Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Culture New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Satirical Science Pubs Locked in Humorless Suit - The publisher of the Journal of Irreproducible Results has slapped the Annals of Improbable Research with a not-so-funny lawsuit, alleging readership theft. [Wired News]   Saving Pac-Man for Posterity - Programmers use emulators to hack their childhood arcade obsessions onto today's computers. [Wired News]   Say It Ain't So - The stagnant pond of contemporary fiction hasn't bred the Dickensian epic Tom Wolfe hoped for; it's grown an algae of Literary Memoirs, books whose main appeal is that they Really Happened. [Wired News]   Scans: Don't Try This at Home - Kal Spelletich creates postindustrial folk art that pushes boundaries of art using interactive machines. [Wired News]   Scans: Fear of a Schwa Planet - Aliens! Newly released Schwa World Operations Manual points a green finger at the dehumanizing forces of marketing, business, and legal protocol from the veil of a how-to guidebook. [Wired News]   Scans: Foghorn Maestro - With an unlikely combination of salvaged Coast Guard foghorns and a diesel-powered air compressor, guerrilla musician Jason Gorski has developed a 140-decibel one-man symphony. [Wired News]   Scans: Idoru Feminism - Reiko Chiba wants to use her Web pages to change Japanese society. [Wired News]   Scans: Merriam Webster of High Tech - Whatis.com, courtesy of Lowell Thing, helps non-techies decipher the language of the Net. [Wired News]   Scans: Real Tests for Real Kids - Morgan Media creates qualitative assessment tools for educators that break the tyranny of standardized testing. [Wired News]   Scans: Telecom Freedom Fighters - Underdog RCN Corporation goes fist to cuffs with Bell Atlantic in an attempt to overthrow the telecommunications giant. [Wired News]   Scans: Television Nation - MED-TV broadcasts to the stateless nation of Kurdistan, seeking to provide a platform for development of Kurdish culture, language, and communication. [Wired News]   Scans: The Great Pumpkin Goes Ballistic - Projectile pumpkins fill the skies of Lewes, Delaware, where 35,000 are expected to attend the 13th Annual Punkin Chunkin competition. [Wired News]   Scenes from the Marriage of Audio and Video - Emergency Broadcast Network has built a reputation for works combining hyperkinetic sampling that is at once disturbing and funny. In its new outing, the band's going for a seamless whole. [Wired News]   Scenes from the Marriage of Audio and Video - Emergency Broadcast Network has built a reputation for works combining hyperkinetic sampling that is at once disturbing and funny. In its new outing, the band's going for a seamless whole. [Wired News]   Schmios Give Clios a Kick in the Ads - The industry's annual self-congratulatory ritual yielded the usual honors, but the accolades for the most patently offensive and insidious ads were doled out the night before. [Wired News]   Schools Sell Screensaver Ad Space to Pepsi - In Ontario, Pepsi and McDonald's are spreading their word via classroom computers. [Wired News]   Sci-Fi Site Stole Trade Secrets, Sony Says - But the "Wolf Blitzer of the Internet" claims his is a news - not a fan - site, and deserves to stay up. [Wired News]   Sci-Tech Oscar Hopefuls Strut Their Geeky Stuff - An evening's demonstration of technical devices under consideration for awards mixed showmanship with a twisted sense of humor and style. [Wired News]   Science Center Looks Ahead, Reaches Back - It's not as flashy as its next-door-neighbor-to-be, the Experience Music Project building, but French architect Denis Laming's design combines a background in historic sites with futuristic visions. [Wired News]   Scorned Spammer Floods Net with Fake Threats - Messages sent from an apparently disgruntled customer and purporting to be from Samsung send Netizens scurrying to proclaim they're not email terrorists. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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