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Review of Bruce Jenners Decathlon Lord Lansdowne Jan 20, 1997 Article 333
Wired Women on the Bus Lord Lansdowne Feb  3, 1997 Article 338
For General Distro Feb 17, 1997 Article 493
How *NOT* To Be a Newbie Lilith DemHareIs Feb 24, 1997 Article 348
BILL GATES: Politically Incorrect Things He Could Say Jester Mar 10, 1997 Article 358
Readers' Letters CoN Staff Mar 25, 1997 Article 365
What happened to the ARPANET? Mar 25, 1997 Article 366
Do you really think that ICQ is better than IRC? Emanuela Corso May 26, 1997 Article 399
NOSMOKE.EXE Arbi Arzoumani Jul 28, 1997 Article 435
CoN Eireann: Computers make you brain dead Colin B. Sep 15, 1997 Article 457
McAfee-Question : Is Windows a virus? Jan 12, 1998 Article 213
Bill Gates and IE The alarmingly uneventful Adventures of 'sum-fink from my hed' (Milkshake) Jan 26, 1998 Article 219
Editorial CoN Staff Feb 23, 1998 Article 225
C++ is a waste of time Mar  9, 1998 Article 321
It's a Windows World MarXidad May 12, 1998 Article 250
ON THE EVE OF THE FUTURE Joe Tomorrow Feb  8, 1999 Article 128
BOFH the BOFH Nov 29, 1999 Article 198
Editorial CoN Staff Feb 11, 2002 Article 516
Why I Hate Computers John Iadipaolo Sep 23, 2002 Article 563
I Copied a File Jester Sep 23, 2002 Article 564
Newbie Evolution Lilith DemHareIs Jan 29, 2003 Article 582
Computer Backup Lilith DemHareIs Jun  2, 2003 Article 614
My Mother is Almost Online Jester Feb 16, 2004 Article 678
Odyssey of the Vault Dweller Leo N. May 24, 2005 Article 738
CoN - nasty at the CeBIT Jakob Straub Apr  5, 2006 Article 769
A Thought on the Modern Computing Chris Cummer Dec 17, 2007 Article 785
Really boring books (You have to read anyway): Communist Manifesto David Dylan Apr 16, 2010 Article 829
Why I Married a Geek Le Brunette Smurfette Feb 23, 2012 Article 849
Apple announces new iMac capnasty Jan  8, 2002 News 944
Xbox Linux jake.the.snake Jan 27, 2006 News 104
How to Fix a Stuck Pixel on an LCD Monitor capnasty Feb  5, 2006 News 95
Creating an HPC/Beowulf Cluster the Easy Way capnasty Feb  7, 2006 News 91
Code like a girl jake.the.snake Mar 31, 2006 News 33
RC Planes for Afghanistan capnasty Aug 28, 2007 News 1696
When Cats Use a Mac capnasty Oct 15, 2007 News 1713
The Mechanical Battery capnasty Oct 19, 2007 News 1714
The Leopard is out capnasty Nov  5, 2007 News 1719
Champion Robot Car Declared Alan Nov  6, 2007 News 1720
Clothing for the Tech Obsessed capnasty Nov 30, 2007 News 1736
The One Good Thing About the Earthquake in China and Why I’ll Be Going to Hell capnasty May 23, 2008 News 1742
The 10 Most Annoying Habits of Technology Companies capnasty May 25, 2008 News 1744
Got an old X-box lying around? capnasty May 26, 2008 News 1745
Bill Gates stops using Facebook capnasty May 27, 2008 News 1746
Playing GTA IV drunk capnasty May 27, 2008 News 1747
Before we had Photoshop... capnasty Jun 13, 2008 News 1772
Linux in the Classroom capnasty Jun 15, 2008 News 1775
Why Global Hackers Are Nearly Impossible to Catch capnasty Jun 20, 2008 News 1785
Bill Gates retires capnasty Jun 26, 2008 News 1793
Classic Clips: Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft Over XP Mnemonic Jun 26, 2008 News 1794
How to Prevent a Coffee Shop Wi-Fi Attack capnasty Aug  9, 2008 News 1806
Microsoft: here we go again. capnasty Aug 18, 2008 News 1818
Being Enviro-Friendly Is Good for Business capnasty Sep 15, 2008 News 1846
2008 one second longer capnasty Dec 16, 2008 News 1980
Smash Your Hard-Disk to Smithereens capnasty Jan  9, 2009 News 2028
What a Windows 7 BSOD Looks Like capnasty Jan 18, 2009 News 2034
1234567890 Day capnasty Feb 13, 2009 News 2101
Did Google Earth find Atlantis? capnasty Mar  6, 2009 News 2134
New Botnet Runs on DSL Modems and Routers capnasty Apr  9, 2009 News 2206
Tux Fleets of USB Keys to Boldly Go Where No Windows Has Gone Before capnasty Apr 10, 2009 News 1672
Band of Geeks Play iPhones, Not Instruments capnasty Apr 15, 2009 News 2259
Microsoft Vista Tiny capnasty Apr 17, 2009 News 2226
The Secret History of Silicon Valley capnasty May  4, 2009 News 2272
Google to launch operating system capnasty Jul  8, 2009 News 2399
The Amazing World of Version Numbers capnasty Jul 23, 2009 News 2413
Linux slips into Microsoft's warm, deadly embrace capnasty Jul 27, 2009 News 2450
Russia's President says country's ranking 'very difficult' when compared with America's capnasty Jul 30, 2009 News 2458
World's first computer may be even older than thought capnasty Aug  1, 2009 News 2466
Why don't I need Word any more capnasty Aug  5, 2009 News 2471
10 IT flame wars that will never go away capnasty Aug  8, 2009 News 2478
40 years of Unix capnasty Aug 20, 2009 News 2522
Ownership of Unix copyright headed to trial capnasty Aug 25, 2009 News 2534
Hardware Hackers Create a Modular Motherboard capnasty Aug 28, 2009 News 2525
Let the Swedes Show You How capnasty Sep  1, 2009 News 2542
Quantum computer slips onto chips capnasty Sep  5, 2009 News 2569
Reboot for UK's 'oldest' computer capnasty Sep  9, 2009 News 2565
Engineering motivation into artificial intelligence capnasty Sep 10, 2009 News 2589
The unspoken truth about managing geeks capnasty Sep 17, 2009 News 2592
The truth about Windows users capnasty Sep 19, 2009 News 2603
Linux is bloated capnasty Sep 22, 2009 News 2666
Windows works for me. But I'd never recommend it to anybody else, ever. capnasty Oct  6, 2009 News 2703
Open Source Makes Big Gains at the London Stock Exchange capnasty Oct  7, 2009 News 2708
Refused entry to a Cineworld cinema because he had a laptop capnasty Oct 15, 2009 News 2754
Research Group Uses Sonar for Computer Power Management capnasty Oct 16, 2009 News 2760
Apple Seeks Patent on Operating System Advertising capnasty Oct 23, 2009 News 2806
Ninite: the easiest way to get apps capnasty Oct 26, 2009 News 2819
Cyberterror Not a Credible Threat canasty Oct 27, 2009 News 2822
10/GUI capnasty Oct 29, 2009 News 2796
Mechanical computer uses matchboxes and beans to learn Tic-Tac-Toe capnasty Nov  2, 2009 News 2862
10 Geeky Laws That Should Exist, But Don't capnasty Nov 11, 2009 News 1679
Microsoft Patents The Sudo Command capnasty Nov 12, 2009 News 781
147,456 computer processors to think like a (slow) cat capnasty Nov 18, 2009 News 2935
How to build your very own PS3-powered super-computer cluster capnasty Nov 29, 2009 News 2965
How the Computer Graphics From a Long, Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away Were Made capnasty Nov 29, 2009 News 2938
Steve Ballmer Rendered in BSODs capnasty Dec 14, 2009 News 3029
Hewlett Packard's Racist Webcam capnasty Dec 23, 2009 News 3078
Commodore 64 Javascript Emulator capnasty Jan 18, 2010 News 3130
Apple iPad Just Tried To Assassinate Laptops capnasty Jan 27, 2010 News 3187
Apple's Secret? It Tells Us What We Should Love capnasty Jan 28, 2010 News 3190
The iPad: An Attractive, Thoughtfully Designed, Deeply Cynical Thing capnasty Feb 16, 2010 News 3202
A 19th-Century Mathematician Finally Proves Himself capnasty Feb 18, 2010 News 3022
Spying on teenagers? Not pervy if school does it... CoN Staff Feb 19, 2010 News 3262
No More Perks: Coffee Shops Pull the Plug on Laptop Users capnasty Feb 20, 2010 News 3263
Why Can't PCs Work More Like iPhones? capnasty Feb 26, 2010 News 3288
The Secret Origin of Microsoft Windows capnasty Mar 12, 2010 News 3350
Laptops Evicted from Lecture Halls capnasty Mar 12, 2010 News 3349
Couch Multitasking No Longer Just for Nerds capnasty Mar 22, 2010 News 3392
Can Being Green Be as Simple as Changing Your Font? capnasty Apr 15, 2010 News 3492
The Porn Virus capnasty Apr 15, 2010 News 3500
A Modernized Turing Machine capnasty Apr 16, 2010 News 3471
Brain Games Don't Make You Smarter capnasty Apr 21, 2010 News 3524
Why You Should Stop Using Ubuntu Linux and Move Back to Debian capnasty Apr 24, 2010 News 3534
Can You Survive #Apple's Benevolent Dictatorship? (RT @OpenAttitude) capnasty Apr 25, 2010 News 3545
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint Le Brunette Smurfette Apr 27, 2010 News 3555
Goodbye Floppy Disk and Thank You for All The Files capnasty Apr 27, 2010 News 3556
How I Met Your Motherboard capnasty Apr 27, 2010 News 3560
Ubuntu is a Poor Standard Bearer for Linux capnasty Apr 29, 2010 News 3577
Who Keeps Buying All These Floppy Disks? capnasty May  1, 2010 News 3567
Turn Your iPad Into a Netbook capnasty May 16, 2010 News 3661
Curated Computing: Post iPad Computers capnasty May 16, 2010 News 3658
If TV's LOST Was a 1987 Point-and-Click Computer Game capnasty Jun  5, 2010 News 3771
The Era of the Injectable Bio-Computers capnasty Jun  7, 2010 News 3758
You Couldn't Pay Me to Work for Ballmer capnasty Jun  8, 2010 News 3788
The Macintosh Classic iPad Stand capnasty Jun 23, 2010 News 3830
The $37 Laptop. For Real capnasty Jun 30, 2010 News 3906
Microsoft Heading the Way of the Dinosaur Sharp Parente Jul  9, 2010 News 3959
Math from the Past capnasty Aug 12, 2010 News 4155
How a 16-yo Kid Made His First Million Dollars Following His Hero, Steve Jobs capnasty Aug 13, 2010 News 4181
Building A Working Computer Inside A Video Game capnasty Oct  4, 2010 News 4439
A Visual Study of the Computer GUI in Cinema capnasty Oct  8, 2010 News 4452
Computers, Starships and 8-Miles of Railroad Track: The Things People Build with Minecraft Leo N. Oct 12, 2010 News 4470
Uh Oh. The Robots Are Beginning to Learn capnasty Oct 21, 2010 News 4490
The New MacBook Air Is Good Enough to be Your Main Computer capnasty Oct 26, 2010 News 4546
How Do You Like Your Testicles Done? capnasty Nov  9, 2010 News 4598
Protect Your Data During U.S. Border Searches capnasty Nov 23, 2010 News 4662
Real Time Lightsaber on the Kinect on PC capnasty Nov 29, 2010 News 4676
How a Computer Worm Crippled Iran's Nuclear Weapon Ambitions capnasty Nov 30, 2010 News 4680
NEVER COMMENT LIKE THIS ON GOOGLE AGAIN capnasty Dec 10, 2010 News 4719
Inside the Business of Malware capnasty Dec 21, 2010 News 4762
The New Commodore C-64, Three Computers in One (via @mcleodg) capnasty Dec 27, 2010 News 4783
Metagames: Playing Games That Are About... Games (via @BoingBoing) capnasty Feb 12, 2011 News 4933
Forget Google -- it's Apple That is Turning into the Evil Empire capnasty Mar 14, 2011 News 5079
Today is World Backup Day 2011 capnasty Mar 31, 2011 News 5159
How a $200 Laptop Beats a $500 Tablet capnasty Apr  7, 2011 News 5185
The Story of Linux: Commemorating 20 Years of the Linux Operating System capnasty Apr  8, 2011 News 5192
The Economist: Apple's User-Friendliness a Form of iFascism capnasty Apr 11, 2011 News 5207
Windows XP Death Countdown capnasty Apr 23, 2011 News 5280
Pica Pic: Digitalised Collection of Hand-held Electronic Games capnasty Apr 25, 2011 News 5283
Powerful $25 Portable Computer the Size of a USB Key capnasty May 12, 2011 News 5379
Canadian University Showcases Flexible Paper Computer capnasty May 17, 2011 News 5414
A List of Unusual Software Bugs capnasty May 20, 2011 News 5318
The Binary Low Table: Furniture Made Out of Obsolete Computer Parts capnasty May 25, 2011 News 5187
Tiny Yet Functional Atari 810 Disk Drive capnasty Jun  3, 2011 News 5413
Teh Geek Life: Indecision CoN Staff Jun 29, 2011 News 5501
Teh Geek Life: Things That Face Our Generation capnasty Jul  7, 2011 News 5533
Mike Knuepfel's Keyboard Frequency Sculpture capnasty Jul 11, 2011 News 5518
Dumpster Drive: Recycling Computer Files capnasty Jul 14, 2011 News 5532
Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus capnasty Jul 26, 2011 News 5583
Happy Birthday: the Personal Computer Turns 30 capnasty Aug 12, 2011 News 5670
According to IBM, the End of the PC Era is Already Here capnasty Aug 15, 2011 News 5682
Steve Jobs Resigns from Apple capnasty Aug 24, 2011 News 5717
Steve Jobs, the Prolific Patentee capnasty Sep  6, 2011 News 5761
If Computer Problems Were Real capnasty Oct  1, 2011 News 5874
Playing Star Wars' Imperial March Using Two Floppy Drives capnasty Oct  3, 2011 News 5877
Shit That Siri Says capnasty Oct 14, 2011 News 5937
Paul Allen: The Singularity Isn't Near capnasty Oct 15, 2011 News 5932
The Psychology Behind Our Screen Savers capnasty Nov  8, 2011 News 6031
How to Build a Computer Model of God capnasty Nov 20, 2011 News 6075
Pixelated Fireplace capnasty Jan  3, 2012 News 6247
Once Upon: 1997 Versions of Google+, YouTube and Facebook capnasty Jan  4, 2012 News 6250
NASA Launches Open Source Projects capnasty Jan  7, 2012 News 6267
The Restart Page: Free, Unlimited Rebooting Experience from Vintage Operating Systems capnasty Jan  8, 2012 News 6274
When Computer Viruses Infect Worms by Mistake capnasty Jan 30, 2012 News 6356
IRL - In Real Life: Short, Light-hearted Documentary Looks at the Effects of World of Warcraft Addiction capnasty Feb  3, 2012 News 6369
Chain of Fools: Upgrading Through Every Version of Windows capnasty Feb 23, 2012 News 5030
Microsoft Labs' Transparent 3D Monitor capnasty Mar  2, 2012 News 6477
Hum Blank: the USB Cork Stopper Memory Stick capnasty Mar  9, 2012 News 6493
Speech Synthesizer in 1k of Javascript capnasty Mar 19, 2012 News 6530
Fluid Windows capnasty Mar 26, 2012 News 6552
Building the Perfect, Fully-Automated City of the Future capnasty May  4, 2012 News 6742
Google's Blocky: a Graphical Programming Language capnasty Jun  5, 2012 News 6879
clippy.js: JavaScript Implementation of Microsoft's Paperclip Assistant capnasty Jun  5, 2012 News 6877
The Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers capnasty Jun  8, 2012 News 6888
LEGO Turing Machine capnasty Jun 19, 2012 News 6935
Surface, Microsoft's New Tablet Computer capnasty Jun 20, 2012 News 6941
FuckItJS: the Original Javascript Error Steamroller capnasty Jun 26, 2012 News 6961
Google's Artificial Brain Recognizes Cat Videos All On Its Own capnasty Jun 28, 2012 News 6973
Stanford University Simulates an Entire Organism Using Software capnasty Jul 21, 2012 News 7071
How Social Engineering, Not Hacking, Got Hackers Into Mat Honan's iPhone, iBook, iPad, Gmail, Twitter... capnasty Aug  7, 2012 News 7145
Trading Software Glitch Wipes a 17-Year-Old Firm in Under 1 Hour capnasty Aug 14, 2012 News 7166
Homemade Flight Simulator Built in the Nose of a Real 737 capnasty Aug 23, 2012 News 7202
Logitech's Washable Keyboard capnasty Aug 24, 2012 News 7209
Chameleon Clock capnasty Sep  5, 2012 News 7254
Foundation Laptop Stand: Laptop Stand Made out of Concrete capnasty Sep  6, 2012 News 7261
Puzzle Keyboard: Concept Keyboard With Arrangeable Keys capnasty Oct 28, 2012 News 7469
IBM Develops Even Smaller Microprocessors Using Carbon Nanotubes capnasty Oct 29, 2012 News 7472
Apple ][ Emulated in HTML 5 capnasty Oct 29, 2012 News 7474
Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal “What the Fuck” Quetzal Lord Lansdowne Nov  2, 2012 News 7480
Windchime: Adding a Musical Dimension to the Act of Composing Written Text capnasty Nov  5, 2012 News 7500
JavaScript Machines: PC Simulation in a Browser capnasty Nov 19, 2012 News 7559
Turning Old Computer Memory into Christmas Ornaments capnasty Dec 12, 2012 News 7651
The iPad Mini is a Better Tablet than the Regular iPad capnasty Dec 16, 2012 News 7666
Carol of the Bells on Eight Floppy Drives capnasty Dec 25, 2012 News 7696
CuBox: Fully-Functional 5 Cubic Centimetres Computer capnasty Jan  8, 2013 News 7737
Instacode: Hipsterize Your Code Instantly capnasty Feb  1, 2013 News 7835
Storyboard: Converts Videos Into a Readable PDF Files capnasty Feb  1, 2013 News 7844
Playfun: Teaching Computers to Play Classic NES Games capnasty Apr 16, 2013 News 8126
Some of the World's Oldest Computers Still in Use Today capnasty Apr 18, 2013 News 8140
BitTorrent's Alternative to Dropbox Goes Public capnasty Apr 25, 2013 News 8161
IBM Makes a Stop Motion Movie Using Atoms capnasty May  3, 2013 News 8189
Los Alamos National Labs Has Been Running a Quantum Internet for 2 Years capnasty May  8, 2013 News 8209