Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Culture New! Submit a site   whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   "Macspotting": The New Obsession - What's even crazier than celebrity spotting? Spotting celebrities using Macs. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   'Beatnik' Tweaks David Bowie - You think the vocals are too crisp, the bass line too faint on "Fame"? Thomas Dolby Robertson serves up a new toy that lets you play producer with a David Bowie song. [Wired News]   'Girly' iBook Not Worthy of Men - PC Magazine's John C. Dvorak leads the charge against Apple's new consumer portable, but critics say he's out of touch. Let's give men the macho machines they demand. A Wired News commentary by Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   'Phantom Menace' Bores, Annoys - How could George Lucas possibly botch the most anticipated film in history? Three words: Annoying alien sidekick. [Wired News]   'Phantom' of the Music Channel - MTV releases a four-minute video teaser from the Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace soundtrack. Suddenly, the London Symphony Orchestra is hot. [Wired News]   'We Can Work It Out' - Someone else owns those words. In a nutshell, that's the problem for the Swiss-based International Lyric Server in its faceoff with US-based music publishers. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]   'Web Seance' Summons Art - The artists who created the Web's first interactive art performance now conduct another creative experiment that brings people together, online and off. By Reena Jana. [Wired News]   'West' Goes to Future Via Past - Wild Wild West, the latest Will Smith movie, is a period sci-fi flick. Its futuristic look is framed in the American West of the late 1800s. And somehow, it works. By Andrew Rice. [Wired News]   'What Am I Bid for These Geeks?' - Ebay adds another oddity to its online auction inventory. Now you can bid on a complete team of network engineers and administrators. [Wired News]   3-D Imaging for the Rest of Us - Imagine making a shoe on a computer. When computer-assisted design meets 3-D scanning and printing, it's not such a wacky idea. Michael Stroud reports from Siggraph99 in Los Angeles. [Wired News]   A 'Phantom' Sneak Peek - Over 8,000 people in six North American cities have already seen Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace. Would you like to know what they saw? [Wired News]   A Benchmark for High-Tech Skill - Students who boast both liberal-arts savvy and computing chops deserve their own standardized test, says a coalition of Virginia educators. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]   A Classic Gaming Weekend - Intellivision, Atari 2600, Pong. Classic games are still so popular they warrant their own expo. It's the 80s all over again. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]   A Corporation of Thinkers - A dozen Silicon Valley academics believe they can turn theorizing into a profitable business. So far, they've created surveillance systems and art. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   A Day for Techies - Tech workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your geeky image and a lack of competent colleagues. A special day will honor techies, and attempt to light a fire under the uninitiated. [Wired News]   A Financial Portal for Gays - The scion of an old Wall Street family brings timely money news to an eager niche market. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]   A Furby You Seek, Hmmm? - As Star Wars prequel mania begins to crest, Tiger Electronics reveals it is prepping a Yoda miniature based on the eerie talking doll. [Wired News]   A GLAAD Union - Two gay advocacy groups combine their talents to reach more people with their message. The alliance may be a new model for online activism. By Theta Pavis. [Wired News]   A Gamer's Dream Comes True - Sega releases its Dreamcast player in America, but it's not for sale. A few lucky devils managed to snag copies, but they had to win them. Joyce Slaton reports from San Francisco. [Wired News]   A Garden of Digital Delights - The second Digital Living Room conference strives to give us a glimpse of a future where refrigerators dispense Internet access as well as ice cubes. Also: Drawbacks to the digital home.... Log on while you drive.... NPR opts for old-time coverage. [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 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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