Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Culture New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   The Force for Good Isn't Cheap - Charity pre-screenings of The Phantom Menace could cost hard-core Star Wars fans a bundle. Michael Stroud reports from Los Angeles. [Wired News]   The Ghosts and the Machine - In a new book, a robotics researcher predicts the obsolescence of his own field. One day, he'll be replaced by a robot. By John Alderman. [Wired News]   The Great Spam Sweepstakes - A Y2K contest is giving away a six-month supply of canned meat. Pick your poison: nuclear annihilation or an extended diet of Spam. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   The Greatest Show from Earth - The biggest thing to cross the sky since Hale-Bopp appears in Europe and the Middle East for a scant three minutes. In England, hype for Wednesday's total solar eclipse is out of control. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   The History of Celebrity - Andy Warhol and 19th-century photographer Nadar share a show at the Getty. The attention-hungry artists, separated by a century, share an affinity for fame. Art review by Barbara Lee Williams, reporting from Los Angeles. [Wired News]   The Joke's on eBay - The auction house wins the Coolest Shopping Site of the Year at an awards ceremony. So how on earth did zine writer Todd Levin get his hands on it? By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   The Literary Life Online - Three prestigious authors are appointed to a virtual writers-in-residence program that conquers the loneliness of the long-distance writer. By Reena Jana. [Wired News]   The MP3 Killer Gathers Steam - The Secure Digital Music Initiative agrees on the first stage of a new digital audio format for portable music players. The end-game: Leave MP3 in the dust. By Joe Ashbrook Nickell. [Wired News]   The Magical Media Tour - A San Francisco school bus hits the road to teach kids critical thinking skills and improve their understanding of new media. Katie Dean reports from San Francisco. [Wired News]   The Making of a Girl Techie - Interest in the sciences starts young, or it doesn't start at all. So women teachers devise creative programs that encourage girls to excel in math, science, and technology. By Katie Dean. [Wired News]   The Marriage of Tech and Opera - An MIT professor creates "electropera" -- a combination of digitally generated and acoustic sound. His mission: to drag opera into the high-tech world. By David Kushner. [Wired News]   The Matrix: A Cyberpunk Triumph - In the dystopian world of 2199, only one man can save humanity from spending eternity suspended in virtual reality goo. But is he man enough? Review by Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]   The Myth of the Pocket Protector - Hollywood and TV perpetuate the stereotype that techies are socially inept, four-eyed freaks. One expert says it's hurting the industry and threatening America's future. John Gartner reports from San Jose, California. [Wired News]   The Net Plays in Peoria - The early adopters have left the building -- new research reveals that Americans going online are less educated and less affluent than those who came before. By Pete Danko. [Wired News]   The Net, Hollywood Enemy No. 1 - Kids spend less time in front of the TV these days as they increasingly log on. Programmers and advertisers wrestle to capture an emerging demographic group. By Deb Monroe. [Wired News]   The New, Improved Sound of Music - Will better sound mean bigger audiences for Spinner.com? The online broadcaster is betting it will. Traditional broadcasters downplay the threat. By Chris Stamper. [Wired News]   The Next 20 Years, in 20 Minutes - A traveling roadshow of futurists checks into the Big Apple, with prognostications and punditry. The future has a name, and it's "biotech." Theta Pavis reports from New York. [Wired News]   The Next Extreme Sport: Driving - It's day one of the annual X Games in San Francisco, and the locals are grumbling about what may be the worst traffic the city has ever seen. Oh yes, and taking advantage of a "unique marketing opportunity." Polly Sprenger reports from San Francisco. [Wired News]   The Onion Hits the Big Time - Editors of The Onion consider the price of fame as their book sells out its first printing before it's even released. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   The Onion of the Airwaves - The irreverent newspaper that became a Web site and published its first book in April will soon be a radio show. [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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