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  • To catch a thief

    In this new 3-D game, the emphasis is on stealth instead of shooting.
  • Aliens blew up my garbage dump!

    SimCity is back -- and managing municipal utilities has never been so much fun.
  • Ethics of the cross hairs

    On your computer screen, which is worse -- blasting an alien or shooting a deer?
  • Are we having high-tech fun yet?

    With group activities and a gourmet menu, Entros joins the pack of game palaces for grown-ups.
  • Pod people

    Peapod, the online grocery service, sounds great -- but can it deliver?
  • Is Rio grand?

    With the new MP3 player, the future of online music distribution is here now -- it's just a bit slow.
  • Car talk

    Microsoft puts Windows on a diet so it can fit in your car radio -- and hold a conversation. A review of the Microsoft/Clarion AutoPC.
  • IMAX mates with T. Rex

    These dinosaurs are bigger and cooler than any you've ever seen before -- but they could use a better movie to star in.
  • Under the Microscope

    Ad-review site shines a bright light on the mysteries of Web banners.
  • I, robot? My robot!

    With Lego's new kit, you, too, can play God with a mechanical creature of your own design.
  • Six degrees to nowhere

    A Web site that connects you to everyone you don't need to know.
  • Internet U.

    A new documentary, 'net.learning,' looks at the benefits and hazards of the Net as global lecture hall.
  • Master of allusion

    When a philosopher creates a video game about Vegas, the payoff is fascinating but elusive.
  • Paul is live

    An interactive drama about a dead rock star makes a long-delayed debut.
  • Lights, camera, point, click, action!

    Some subjects -- like filmmaking -- were made for educational multimedia
  • Shoot to thrill

    "Unreal" takes the first-person shooter game to the next graphic level. But is that enough?
  • User-friendly?

    Don't throw away Windows yet, a test of three approaches to installing Linux suggests.
  • Site of a thousand dances

    At Cductive, dance-music fans get to assemble their favorite tracks off wax.
  • Interstellar fireworks

    When a science-fiction game is as absorbing as "Starcraft," who needs the movie version?
  • Post no shills

    With its new Web cartoon "Super Postal Workers," has the USPS lost its mind?
  • Reviews: Folk rock of ages

    Roger McGuinn's Web site is an experiment in communal musical memory
  • Reviews: Getting MUDdy with Xena

    A new online game lets fans of the TV show explore their textual fantasies.
  • Reviews: The little browser that could

    Move over Microsoft and Netscape -- opera is coming to town.
  • Beck to the future

    Defying copyright, purveyors of "recombinant music" use the Net to make new sounds out of old shards.
  • Tricks of the trade

    A Web radio show gives porn-site webmasters a place to talk shop and schmooze.
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