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Is It Real, or Is It Robotics?
- Scientists and artists working with robots gather at Siggraph to examine and play with the challenging nature of reality witnessed from several degrees of separation. [Wired News]
Is Running Over Pedestrians Really That Bad?
- A British group fighting the censorship of digital media will set up in a London cybercafe to encourage the public to judge videogame violence for themselves. [Wired News]
Is There a Pulitzer for New Media Patience?
- The folks who bestow journalism's highest honor - and snubbed electronic publications - will be studying the inclusion of new media entries. But don't think about submitting URLs until at least 1999. [Wired News]
It Ain't Easy Making South Park Cheesy
- Cut-out paper animation looks great - but producing the homemade look took too long. After the creators of the new cartoon sensation turned to digital assistance, it was only by the fourth show that they got the look just right. [Wired News]
Japanese Crooks Taking Tech to the Bank
- How a radio transmitter helped a man win big at pachinko, and other true crime stories. [Wired News]
Japanese Festival Unites Art, Fashion, VRML
- The second annual Neoteric Festival will feature fashion shows with both human and VRML-rendered models. Couture bad-boy Jean-Paul Gaultier and DJ Mix Master Morris will appear in the flesh. [Wired News]
Jeeves Finds the Way
- A new search engine speaks English, and features P. G. Wodehouse's famous butler as a mascot. [Wired News]
Joystick Nation Faces Gender Divide
- Author of videogame history has mixed feelings about gaming and gender issues. [Wired News]
Joysticks Jerk, Shake, Buzz - and Evolve
- Microsoft plays catch-up in the race to give joysticks more impact. [Wired News]
Jurassic Game Flouts Hyper-Real Physics
- DreamWorks Interactive is trying to break video games out of their geekboy ghetto with a new game based on the Jurassic Park mythos. [Wired News]
Just Clap Your Joystick to the Beat
- The whimsical videogame Parappa the Rappa's success in crossing the Pacific taste divide is partially owed to the creative team's inclusion of Rodney Alan Greenblat, who knows how to convince American audiences to suspend their cuteness repulsion. [Wired News]
Just Outta Beta: A Naked Video Obsession
- Jamie Cason reviews Craig Hosoda's The Bare Facts Video Guide [Wired News]
Just Outta Beta: Garage Bands Go Global
- Liquid Audio promises a fully functional system for listening to, buying, and recording music over the Net. [Wired News]
Just Outta Beta: Programmed to Checkmate
- Chris Hudak, garden-variety loser, reviews Power Chess, gets killed - and loves it. [Wired News]
Keeping Our Heads (While We Grow Three More)
- Walter Truett Anderson, author of Evolution Isn't What it Used To Be, offers insight on cloning. [Wired News]
Keeping Up with the Clones
- 'The demand for human organs and for human clones will build once it becomes clear that this is doable,' Alvin Toffler says. 'The race is probably already on.' [Wired News]
Keyword: Mom
- The access to people, medical information, and government databases brought about by the information revolution is having profound effects on some sectors of society where secrecy is a covenant - like adoption. [Wired News]
Kings of Jungle
- Jungle music - pulsing, insanely fast, and not afraid to be goofy - is moving fast from a mutant culture to a mainstream phenomenon. [Wired News]
Kitchen Sink Circling the Drain
- The publisher of R. Crumb and Charles Burns is going under, and blames the electronic competition. [Wired News]
Knee-Deep in Spam Zone, Booksellers Bow
- Prompted by a little bud-nipping pressure, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble promise to review their policies. [Wired News]
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