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Jason and the Jargonauts
This is an article about Net jargon and slang I wrote for ZDTV. You can also see me in all of my inarticulate real-time glory via a RealVideo clip from the ZDTV show "Call for Help."
Basement Media Column
I did a monthly column for the now-defunct MSNBC's The Site called Basement Media. Click here for a list of the columns.
Blow Your Socks Off!
(Discovery Online) James Bond said no well-dressed man should be without one. Whatever happened to the jet packs we were supposed to be wearing by now? Hugo Gernsback take me away!
Sergei Korolev: The Soviet Space Program's Secret Mastermind
(Discovery Online) Everybody knows who Werner Von Braun was, but what about Sergei Korolev? He survived a life of unspeakable hardship to lead the Red Star into orbit.
Secure Web Transactions?
(STIM) Are credit card transactions secure over the Net? I say: Who cares?
This Shit Doesn't Stink, It "Exceeds the Odor Threshold"
(STIM) Great moments in doublespeak.
If Tiny Robots Ruled the Earth
(STIM) One branch of robotics builds "nervous nets" instead of neural nets and believes in robot evolution through human competition.
Brainwash 2000
(STIM) New age snake oil is such a pain to clean out of your motherboard.
Please Captain, Not in Front of the Klingons
(STIM) The Star Trek universe doesn't end at the gates of Paramount. Some fan fiction likes to play with the show's characters and their sex lives. Just how far will Captain Kirk go to save his friend Spock from the Pon Farr ("the fever")?
No Tech Interactive
(STIM) Tired of hearing about interactive television? Try a little "Elvis Viewing."
Bedtime for Bohemia
(STIM) In a hotbed of spooks and politicos, some bohos take to the airwaves in their pajamas.
Airwave Anarchy
(STIM) An interview with pirate radio guru Andrew Yoder.
Hard-Nosed Cops
(Wired) What kind of robot cops are on the beat today? What about in the near future?
Tired: Nasa Wired: Amateurs
(Wired) If commercial launch vehicles continue getting smaller and amateur rockets keep getting bigger, how soon before the two converge?
The Desire to be Wired
(Wired) Is brain piercing the ultimate "cyber" kink? Some neurohackers seem to think so.
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