Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Culture New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Sony to Sell Digital Downloads - Sony signs on to start zapping its music to stores and customers digitally over a high-speed, proprietary network. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   South Park Game Sells Out - Comedy Central's profanity-spewing grade schoolers make a big hit with Nintendo gamers. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   South Park as Art, Science - The controversial TV show offers a weekly study in genetic engineering, according to one highbrow. And more from the Ars Electronica festival. Steve Kettmann reports from Linz, Austria. [Wired News]   Sowing Seeds for Family Trees - The Mormon Church opens its online genealogy database -- 400 million names strong -- to family historians of all faiths. [Wired News]   Spam: It's What's for Content - Think you've had your fill of spam? In the hands of artists, unsolicited email becomes a delectable treat. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]   Spamming God - Too busy to pray? Relax. For just pennies a day, PrayerWheel promises to have its computers crank out nonstop prayers in the religion of your choice. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   Speech Therapy - Did President Clinton's State of the Union address last week tell us absolutely nothing? Or did it just feel that way? Courtesy of Suck.com. [Wired News]   Sprechen Sie Internet Deutsch? - As Germans clamor for Net access and tools like email, they leave their language behind them. German isn't what it used to be. By Carter Dougherty. [Wired News]   Standardized Tests Get Personal - The school year has just begun, but how can you be sure your kids will be ready to take the dreaded standarized tests at the end of the year? By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   Star Wars Sites Look Ahead - Now that they've had the chance to see Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace seven times, fans look ahead to Episode II. Will Leo take Anakin Skywalker into puberty? [Wired News]   Star Wars Ticket Marathon Starts - Pack your sleeping bag and camp stove. If you want to see The Phantom Menace on opening day, you better be ready to stand in line -- for a month. By Joyce Slaton. [Wired News]   Star Wars' Digital Experiment - With 'Episode 1: The Phantom Menace,' George Lucas will nudge Hollywood toward a new age of filmmaking. Some theater chains are enthused, but others fear runaway costs and pirating. Michael Stroud reports from Los Angeles. [Wired News]   Star Wars' Ticket Wars Averted - Forget about buying advance tickets for Star Wars prequel Episode I: The Phantom Menace. They won't be sold until the film opens. [Wired News]   Star Wars: The British Invasion - British fans can't wait an extra month for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace to reach the UK. So they're coming to America. Alan Docherty reports from London. [Wired News]   Star Wars: The Phantom Macs? - A company behind some of the special effects in Episode I: The Phantom Menace is crossing light sabers with George Lucas, claiming Industrial Light and Magic owes a huge debt to cheap software and standard Macintosh computers. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   Star Wars: the 'Asciimation' - Creating a little ACSII cartoon for your email sig file can be fun. Recasting Star Wars in ASCII characters can drive you crazy. By Denis Faye. [Wired News]   Starbucks Stirs Literary Brouhaha - The company's new Joe magazine serves up a fiction frappuccino, a literary latt , a hot cup o' haiku. But some can't swallow the corporate sponsorship sprinkled on every page. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Steve Jobs, Alchemist - There's more to Apple's new year than just "iCandy." The fruit-flavored iMacs are just one part of Jobs' keen strategy to make the company matter again. Steve Silberman reports from San Francisco. [Wired News]   Stodgy Bookstores Get Savvy - College bookstores, facing the threat of the online industry, are mobilizing to compete. The winner, for once? The students. By Katie Dean. [Wired News]   Streamed Sex Takes on MPAA - Two filmmakers, unhappy with the rating the Motion Pictures Association of America gave their film, invite a Net audience to decide what's risqu . Andrew Rice reports from Los Angeles. [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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