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November 08, 2006

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EULA La Vista, Baby

November 01, 2006

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Wired News: Technology of the Beast

Those of you who enjoy comments that miss the point will particularly enjoy this one.

October 25, 2006

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MySpace, Now With Random Crap

October 18, 2006

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MySpace Avoidance Fails Miserably

October 11, 2006

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Grok Spock on the Auction Block

They used my title this time.

October 04, 2006

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Fun With Nintendo's Mii Channel

September 27, 2006

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Wired News: Warcraft Wonders of Tomorrow

(My suggested title was "O Brave New World of Warcraft.")

September 20, 2006

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Laying Traps for Space Tourists

September 13, 2006

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Modified Foods to Die For

September 06, 2006

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The Ultimate Blog Post

August 30, 2006

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A Robot That Walks Like a Gorilla

August 23, 2006

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Cheap, Chintzy Robots: Part Two

August 16, 2006

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The Age of Cheap, Plastic Robots

August 09, 2006

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Wired News: Fine Fast Food Is Just 'Gourmeh'

August 02, 2006

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Sweet New Silver-Screen Cereals

Readers of the Ratings will find the topic familiar. And someone has already been kind enough to add the grades for me in the comments.


July 26, 2006

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Condemning Comic-Con Costumes

July 19, 2006

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Wired News: Video Killed the Video Star

July 12, 2006

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Wired News: Aliens Took My Money

June 28, 2006

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Today's Movie Theaters, Tomorrow

Apologies to those who sat through my movie theater grousing only to encounter the same grousing in somewhat altered form on Wired News. I hope the added jokes are worth it.

June 23, 2006

More Bad Gods Source

I've uploaded another five Flash files to the source directory at Bad Gods. Jeez, two-thirds of the way through already?

June 21, 2006

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Disc Golf: It's Not Actually Golf

June 14, 2006

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You and Your Livejournal and You

June 07, 2006

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Google: Don't Not Be Evil

May 31, 2006

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Don't Forget the Amazing Doll Man

May 24, 2006

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In Praise of Rental Cars

It doesn't look like the podcast is up yet, but the text version is there.

May 17, 2006

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The Games Nobody Lines Up to Play

May 10, 2006

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Star Wars DVD Sets of Tomorrow

April 26, 2006

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Rodeo Is Bucking for an Upgrade

April 19, 2006

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The Wikipedia FAQK

April 12, 2006

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This week's column is about carrying your microtech.

April 05, 2006

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Sailing the Sorry Sea of Nausea

I'm continuing to try out different essay types. This one isn't tech-oriented at all, it's based on personal experience. I should point out, before Oprah endorses me, that I have no allegiance to truth in these essays. As far as I'm concerned they're humor essays that may or may not draw on personal experience, not actual autobiography. Having said that, I'm still dealing with the effects of that damn flu.

March 29, 2006

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Give Grumpy Gamers What They Want

I've intentionally covered a lot of ground in my columns so far (not so much in terms of topic as in terms of approach) trying to get a feel for what works and what doesn't work. This is probably my most "normal" humor column so far, using the standard approach of taking my actual opinions on a subject and exaggerating them for ostensibly comic effect.

March 22, 2006

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Not Your Mama's Online Assistant

March 15, 2006

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Ghost of Gaming Rip-Offs Past, with pictures!

March 08, 2006

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This week's column: Taking on the Text Adventure.

It's about World of Warcraft.

March 01, 2006

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This week's column, You Can Play With Your Food, is a sequel to last week's.

It's funny to be on a schedule with a delay. Last night I wrote the first draft of next week's column. By the time a column actually goes up, I'm thinking "Oh, yeah, I wrote that, didn't I? I kinda remember that."

Very different from the "Hey, it's 11:45 pm, I'd better get started on tomorrow's piece" schedule I've generally worked on with my own projects.

February 22, 2006

Alt Text: Fun Food for the Trivia-Minded

Fun Food for the Trivia-Minded, the latest Alt Text column is up.

Secret Note: This column is actually a Rating in disguise.

February 15, 2006

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"Tune In, Turn On, Veg Out" is now available. I would also like to point you to Wired's podcast blog where you can hear my stentorian baritone as well as the stentorian baritones of other Wired News columnists.

(Actually, I'm a bass, but "stentorian bass" seems like it should be a breed of Eurasian sport fish.)

February 08, 2006

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Spinning Suspicious Searches