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Search Engine for DIYers May Be Too Good to Last - The DIY Search provides lists of do-it-yourself projects. But like many DIY projects, its eventual success could mean its eventual doom. [Wired News]
 
Secret Admirer Plays Darts with Love - Cupid's come-ons can now be emailed, but good luck figuring out who sent it, or trying to give it back. [Wired News]
 
Secret Prankster Fund Goes Public - &#174TMark will pay saboteurs for acts of creative subversion against mass-produced items. [Wired News]
 
Seeing Stars - Recently translated from Russian into English, Omon Ra captures the voice of postglasnost hip with a roboticized expedition to the Moon. [Wired News]
 
Sega Cuts Game Prices, Software Ties - Sega answers Sony and Nintendo price drops with a cut of roughly 50 percent. Meanwhile, SegaSoft releases its final game in the Saturn format. [Wired News]
 
Sex and the Wired Senior - Third Age prepares to launch a site designed to offer people of a certain age "a safe place to listen, talk, and explore" their sex lives. [Wired News]
 
ShadowServer Creates Mysterious Web Art - A telerobotic project lets viewers interact with the most basic of electronic circuits - the lightbulb. [Wired News]
 
She Started Shy, and Now Shows It All on Web - 'The Shy Exhibitionist' has launched a 'club' of interested members who pay to see the chronicles of her public exposure. [Wired News]
 
Shipwrecked in Voyage to Salvation - Don't blame it on bits, says Steve Silberman: Heaven's Gate tragedy underlines need for the Net as a community-building tool. [Wired News]
 
Short Films Get Long Attention - Six of the top 200 entries from the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival - many of which highlight the growing power of consumer-level filmmaking tools - will go on to Oscars competition. [Wired News]
 
Shrink Speaks: The Net Is Addictive - Too much of a good thing makes mental health professionals nervous: At an American Psychological Association panel in Chicago, a Pennsylvania psychologist has created a buzz by concluding that many online suffer from "pathological Internet use." [Wired News]
 
Sidewalk Caught Between Local and Global - Each of the similarly designed Sidewalk offices around the world has one mandate: Be unique. [Wired News]
 
Sidewalk Finally Hits Streets of San Francisco - Where do Bay Area netizens want to go today? It's taken Microsoft a long time to decide. [Wired News]
 
Sidewalk Losing Editorial Independence - Redmond has decreed that its Cinemania and Music Central properties will provide Sidewalk with its movie and music reviews. Some city producers are not happy. [Wired News]
 
Siggraph Goes Hollywood - The influence of the film industry - plastic glamour and all - is strongly evident at this year's computer-graphics extravaganza. But nothing can compete with the over-the-top spectacles of NT and SGI slugging it out. [Wired News]
 
Silicon Alley Revels with NY Film World - A wild weekend ball in NY brought filmmakers and webmasters together in the bowels of a dredged boat. [Wired News]
 
Silicone Sirens Sizzle Like a Sex Machine - A special effects artist and a cyberporn mastermind join forces to build and market a $4,000 love doll. The makers are selling the life-sized Realdolls at one a day, and are considering an AI enhancement. [Wired News]
 
Silver Screen Snake-Bytes Upgrade Robotics - The 3,000 pound crawling machine used in Anaconda required the use of 140 joints run by 250-horsepower hydraulic pumps, and 3 gigaflops of custom-assembled processing power. [Wired News]
 
Simon and Schuster's Wired Lesson Plan - The textbook publisher is building an online education network by taking something old and making it new - on the Web. [Wired News]
 
Sims Put Students Safely in the Driver's Seat - It seemed logical to make an instructional program out of auto-racing-game engines, but building the model from scratch was the only way to keep teens from becoming crash-movie material. [Wired News]
 
 

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