July 26, 2001 - The Humiliation Virus - By Damien Cave and Katharine Mieszkowski. How Sircam can help turn your most private documents into a worldwide joke.  Sending a virus to friends, co-workers and family can be an exercise in humiliation. But Sircam, the latest sickness spreading on the Net, creates a whole new way to embarrass yourself online...

  July 23, 2001 - Seventeen years old and state of the art - By Evan Leibovitch, Linux 10:43 AM PT. Sunday was a time for me to try things that were both old and new. It was my first time making my own sushi, and finally throwing the switch on Mutt, my old-new computer. Old, because it's made up of parts I'd collected over my travels, a product of years of taking what others would throw away. New, because it was being loaded with the freshest software releases...

July 10, 2001 - Playing God on No Sleep - "Isn't motherhood grand? Do you want the real answer or the official Hallmark-card version? NEWSWEEK - July 2 issue -  So a woman walks into a pediatrician's office. She's tired, she's hot and she's been up all night throwing sheets into the washer because the smaller of her two boys has projectile vomiting so severe it looks like a special effect from "The Exorcist." Oh, and she's nauseated, too, because since she already has two kids under the age of 5 it made perfect sense to have another, and she's four months pregnant. In the doctor's waiting room, which sounds like a cross between an orchestra tuning loudly and a 747 taking off, there is a cross-stitched sampler on the wall. It says GOD COULD NOT BE EVERYWHERE SO HE MADE MOTHERS..."

  July 23, 2001 - Why members of the tech elite have clout - By John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine, 5:22 AM PT COMMENTARY--The group could be called the Internet Class, the Digital Age Workers, or even the Digerati--a term popularized by writer/agent John Brockman in his book of the same title, which profiles the elite of the technology world. In the newest sense of the term, if you are reading this column, you would quite likely be categorized as one of the digerati. And apparently, you are about to become important, as a group, to politicos. Maybe now is the time to organize into a massive pressure group...