Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Culture New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Italian Monument Gets the Vibe - The Baptistery of Pisa -- one of the Leaning Tower's lesser-known neighbors -- will be the site of a spectacular musical production that gives new meaning to the term "Rock the house." Maria Cristina Valsecchi reports from Pisa, Italy. [Wired News]   Italian Smut Site Left Unzipped - An adult site reveals the emails and credit card numbers of its members to the world. Meanwhile, the man behind the curtain -- the ex-manager of porn queen Cicciolina -- may be behind bars. By James Glave. [Wired News]   Italy Soups Up Horse Race - The centuries-old il Palio takes place again this year as always, but the ancient race will employ some new gadgets. Maria Cristina Valsecchi reports from Siena, Italy. [Wired News]   Ivory-Tower Open Source - Scholars at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are transforming the timeworn process of academic peer review. By Joe Ashbrook Nickell. [Wired News]   JASON Explores the Amazon - The scientist who discovered where the Titanic rested on the ocean floor takes students on a virtual expedition of the Amazon rainforest. [Wired News]   Japan OK's Pill, Cautiously - Japanese women finally have access to the birth control pill as a contraceptive, rather than just as a treatment for menstrual problems. Drug companies aren't expecting a rush anytime soon, though. By Debbi Gardiner. [Wired News]   Japan Pays for Blasé Y2K Plans - That bastion of the high-tech world hasn't exactly approached the rollover into 2000 with alacrity. Some officials are getting antsy about it. By Debbi Gardiner. [Wired News]   Jobs, Gates: Extreme Geeks - Pirates of Silicon Valley is a fanciful tale of the rivalry between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. If even half of it is true, you'll probably want to drop all your computer-science classes. Review by Michael Stroud. [Wired News]   Journalism's Unwritten Story - African-Americans have made significant contributions to the journalism field since the 1950s. Now their history can be read online. By Neda Raouf. [Wired News]   Juicing Up MP3 - A new site joins the effort to market secure MP3 files. By Nora Isaacs. [Wired News]   Kasparov Goes Bigger than Blue - World chess champion Garry Kasparov -- famous for tangling with IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer -- takes on the world. His latest game uses distributed computing to connect any challenger. By Joyce Slaton. [Wired News]   Kid-Porn Vigilante Hacked Media - A former hacker made headlines all over the world when he declared war on child pornographers. But his one-man campaign wasn't all it was cracked up to be. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]   Kid-Porn Vigilante Hacked Media - A former hacker made headlines all over the world when he declared war on child pornographers. But his one-man campaign wasn't all it was cracked up to be. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]   Kidneys These Days! - It's better than peddling your body on the street, but not by much: An entrepreneur tries to auction vital organs on the Internet. EBay says, "Cut it out!" [Wired News]   Klingons Take It Off - Someone's gonna get called to the bridge for sure: They may not be real Klingons, but they really are naked. By Denis Faye. [Wired News]   Know Your Enemy -- Or Not - A new gaming community lets you find formidable opponents and still keep your personal information private -- unless you engage them in combat. By Andy Patrizio. [Wired News]   Knowles Gets Two Thumbs Up - The webmaster gets the call he's been waiting for all his life. The Ain't It Cool News founder does a guest shot on Siskel & Ebert. By Chris Stamper. [Wired News]   Ku Klux Klan Korrected - If you tried to get into the KKK Web site recently, you may have been redirected to an anti-hate page. And that didn't exactly please the anti-hate people, either. By James Glave. [Wired News]   Labels to Artists: Weownyou.com - The recording industry is trying to get new artists to sign over their domain names to a label -- for life. Don't do it, says rapper Ice-T. Arik Hesseldahl reports from New York. [Wired News]   Lando Versus Godzilla? - A Seattle filmmaker scrambles the Star Wars iconography with Evan's Star Wars Cinema, a collection of short films featuring those familiar action figures in not-so-familiar scenarios. By Joe Ashbrook Nickell. [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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