Selected Articles&Essays

The Digital Gold Rush (Review of “The Nudist on the Late Shift"), The Wall Street Journal August 1999. Original.
Silicon Valley, Inc., San Jose Mercury April 1998. Prescient anticipation of the dot.com demise of Silicon Valley.
Hello, Are You Human?, Salon.com August 2000. Cocktail hour inversion of the Turing test.
Aminopop.com, "What's Fun About Biotech", August 2007. Ongoing popular science blog focusing on Biotechnology.
A New Lease On Life, DC City Paper September 2003. Prescient article anticipating the subprime meltdown.
Odd Jobs, Rhode Island Monthly January 2002. Survey of unusual occupations. Original layout.
Howl.com, Salon.com March 2000. Fin-de-millennium rant, with apologies to Allen Ginsberg. 
The Elements of Style: Unix as Literature, Performance Computing September 1998. Broadly reprinted cult Unix piece. 
Martin Luther, Meet Linus Torvalds, Salon.com November 1998. Tongue-in-cheek perspective on Open Source. 
Holy Pastry, Salon.com March 2000. Comic essay on doughnuts and metaphysics. Original draft.
Finding a Way, The Surfer's Journal August 1999. Call for a more open-ended surf culture. Text version.
Open Source Over There, O'Reilly.com February 1999. European Open Source trends.
Whence the Source, O'Reilly.com March 1999. Open Source cultural tensions explained.
It's a Bubble, All Right (Review of "Irrational Exuberance"), Salon.com May 2000.
Should Your Boss Know About Those Visits to the Shrink? (Review of "Database Nation"), Salon.com February 2000.
The Essence of Geekdom (Review of "Geeks"), Salon.com February 2000.
Last Train to Cluesville (Review of "The Cluetrain Manifesto"), Salon.com January 2000.
Legends in Their Own Minds (Review of "High Stakes, No Prisoners", "Renegades of The Empire"), Salon.com December 1999.
The Internet Illusion (Review of "The Control Revolution"), Salon.com November 1999.
Everyman's E-Commerce (Review of "StrikingItRich.com"), Salon.com November 1999.
A Tournament of Apes (Review of "The Gorilla Game"), Salon.com September 1999.
The Archaeology of Secrets (Review of "The Code Book") October 1999.
E*Scatology, South by Southwest Film Festival, March 2000. Why the New Economy was the real millennial cult.
Of Greed, Technolibertarianism and Geek Omnipotence (Interview with Paulina Borsook), Salon.com May 2000. 
An Undying Affection, O'Reilly.com February 1999. Valentine's Day homage to Unix.
Pink Slips and Spam, Dr. Seuss/Dot.bomb eulogy at the South by Southwest Film Festival March 2001. MP3 Recording.
Notes on the Second Open Source Summit, Slashdot June 1999. Biased report on Open Source summit meeting.
Infant Squirrel Rehabilitation: A Recipe, August 2007. Because the little creatures need help sometimes (PDF).
The Comic Bardo Thodol, July 2008. The Tibetan Book of The Dead, comically condensed using Comic Life.