Stories by Annalee Newitz
When I was a student, I never questioned the idea that basic science education was for other people, the ones who were destined to be engineers or lab geeks.
Posted on Feb 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet
You know those emails with URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSITION in the subject line and weirdly translated details of shady "fund transfers" and the like? I just got a very strange one.
Posted on Feb 11, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Bioinformaticians, people decoding the human genome, are to genetic engineering as a peacenik named Einstein was to the atomic bomb -- they seem to not understand the social ramifications of their pure research.
Posted on Feb 4, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Diesel is currently advertising its clothes with sexy robot zombie models: beautiful young things dressed in Diesel, their eyes glassy, faces made up to look like soft plastic.
Posted on Jan 29, 2002, Source: AlterNet
What we want out of people these days is the same thing we want from our computer accessories: no installation required, no introductions or context necessary to interact with them.
Posted on Jan 22, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Erotic artist Barbara Nitke has filed a legal complaint againt the Communications Decency Act, claiming that its anti-obscenity clauses violate the First Amendment.
Posted on Jan 14, 2002, Source: AlterNet
A geek has the power to bootstrap, to escape, to become something other than somebody's wife, a soccer mom, a maid, or a smudge on the payroll of a dying industry.
Posted on Jan 7, 2002, Source: AlterNet
It is black, muscular, alien. I've seen pictures of it in motion on TV -- its skin opens up into two wound-slits and leaks green light in the shape of an X.
Posted on Dec 18, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The world-renowned MIT Media Lab has just unveiled its latest project, the Erotic Computation Group, studying everything from digital erotica to sex robots. Well, at least, they would like to...
Posted on Dec 11, 2001, Source: AlterNet
People need real anonymity, especially now that what you do online can get you thrown in jail and branded a terrorist.
Posted on Dec 4, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Hagrid was just about to rescue Harry Potter when the film stopped rolling and the PA announced, "An emergency has been reported. Please walk out of the nearest exit." We all thought the same thing -- oh God, another attack.
Posted on Nov 27, 2001, Source: AlterNet
All of the glamour and intrigue that came with the job of being a network administrator died along with the dot-coms.
Posted on Nov 20, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The open source operating system that was supposed to take over the world has been creeping back underground amid news that Microsoft would retain monopolistic power.
Posted on Nov 14, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The real glory of personal Web pages is that no matter how stupid they are, you just can't look away. Nothing is more interesting than someone else's private details.
Posted on Nov 5, 2001, Source: AlterNet
If you've broken into and "damaged" any Net-connected computer within the last eight years, you are now deemed a terrorist. Well, I am officially a terrorist.
Posted on Oct 29, 2001, Source: AlterNet
For the "Bert is Evil" Web site that featured pictures of Osama bin Laden, patriotism has meant self-censorship. After all, it's what the big media outlets are doing.
Posted on Oct 22, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Late last week, some friends and I plunged headlong into the digital social scene and found a major schism between political hackers and dot-com bubbleheads.
Posted on Oct 16, 2001, Source: AlterNet
A brief guide to digital anarchy.
Posted on Oct 8, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The mantra, "Don't believe everything you read online," is even more important now that war-time propaganda is circulating through all media.
Posted on Oct 2, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Ursula Le Guin's utopian and social-protest science fiction has shown alternative perspectives on everything from religion and death to war and terrorism.
Posted on Sep 25, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Authorities say terrorists' plans may have been carried out through the Internet, prompting the government to clamp down on the World Wide Web.
Posted on Sep 17, 2001, Source: AlterNet
During my summer vacation I met a Cylon, had sex with Wonder Woman, and uncovered a vast conspiracy to destroy geek culture as we know it. Yes, I went to DragonCon.
Posted on Sep 10, 2001, Source: AlterNet
For an annual fee of just 59 bucks, you can own a domain name with .sex at the end of it, says dotsex.com, and get yourself tons and tons of traffic. Is it a bogus offer?
Posted on Sep 4, 2001, Source: AlterNet
I was plunged into geek space, a familiar social location where we could talk to our heart's content about drivers and free software and visualization programs for cell biologists.
Posted on Aug 28, 2001, Source: AlterNet
For people who suffer from acute video game nostalgia or who revel in arcane historical knowledge, there is almost no mystery greater than what exactly happened to the game Ms. Gorf.
Posted on Aug 20, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The geeky, sexy world of author Cecilia Tan comes to light in her latest sci-fi/erotica novel, "The Velderet."
Posted on Aug 14, 2001, Source: Metro Silicon Valley
Patents on protiens and genes that make up the human genome have biopunks up in arms as corporations and public interestes vie for our genetic future.
Posted on Aug 6, 2001, Source: Metro Silicon Valley
Despite escalating protests, Russian techie Dmitry Sklyarov is still in jail, arrested by the FBI because he criticized the corporate control of books.
Posted on Jul 31, 2001, Source: Metro Silicon Valley
When I got my electric sex toy kit from Blowfish.com, I turned into the porn version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, becoming my own depraved experimental subject.
Posted on Jul 24, 2001, Source: Metro Silicon Valley
Cellphone pornography is set to be the next wave of adult techno-entertainment. Too bad its creators haven't learned from history.
Posted on Jun 5, 2001, Source: Salon
There's a glamorous new website called fuckedcompany.com, which offers what it calls "the dotcom dead pool." Users can wager on what dotcom companies are about to die, and each time you're right, you get a higher score.
Posted on Jun 23, 2000, Source: Metro Silicon Valley
If code is free, why not me? Some open-source geeks are as open-minded about sex as they are about hacking.
Posted on May 31, 2000, Source: Salon
Government "sexperts" have approved a goofy new gadget in female orgasm technology. Real women will tell you that there are hundreds of better products out there.
Posted on May 16, 2000, Source: Metro Silicon Valley
"I don't want to be a slave to Wall Street's distractions. If the market is going to go crazy, then it needs to be locked up; it shouldn't be running the world and breaking our collective hearts."
Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: Metro Silicon Valley
"Normally, I don't like to complain about gender crap, because then I become 'a woman' who 'has issues' or something retro-1970s like that. See, I'd rather be a geek than a girl. But I hate having to make that choice."
Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: deleted
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