Competition

  • The urge to compete

    No one wants to be a loser, but you don't have to be first in line. There is grace afoot in the world and it will find you.
    By Garrison Keillor April 9, 2008

  • Older women leave young'uns in the dust

    Are younger women slower runners because they're psyching themselves out?
    By Carol Lloyd August 31, 2007

  • My best girlfriend and I are competing for men

    We're playing the Man Game. I'm concerned about the implications -- and I'm concerned about losing!
    By Cary Tennis March 23, 2007

  • The great debate

    At the world championships of high school debate, teenage Demosthenes spouted off about sex, politics and house parties.
    By Mark Oppenheimer April 10, 2006

  • Chips ahoy

    AMD competes with Intel, and the public wins. The right Microsoft antitrust settlement can bring the same energy back to the software market.
    By Scott Rosenberg January 16, 2002

  • Save Java!

    Can computer makers and rebel programmers stop Microsoft from cutting off the programming language's air supply?
    By Damien Cave July 24, 2001

  • 21st Challenge No. 39 Results

    Famous quotations on shuffle play.
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau December 18, 2000

  • 21st Challenge No. 39

    The New Word Order -- "shuffle play" fun with sentences.
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau December 1, 2000

  • 21st Challenge No. 38 Results

    The secret life of three-letter acronyms.
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau November 17, 2000

  • 21st Challenge No. 38

    The secret life of three-letter acronyms.
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau November 3, 2000

  • 21st Challenge No. 37 results

    New devices to measure bombast, pet stress, beauty and other imponderables.
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau October 20, 2000

  • 21st Challenge No. 37

    Measure for measure: Gizmos to gauge things hitherto unquantified.
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau October 6, 2000

  • Dot what?

    New top-level domain ideas for fun and profit -- or, well, at least fun.
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau September 15, 2000

  • Cramming for kindergarten

    I tutor 3-year-olds to crush the competition.
    By Theresa Heim September 6, 2000

  • 21st Challenge No. 36

    Dot what? New top-level domain names for fun, if not profit.
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau September 1, 2000

  • 21st Challenge No. 35 Results

    Practice random acts of brevity: What happens when politicians are limited to five words?
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau August 23, 2000

  • 21st Challenge No. 35

    Practice random acts of brevity
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau August 4, 2000

  • 21st Challenge No. 34 Results

    "Pink slips blossoming in Mountain View" and other haiku for the dot-com downturn.
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau July 25, 2000

  • 21st Challenge No. 34

    Dot-com rise-and-fall haiku.
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau June 30, 2000

  • 21st Challenge No. 33 Results

    "Warning: Exiting womb" and other real-life dialog box alerts.
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau May 6, 2000

  • 21st Challenge No. 33

    Real-life dialog-box alerts: Are you sure you want to ...?
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau April 22, 2000

  • 21st Challenge No. 32 Results

    Within every tech company's name there lurks a hilarious acronym.
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau April 8, 2000

  • 21st Challenge No. 32

    Credos of the high-tech world -- unencrypted!
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau March 25, 2000

  • 21st Challenge No. 31 Results

    "Pez Dispens'd" and other couplets in praise of tech gadgets.
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau March 11, 2000

  • Hooked on tutoring

    After-school programs bleed Mom and Dad while dissing Junior's teachers.
    By Catherine Davis February 29, 2000
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