New York Times technology correspondent
Former Newsweek technology writer
Author, Gearheads
Humongous Brad Stone, porn star
Chairman of Families Worldwide
Garden landscape equipment firm
Member, Sly and the Family Stone
Jennifer Granick, Executive Director Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society
Loki the Schnoodle, hedonist and layabout
Mr. Boodles, neighborhood security
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Unmasking Fake Steve, from the August 6th New York Times.
Web Site for Teenagers Has X-Rated Link, from the July 11 New York Times.
The Mystery of the Missing Car, from the August 2006 issue of Wired magazine.
Netflix Guilt, from the July 12th Plain Text on Newsweek.com.
The podcast JapanesePod101 helped us linguistically limp our way through Japan over the last two months. In my latest column on Newsweek.com, I write about the show and the growing world of language lessons for your iPod.
You probably already knew, or suspected, about the intimacies of Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker in the halls of the Jedi temple; the coinoitering of Harry Potter and Malfoy when the lights go out at Hogwarts; and the love-that-dare-not-speak-its-name between Middle Earth’s Aragorn and Boromir. This week, Jen further illuminates those romances, and Japan’s homoerotic manga genre of Yaoi, in her Wired News column.
Jen believes my Newsweek column, “Japan’s Love Affair with Androids” doesn’t tell the whole story: our love affair with androids. She’s posted a comrephensive Flickr set of our robotic adventures around the country.
A tour through the world of Japanese humanoid robots, in my Newsweek online column this week. A version of the story will also appear in next week’s Newsweek International.