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Napster throws Metallica a curveball
Janelle Brown
The music-swapping software company uses the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to protect fans from being unduly blocked from its service.
The Whitney Houston rules
Carina Chocano
The hypocrisy of America's marijuana laws is highlighted by the glamorous singer's non-arrest after she's found with a half-ounce of pot in an airport.
Open-source bloatware
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."
Immunized against addiction
Dawn MacKeen
Can a simple vaccine kill the appetite for cocaine? Researchers may soon find out.
Letters to the editor
Salon Staff
Recipes for dealing with spam Plus: Who took the surprise out of the Waco raid? Hemlock Society founder weighs in on physician-assisted suicide.
Robert Moog
Frank Houston
His invention had an extraordinary impact on how musicians create, and radically changed the way music is made.
Manly men take hormones?
Douglas Foster
Testosterone mania has seized the nation, along with bogus gender myths.
Napster backlash
Eric Boehlert
A once outspoken supporter of the controversial music-swapping
software switches his allegiance, as musicians strike back at Napster.
Tasty spam?
Lydia Lee
If companies served up e-mail right, consumers would beg for it, says Hans Peter Br
Flameout
Samantha Gillison
A friend remembers the short, scary, brilliant life of novelist Robert Bingham.
Killjoy
Damien Cave
Technology is changing our world -- and we should be afraid! Sun Microsystems chief scientist Bill Joy envisions a frightening future of self-replicating machines.
Creepy-crawly Web things
Katharine Mieszkowski
A British design shop unleashes another utterly engrossing way to while away hours at your computer when you should be working.
Letters to the editor
Salon Staff
Can Dungeons & Dragons regain gamers' trust? Plus: Attachment parenting by any other name; will Chris Columbus ruin Harry Potter?
We're here, we're queer, we're media moguls
Lydia Lee
Is PlanetOut CEO Megan Smith building the gay and lesbian AOL Time Warner?
Why leave your 'marks online?
Damien Cave
A bevy of companies wants you to move your bookmarks from your browser to the Web, but it's not clear how you'd benefit.
Cybersleuth
Mark Compton
Posing as a thief or informing the FBI about hacker behavior -- it's all in a day's work for AntiOnline founder John Vranesevich.
Google: We're down with ODP
Mark Durham
Will the streamlined search engine's decision to mix in the 20,000 editors of the Open Directory Project mess with its mojo?
Give my regards to broadband
Scott Rosenberg
High-speed access is great -- but it doesn't turn the Internet back into TV.
Spongeworthiness
Jenn Shreve
The Today Sponge survives the strange saga of its five-year disappearance.
The privacy police?
Lydia Lee
TRUSTe CEO Bob Lewin explains how even sites selling personal data can get the nonprofit's privacy seal of approval.
Going Dutch
David Downie
Can America learn from the Netherlands' drug policy of tolerance and ambiguity?
“Opt-in rules!”
Lydia Lee
How does 24/7 Media CEO David Moore target ads without raising the ire of privacy activists? He asks permission.
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