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Stamping Out Spam - It's the scourge of the digital age. A new book has practical advice for controlling unwanted email and news postings. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]
 
Stanford Offers Desktop Degree - This September, Stanford University will welcome students back to school, but not necessarily back to campus. A few engineering students will earn graduate degrees entirely online. By Beverly Hanly. [Wired News]
 
Stars Smile on Gates - Surrender, Netscape! Even the zodiac is on Redmond's side for 1999, says online astrologer Kelli Fox. [Wired News]
 
Starship Titanic Sails Into Computer Gaming - Having learned that being a popular author is no guarantee of your computer game's success, Douglas Adams hopes that his new CD-ROM's lifelike language will prove popular with his literary fans. [Wired News]
 
Start Is Up - Microsoft quietly released a preview of its Internet Start on Monday, and so far, so what? By John Alderman. [Wired News]
 
Stay Home and Go Back to School - For a number of students this fall, going to college classes will mean curling up in their pajamas with a laptop or catching a lecture during a coffee break at work. By Beverly Hanly. [Wired News]
 
Straight Outta Redmond - Ken Barnes, compiler of "The Microsoft Lexicon," talks about tracking buzz-phrases in a high-tech hive mind. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
 
Strange Musical Instruments Serenade Financial Hub - The World Financial Center takes stock of musical inventors in a performance series and exhibit that showcases way-out creation. [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: All Natural and Complex - Magazines focusing on the natural world are plentiful these days, but the quarterly Terra Nova towers above the competition. [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: Audio Geek Chic - Operation Re-Information is reinventing the next generation of electronica music. [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: Bunny Bashing for Fun and Profit - Ulitma Online is filled with bugs, loopholes, and even psychopaths. But the game also presents a promising experiment, with plenty of reward for those willing to stick it out. [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: Chills, Thrills, and Frills - The eagerly anticipated sequel to Tomb Raider offers the chance to spend more quality time with Lara Croft, the treasure-hunting heroine made famous in the series. [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: From Apple to Zapruder - In his new book, Feed's Steven Johnson examines the machine, software, and network interfaces of the past half century in light of more archaic developments. [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: Goodbye, Betty Crocker - Brother's Kitchen Assistant is far from the first chip-based device to land in our kitchens. But it may be the cutest. [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: Live and Let Die - In GoldenEye 007, the world of James Bond has been captured on the Nintendo 64. Save the free world and hang out with sexy, heavily armed women. [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: Practical Applications - A new biography of Frederick Winslow Taylor maps out the transformation of the world into what it is today marked by a "fierce, unholy obsession with time, order, productivity, and efficiency". [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: Technology's Children - They don't speak in proper sentences, and their world has a decidedly psychedelic feel. But rugrats just love the BBC's Teletubbies, which debuts on American television this spring. [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: The Game of Life - Domestic animals used to be hot vehicles for practicing child-rearing techniques, but perhaps a new generation will hone its parenting chops via hot software simulations. [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: Friend or Foe? - The Blade Runner universe, introduced to the world 16 years ago by Ridley Scott, is still kicking, and now it's come to a CD-ROM drive near you. [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: Roll Camera, Roll Heads - Nowhere is the convergence of silicon and celluloid more evident than on the blood-spattered battlefield of Bungie's newest game. [Wired News]
 
 

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