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Female law students targeted online
Tracy Clark-Flory
Fellow students post anonymously about women's looks and sex lives.
Slashdot: The Next Generation
Andrew Leonard
A press release for the "news for nerds" site's new "content aggregation" software is not geek-friendly
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Huge steroid bust. So that's how big the sports drug problem is? No, it's bigger. Plus: Babydol and Lasorda? He denies it.
Steve Jobs’ iTunes dance
Cory Doctorow
Now the Apple CEO says he would gladly sell songs without digital restrictions, if the record companies let him. That's hardly a brave defiance, and besides, I don't believe him.
Big Pharma reads the Chinese Web
Andrew Leonard
Let a hundred blogs about cancer bloom, and then figure out how to seduce the "e-fluencers."
Taking it to the streets
Helaine Olen
Rene Denfeld, author of a new book on the violent subculture of street families, talks about why these young nomads are every bit as dangerous as the Bloods and the Crips.
Words fail us
Scott Rosenberg
Programmers talk to computers using precise instructions -- but when they communicate with people, human language betrays them. An excerpt from "Dreaming in Code."
“John McCain vs. John McCain”
David Puner
Direct-to-Internet video produced with user-sharing impact in mind.
Welcome to celebrehab
Scott Lamb
Our clip 'n' save guide to the latest in star makeovers, where the first step is to admit you have a problem and the second step is to get back to partying.
The Fix
Scott Lamb
Kidman in car crash. Liz Taylor chooses Clinton in '08. Plus: Justin Timberlake now seeing Jessica Biel?
Food Network/McDonald’s programming oddity
David Puner
Is subliminal product placement the wave of the future?
Going mobile
Farhad Manjoo
With his usual rock 'n' roll swagger, Steve Jobs introduced Apple's new iPhone. But is the $500 phone more than another cell job?
Women’s issues
Catherine Price
An online community sponsored by Procter & Gamble lets women share inspirational stories about weight loss and romance.
World-class athletes and the usual misdemeanors
King Kaufman
As Americans focused more than ever before on international contests, the biggest story was Italy winning soccer. But there were other unexpected champions too.
YouTube: I think I’m turning Japanese
Andrew Leonard
Japanese copyright holders demand action! It's all about the cartoons.
Looking for 18,000 missing votes in Florida
Katharine Mieszkowski
Did electronic voting machines cost a Democrat her seat in Congress?
Barred from voting
Katharine Mieszkowski
State laws prohibit millions of ex-felons from voting -- and favor Republicans at the polls. But activists say prisoners who served their time have every right to serve their country by casting a ballot.
Bogus terror threats, not just from Washington anymore
Alex Koppelman
Right-wing bloggers sound the alarm about a terror threat that's more Onion than jihad.
The telecom slayers
Daniel W. Reilly
In the Capitol Hill battle over Net neutrality, a ragtag army of grass-roots Internet groups, armed with low-budget videos, music parodies and petitions, have the corporate telecoms, and their allies in Congress, on the run.
The needle and the damage undone
Mark Follman
Vancouver has halted a drug epidemic by helping street addicts shoot up in safety. Will U.S. cities -- and Bush's drug czar -- learn from the Canadians' success?
Why Johnny can’t code
David Brin
BASIC used to be on every computer a child touched -- but today there's no easy way for kids to get hooked on programming.
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
Gritty Social Realism week brings two of the year's best movies: The much celebrated "Half Nelson" and a passionate, Oscar-worthy German film.
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