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Their names are legion
The Verisign-Network Solutions deal shows how the scramble for domain-name turf has gone from frenzy to insanity.
By Scott Rosenberg
[03/10/00]

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Maybe the Net doesn't change everything
In "The Social Life of Information," John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid send technology futurists back to reexamine their crystal ball.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
[03/09/00]

Heart in darkness
Blood-spattering violence is par for the course in the black-as-night world of the gamer-geeks building Daikatana -- but there are also moments of sweet comfort.
By David Kushner
[03/08/00]

How do game developers hack it?
All-nighters, 18-hour days, sleeping at the office -- John Romero's posse keeps up a "death schedule" to get Daikatana out of beta.
By David Kushner
[03/07/00]

Technology: View from the top
"Opt-in rules!"
How does 24/7 Media CEO David Moore target ads without raising the ire of privacy activists? He asks permission.
By Lydia Lee
[03/06/00]

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To know the human heart by stethoscope.
-- Thomas Jenkins

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My heart leaps up, my troubled ears are glad,
When I do thumb the key that mutes the ad.
-- John M. Ford

Soft, what ware chokes on cookies, spam and bots
To surf links 'cross reality ersatz.
-- Doug Muehlhauser

Couch potato, how did this come to pass?
My clicker thumb is fat as my ass.
-- Pedro F. Vazquez

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Since all printed magazines soon will be gone!
-- Anthony Dodd

Pez Dispens'd
What are thou, Pez, that must needs be dispensed?
T' be merely wrapped would leave thee so incensed?
T'were better still to leave the fingers sticky,
Than be vomited up by the likes of Mickey.
-- Mark Janello

The flat of chest augmented in a minute.
O Brave New World that has such implants in it!
-- Mark Janello

Mimetic warmth, (Platonic forms forfend!),
You burn, yet unconsumed, do never end!
Today, all Nature's blazes burn with shame --
To yield pride of place to Duraflame.
-- Thomas Jenkins

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