Adam’s humorous, but shallow take on the business world, or at least the part of it filled with cubicles and engineering teams. Adams is funny, but the humor never really goes beyond poking fun at the status quo. Strangely, he never seems to advise *getting out* of it, as he himself did.
A fairly funny spoof about alien encounters and secret government programs.
Neil Gaiman writes good stories. You should read one.
Apparently I read this, but I have absolutely no memory of it.
Humorist O’Rourke takes a look at capitalism and socialism using different geographical settings as examples. O’Rourke is pretty funny, but not tremendously so.
I like Jon Katz. He’s idealistic and a bit breathless in his support of “cyberculture”, but at least he takes a stand and can write well. I also enjoyed his contributions to Slashdot, despite the thrashing he often received there. And anybody opposed to William Bennett gets my vote.
This is Katz’s take on the difference between “old” and “new” media and the potential effects the internet will have on free speech and democracy.
A brilliant and crushing essay about our ridiculous media culture.
The strange story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary.