Vintage Articles

9-11I wrote this in response to the unusual patriotism that suddenly appeared following the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center. I decided not to make any edits or changes to this from the original one. If I had written this today, I probably wouldn't be so scathing, but I'm not going to apologize for it. By the way, this is my favorite rant of the ones I wrote to date.

It's about five dollarsThis saga starts at the San Francisco Farmer's Market. It's held at the Ferry Building, at the north end of Market Street in downtown. Every weekend hundreds (thousands?) of people and dozens of booths make this a nice place to do your shopping for fresh foodstuffs if you live in the city. There was no lack of tasty treats for whatever your appetite desires from what I saw.

Once again,  the porn industry is one step ahead of everyone in adapting to changing technology.

A review of Lieberman's campaign finance reports by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive...

The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

The Atlantic covers news, politics, culture, technology, health, and more, through its articles, podcasts, videos, and flagship magazine.

A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf. - new ed. - London : Hogarth Press, 1935. - 172 p. ; 19 cm.

Why the American space program died the moment the foot of Apollo 11’s Commander Neil Armstrong touched the surface of the Moon in 1969.

A & M RECORDS, INC. v. Napster, Inc., 114 F. Supp. 2d 896 (N.D. Cal. 2000) case opinion from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Have you heard, a plane has crashed into the world trade centre in New York? (you can always rely on me for ground breaking news can't you!)

It is not easy capturing the attention of Jim Breyer, one of Silicon Valley's leading venture capitalists. But Mark Zuckerberg, a 21-year-old Harvard student, managed to do it with a Web site that has attracted 2.8 million registered users on more than 800 campuses since it began in February 2004. Mr. Breyer was so taken with Mr. Zuckerberg's company, thefacebook.com, which creates online interactive college-student networks, that his firm, Accel Partners, plans to announce a $13 million investment in the start-up today.

Email etiquette guide

1982– An unruly market may undo the work of a giant cartel and of an inspired, decades-long ad campaign

“Consider a future device …  in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”

America Online has been on a rocket ride, rapidly becoming the largest online service provider in the world. Now it would like to morph into an "interactive service company" - before Microsoft and the Web eat its lunch.

America Online, confounding skeptics, has emerged over the last two years as biggest, most powerful company on the Internet; an astounding 39 percent of Americans' time on line is spent using services company controls, 10 times share of its nearest competitor, Microsoft; despite success rate, Stephen M Case, AOL chairman, has plan to take company further that includes goal of roughly doubling number of subscribers over next five years, developing new services to lure users to stay on line longer and subsuming all other media by delivering its service on television screens, cellular telephones and other devices, in addition to computers; Case says that 'in the future, AOL is the next Microsoft'; photos; graphs (L)

TV Networks & Advertisers Benefit From Reality TV's Lower Production Costs & Inexpensive Air Time