," and profit from the holy trinity of content, community and commerce. (01/27/00)

Technology Log: The Dotcominator By Lydia Lee
If you're going to dot-com yourself, Sun wants to help -- that's just what its new ads are trying to say. (01/26/00)

Technology Log: You've got accounts! By David Cassel
Pranksters exploit a big back door in AOL's Instant Messenger service. (01/25/00)

Technology Log: The Yahoo technology talk show? By Damien Cave
The company is tight-lipped, but several help-wanted ads reveal that Yahoo is gearing up to produce live webcasts. (01/24/00)

Technology Log: E-book makers sold to a TV-centric company By Lydia Lee
What will Gemstar International, a maker of VCR programming technology, do with SoftBook and NuvoMedia? (01/20/00)

Technology Log: Valley of the dolls By Janelle Brown
Who are the tech industry's most eligible bachelors -- and do they really wear pocket protectors? (01/20/00)

Technology Log: "Steve Case Lost His Cyber Parking Space" By David Cassel
An MP3 fan grabs the stephencase.com URL and slaps up a ballad about the AOL chief. (01/19/00)

Technology Log: Scoop: Why Bill Gates stepped down By the Salon Technology staff
Ten reasons why the Microsoft founder is handing off the CEO torch. (01/14/00)

Technology Log: A no-crash guarantee By Donna Ladd
TheGreatCrash.com promises a chance to invest in a Black Tuesday-proof instrument. Hint: It's wearable. (01/12/00)

Technology Log: Groove Radio gets its groove back By Janelle Brown
The all-electronica Los Angeles radio station that went off the air three years ago is back -- online. (01/12/00)

Technology Log: No cooks in the kitchen By Lydia Lee
CookExpress looks for funding after its gourmet meal delivery service grinds to a halt. (01/10/00)

Technology Log: Disaster perverted! By David Cassel
If you're disappointed that Y2K wasn't ushered in with calamity, take heart: Spoof sites revel in the year 1900. (01/08/00)

Technology Log: An end to the Apple turnover? By Lydia Lee
Steve Jobs resigns himself to the inevitable -- and embraces the CEO title. (01/06/00)

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