Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Culture New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Marketing Intelligent Life - The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence will live long and prosper, thanks to support from the latest Star Trek flick. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]   Mattel Turns Barbie Into PC-Enhanced Geek - The toy-maker has decided that girls want to have fun with more than just dolls, and are creating Barbie software, Barbie digital cameras and, yes, programmable Barbies. It's signed a deal with Intel, too, to make more of its toys interactive. [Wired News]   MechCommander on the Move - FASA releases the long-awaited BattleTech game, but you may be seeing it on more than the computer screen. By John Alderman. [Wired News]   Members Only - Suck.com celebrates a decade of the organ of generation. Courtesy of Mr. Mxyzptlk. [Wired News]   Microsoft Gets In on the Games - Software giant unveils new products and strategies at Gamestock 98. [Wired News]   Microsoft Goes After the Press - Microsoft subpoenas a CNET journalist's notes, an increasingly popular legal tactic. Under the media microscope for months, the company's legal team gets aggressive. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]   Microsoft's Necktie Party - The software superpower, in a Father's Day come-on for Slate and in a series of Bill Gates golf-club commercials, is showcasing a kinder, gentler side to its normally combative image. By Dan Brekke. [Wired News]   Mining Co. Celebrates 1st Year - The number of hosts has more than tripled, and the company hopes a relaunch will deal with the navigational burden created by so much content. Meanwhile, deals with other services spread that content further. [Wired News]   Mondo Porno - A picture or two would have been worth all the racy words of the Starr report -- to television, anyway. From Suck.com. [Wired News]   Monsters, Spies, and Implants - When artists get their hands on technology, things can get a little crazy, and the lines between virtual space and physical reality can be obscured, even obliterated. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]   More Headroom: MTV Debuts a Digital Bill - When Clinton gives his State of the Union Address on the 27th, MTV will feature a talking 3-D-rendered Bill cartoon, delivering its sassy prescripted reply. Protozoa, the company that created Virtual Bill, says there are more where that head came from. [Wired News]   More Money for Aussie Techies - Australia's government is pumping money into the high-tech infrastructure to make the country a major multimedia player. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]   Mouses to the Grindstone - A recent study suggests that most online on-the-clock hours are spent in work-related activities. By Regina Lynn Preciado. [Wired News]   Movies Online? Not Yet - Large entertainment studios are more interested in protecting intellectual property than making a killing in ecommerce. But tech companies that develop protective software may change that. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]   Mr. Toad's Last Ride - Enthusiastic online protesters fail to keep Disney from replacing the old favorite with a newer, fluffier attraction. By Rob Waller. [Wired News]   Museum Faces Challenge of Creating New-Media Tools - The newly created National Center for Science Literacy, Education, and Technology ponders the best methods of using technology to facilitate education. [Wired News]   Museum Web Site Kicks Off New California ID - Hoping to raise awareness of the Golden State's "culture capital," the California Culture Net project will attempt to create "brand" recognition. [Wired News]   Music to Their Ears - They've listened to the promise of a new standard for digital music downloads. Still, proponents of MP3 and other music compression technologies aren't singing the blues. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]   NYSE Gets 'Ramped' Up - The New York Stock Exchange has asked hot Silicon Alley architectural firm Asymptote to build a data center for the 21st century. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]   Naked Angels Don't Fly With Retailers - Interplay's latest game features a naked angel on the cover. The company calls it "fine art," but retailers apparently don't agree. [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 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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