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A new low in the war on drugs
Arianna Huffington
The Bush administration launches a lamebrained attempt to give the drug war a makeover.
Salon Media Group Properties Surge Past 35,000 Paid Subscribers
Salon Staff
Subscriptions Now Represent 30% of Salon Revenue
The geeks who saved Usenet
Katharine Mieszkowski
Google's restoration of digital history relied on a few heroes' packrat mentality and a mountain of decaying mag tapes.
The techno-thrill is gone
Andrew Leonard
After Sept. 11, we know digital wizardry can't save the world -- or even distract us from horror. But don't trash those gadgets yet.
Land of the rising Xbox
Steve Mollman
Nintendo, Sony and Sega have made Japan king of the game console. Can Microsoft make a dent in Nippon?
The strange saga of Yahoo and WebRing
Katharine Mieszkowski
The sad tale of a hip little software program for linking Web sites together that was swallowed by by a once-hip behemoth -- then crashed and burned.
The Microsoft resistance
Scott Rosenberg
Redmond may have triumphed legally and financially -- but there are still little ways to strike blows against the empire.
The bid bombers of eBay
Gretchen Dukowitz
How a group of e-vigilantes, furious at profiteers attempting to cash in on the WTC tragedy, fought back.
The devil is in Windows’ details
Scott Rosenberg
It's the little things, like "registered file types," that allow Microsoft to maintain its monopoly. Will the court tackle them?
Slap on the wrist?
Andrew Leonard, the Salon Technology staff
Is the Justice Department's decision not to pursue a breakup of Microsoft a big wet kiss from Bush, or just smart strategy? The experts weigh in.
Out of the big house and into the trenches
Nell Bernstein
Imprisoned under mandatory sentencing, freed by President Clinton, now Kemba Smith and Dorothy Gaines, ex-con mothers, have to get their kids to school on time.
How do you fix a leaky Net?
Damien Cave
Brian West says he was doing a public service when he pointed out a security hole in an Oklahoma newspaper's Web site. So why did the editor in chief call the cops?
The trouble with Hotmail
Damien Cave
Microsoft can't seem to get its free e-mail act together. So what does that mean for the company's plans for total Net domination?
India’s salt wars
Written, photographed by Gordon Weiss
When Gandhi famously defied the British salt ban, he created an enduring symbol of purity and independence. But today, pure, locally-grown salt is threatening the health of tens of millions of India's children.
No laughing matter
Damien Cave
BANG! POW! ZAP! Online comics come under assault from the art form's old guard.
The parasite economy
Damien Cave
There's a new software business model in town -- symbiotic plug-ins that pay for the privilege of piggybacking on the hot download of the moment.
It’s OK to get angry
T. Wright Townsend
Upright Citizens Brigade comedian Matt Besser wants your cock-ring number.
Dept. of “Oops”
Katharine Mieszkowski
After four years, heeere's "Wild at Start," a documentary celebrating visionary new-economy entrepreneurs!
Save Java!
Damien Cave
Can computer makers and rebel programmers stop Microsoft from cutting off the programming language's air supply?
Letters of the week
Salon Staff
Readers call Jason D. Hill a eugenicist, provide testimonials on the joy of antidepressants and tell the parents of cyberbullies to rein in their kids.
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