Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Culture New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Thomson Invests in MP3 - A consumer electronics giant jumps on the MP3 bandwagon. Thomson Multimedia acquires a 20 percent stake in MusicMatch, an MP3 software developer. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   Three-Way Quake Release - There's something for everybody in Quake 3: PC, Mac, and Linux versions of the popular game will be released all at once. By Oscar Cisneros. [Wired News]   Ticker Shock Strikes Techies - You might be wealthy on paper, but when stock bubbles burst, how's your mental health? Silicon Valley shrinks see a different kind of market madness. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Tickling the Ivories from Afar - The newest form of distance education brings together aspiring Rachmaninoffs and seasoned piano teachers in real time, thanks to a new piece of software. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]   Too Cool for School - Who's going to lead schools into the 21st century? Move over, Silicon Valley. Well-funded schools in Idaho are building high-tech classrooms of the future. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]   Top-Level Think Tank Goes Public - John Brockman's invitation-only salon for scientific thinkers opens a public forum on Feed. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]   Torvalds Lays an Egg - Linus Torvalds has a reputation as a funny, interesting speaker. But the lead developer of the Linux operating system bored the pants off a few hundred people at a Lotus developers' conference. Leander Kahney reports from San Francisco. [Wired News]   Toys That Are All Talk - Mattel's new talking toys use radio technology that responds to speech. Yeah, says Microsoft, but do they have TVs in their tummies? By Joyce Slaton. [Wired News]   Trekkies: Get a Life - A new documentary about Star Trek fandom makes for a funny, if biting, profile. Trekkers aren't going to like it. Review by Joyce Slaton. [Wired News]   Tuned Out - Can we wake up now? An ostrich-eye view of the year of the impeachment thing. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]   Twist and Shout at the X Games - Tony Hawk, five time X Games gold medalist, lands the first ever two-and-a-half rotation trick in skateboarding history. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Two Pentiums and a Microphone - A British DJ dumps the vinyl and the record players in favor of a laptop with a hard drive stocked to the ceiling with music and samples. Club kids eat it up. By Louise Knapp. [Wired News]   UFO Cult Disappears in Colombia - Up to 100 members of a South American cult are missing in the mountains of Colombia after trying to rendezvous with aliens. [Wired News]   UK Games Ratings Not Kids' Play - It's not an easy feat applying old rules to a new game, which is what they're finding in England when it comes to computer games. Alan Docherty reports from London. [Wired News]   Valley to Lose Film Jobs? - As Hollywood realizes it can make movies for a lot less outside the United States, digital-effects people begin to fear for their jobs. Michael Stroud reports from Variety's ShowBiz Expo in Los Angeles. [Wired News]   Video as High Art - Noted video artist Bill Viola discusses how the genre has come into its own, and how it's an important descendant of pop art. A Wired News interview by Reena Jana. [Wired News]   Videogame's Cheap Shot - A flamboyant videogame character raises eyebrows among gay-rights groups. His creators say he's not meant to be seen as gay. Really. By Steve Friess. [Wired News]   Vintage Tech's Bells and Whistles - Rumbling wrecks from the age of tech recall the days when men were boys and computers were all about flashing lights. Leander Kahney reports from the Vintage Computer Festival in Santa Clara, California. [Wired News]   Virgin To Burn Net Music CDs - Virgin Megastores launch a kiosk service to let customers walk out of the store with a CD full of Internet music. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Virtual Art, Real Conversation - Theglobe.com opens a new community to art aficionados. Viewers have the chance to speak their minds -- directly to the artists -- about the works they see. By Reena Jana. [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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