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GOTO considered joyful
Rachel Chalmers
On his proto-blog archive, the words and spirit of the late computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra live on, inspiring new generations of geeks.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
What would happen if you handed all the legends of the airline industry a cocktail and stuffed them into one hotel room? Also: Are regional jets unsafe?
How do you compete with a man named Enrique?
Salon Staff
I could play Radiohead on the guitar. He spoke fluent Spanish. Guess who got the girl.
The “Sex Woman”
David Bowman
Erica Jong talks about being married to a schizophrenic, the invention of naked women, Henry Miller's erotic fantasies, what's wrong with Bush and -- of course -- the zipless you-know-what.
Bend it like Robo-Beckham
Lee Gutkind
Roboticists want to field a team of automatons in the 2050 World Cup that can win it all. Are they nuts? Or is this how progress is made?
“We don’t need a second Republican Party”
Michelle Goldberg
Kerry and Dean rouse the Democratic Party's left wing at a "Take Back America" conference -- but Kucinich's Bush roasting gets the biggest cheers.
The man who saw God’s plan
Farhad Manjoo
In his fascinating biography of the strange, secretive Isaac Newton, author James Gleick attempts to understand the father of physics' genius -- and comes up with a mystery.
Former FCC chairman: Deregulation is a right-wing power grab
Eric Boehlert
Reed Hundt says Monday's historic vote was "the culmination of the attack by the right on the media."
Homecoming from hell — with handcuffs
Salon Staff
It was 1979. I was a long-haired Robert Plant wannabe; she was a wrong-side-of-the-tracks brunette with hippie sensibilities. All I wanted to do was score.
Catwoman reloaded
Charles Taylor
A new comic scrapbook shows why the feline in the shiny black bodysuit has the power to undo even the most rock-jawed superstuds.
Havana honey, Part 2
Alysia Vilar
He loves Cuban communism, and every part of my body, which he surveys with his tape measure. But Terence will soon be back in Canada, after one final bout in his humid hotel room.
Loud hogs for easy riders
Michelle Delio
Harley-Davidson's new motorcycles are built to meet noise and pollution standards. But bikers say they miss "the sound of rebellion."
Benny Elon’s long, strange trip
Claire Tristram
Israel's radical-right tourism minister, who wants Palestinians transferred to Jordan, came to Washington to huddle with his best American friends -- not Jews, but the Christian right.
The Penis Papers
Terence Clarke
Men talk intimately, humorously and with great honesty about their most private part.
The world press on postwar Iraq
Compiled by Laura McClure
Saddam's last man in Tikrit talks to the German press about losing the war. Plus commentary from Japan, Canada, Egypt, Hong Kong and the U.K.
I survived the terror of New York’s kitty gatekeepers!
Larry Smith
All I wanted was to pick up a kitten at a shelter. Then a harsh light shone in my face and the trick questions about clumping litter began.
God’s whip hand
Sidney Blumenthal
Convinced he is the instrument of the deity, bug killer Tom DeLay uses money and threats of political extermination to flay House Republicans into voting for impeachment. Part 4 of "The Clinton Wars."
The sins of the mother
Suzy Hansen
Lionel Shriver discusses her chilling new novel "We Need to Talk About Kevin," her fears about motherhood and how Columbine monsters are made.
An avant-garde phoenix rises out of Baghdad’s ashes
Phillip Robertson
In a ruined theater, in front of a weeping audience, a group of dissident artists stages the capital's first uncensored play in decades.
Roasted in their own bonfires
Sidney Blumenthal
After the pornographic Starr Report, the sexual hypocrisy of the GOP witch hunters comes back to haunt them, as Salon exposes Henry Hyde. Part 3 of "The Clinton Wars."
The 77-percent solution
Arianna Huffington
While Karl Rove crows over Bush's postwar approval rating, the latest numbers are lower than you'd think.
Help! My house is filled with light bulbs and cereal
Cary Tennis
My husband and I are drowning in clutter and debt, and I am at the end of my rope.
The Clinton wars
Sidney Blumenthal
He began his second term with talk of national healing. But Chief Justice Rehnquist knew what the president could expect: "Good luck. You'll need it." Part 1 of an explosive new White House memoir.
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