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April 2008 The Audacity of Math Scratching and Baseball: The Tradition Continues Beijing 2008: The Earthy Games Jose Canseco: 15 Minutes Past the Hour
March 2008 Jose Canseco Reviewed: With Spoilers The Spitzer Scandal Reviewed Attack of the TV Clones Phoning it in for the Candidates
February 2008 Other Great Senatorial Moments in Sports Obama: Campaigning to the Choir
January 2008 Performance Enhancement Hits Hollywood Dry Cleaners for Hillary Chuck Norris for Secretary of Defense Vacationing with the Candidates
The Globe and Mail
Love you, hate your president
The Christian Science Monitor
A Total Failure on Facebook
December 2007 Santa's Archives More Smart Shows Expected as Reality Writer's Strike Enters Sixth Week
November 2007 Internet May Be Full by 2010; This Column Not Helping Dieting for Dollars The Belichick Era: A Revisionist History
October 2007 Feeding America One Base at a Time The Road to the White House and/or Nashua
September 2007 The Rise of the Loonie (New!) Google Stalk
August 2007 Here's to Moving Day Rockets in the Sky: Or the Weather of the XXIX Olympiad
July 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Lawyers The Seven Tourist Traps of the World
June 2007 A Nickel for Your Thoughts Paris, Transformed
May 2007 Get Them Young: TV Viewing among Infants Lessons from Neuromarketing
April 2007 "Take My Wife, Please!" Sorry I Missed Your E-mail
March 2007 Ant Angst and Other Lessons of Science Future Plans: Searching for Big Foot Don't Mess with the Spreadsheet
February 2007 Do Not Disturb the Hat Watching the Commercials for the Game
January 2007 The First 100 Hours Just Answer These Questions, and Nobody Will Get Hurt
Yesterday's Primary
WBUR Radio Boston (NPR)
Yesterday's Primary As read by me during "Morning Edition."
Boston Sports Review
The El Guapo/Obama Ticket The Impossible Dream … In Full Technicolor Big Papi: Questions for Book Clubs Betting on the Sox Confessions of a Baseball Fan Pesky's Pole Position Gifts for the Men Who Have it All Schilling for Senate Daisuke Matsuzaka: Lost in Translation... in a Good Way
ComputorEdge
HD on the Cheap and on the Go Putting the You Back Into Usury
December 2006 Runners-up of the Year The Gift That Keeps Being Given
November 2006 Birth of a Computer
October 2006 Killing the Eco-Friendly Way
September 2006 I is for iPod who Died of Ennui
August 2006 Adventures of a Vintage Ballist Katie Couric Reporting YouTube Fall Preview
July 2006 Reviews of Leftover Food From Meetings I Did Not Attend Headbutts, Flopping, and Astrology
June 2006 Football of a Different Sort Ideal Day
May 2006 How Do You Spell Overkill? Yum! I Say
April 2006 My Birthday is Worse Than Yours
March 2006 The New World of Online Television!
February 2006 Gun-Wielding Olympians on Drugs: The Biathlon Doping Controversy
January 2006 Football for the Famous Gains Across Entire Irritability Sector
Heeding the Siren's Call of Free Food in the Office Craig's List: Lessons for a New Bond Name That Caller
The Boston Herald
Reprieve for the Blog Bleary
Bowl Game Preview Body Language Report Card Papelbon? That's Worth 14 Points in Scrabble Cleaning up after the Monster: An Excerpt True Die Hards: Rooting from Beyond the Grave Lights, Camera, Play Ball Start Scratching Hate Fatigue Got Tickets? Missing Sox The Couch Potato Games
Cyber-Cyrano to the Rescue! A Briefer History of the Internet
New England Sports
The Geek Goes for a Jog
Making Money
Coming to a Woodpile Near You Ask Dr. Dollar Sign
California Technology News
Step Away From the Internet DVD v. DVR The Match.com Guide to Keeping Your Customers Happy
December 2005 The Year Online - A Comprehensive L-W Guide The Year Online - A Comprehensive B-H Guide
November 2005 Putting the Mess Back Into Christmas Automation for the People
October 2005 My Profound Effect on the Red Sox (Updated from last year) The New World of Consumer Tracking
September 2005 Acing Job Interviews the Chief Justice Way
August 2005 Performance Enhancement For Dummies Putting Titles on Humor Columns? That Was My Idea
July 2005 Nigeria Strikes Back The Brain Behind the Athlete
June 2005 Baseball Infidelity There Are Tiny Robots in My Pants Wachovia: We’re Much More than Just Phony E-Mails!
May 2005 Make It a Betty Crocker Week
April 2005 More Reviews of Blogs by People I Know Who Don't Know I Know About Their Blogs "I'd Like To Thank the Members of the Conclave…" I Wouldn't Read This If I Were You
March 2005 Gym Diary Charles and Camilla's Wedding Evite
February 2005 The Neurotic's Guide to Weight Loss
January 2005 This Space For Rent Spyware is Forever
Two Thumbs Down
The Montreal Gazette
The Condensed Guide to Looking Like a Writer
Tacky Gifts for the Boston Sports Fan NFL Training Camp News Red Sox Book Reviews
The iPod Revolution Situation Comedy: Windows 99 Under Attack The New Cartographers The Retro Technology of Tomorrow Meet The Neighbors ... Online Jock Surfing Firefox: 10 Reasons to Switch Are You Feeling Lucky? DidTheyReadIt.com: Your Very Own Personal Spyware
Pulp Magazine
Reviews of Blogs by People I Know Who Don't Know I Know About Their Blogs
December 2004 NFL Playoff Scenarios Would You Like Your Coronary Super-Sized?
November 2004 When Small Forwards Attack Championships: A Beginner's Guide
October 2004 My Profound Effect on the World Series The Institute for Sloth Studies
September 2004 Running Commentary The Campaign Week That Was
August 2004 This Advertising Rant is Sponsored by ... Dream Reviews Attention: I Have Ceased to Care about Rick Pitino
July 2004 Free Speech Now! Over There! (The DNC in Boston) Survey Says
June 2004 A Sharp Poke in the Gums National Public Snooze Alarm
May 2004 Real or Unreal? A Reality TV Quiz The Carbohydrate Producers of America Is That a Cell Phone in Your Pocket?
April 2004 Teach Yourself Losing at Billiards Unconventional Wisdom
March 2004 Madness, I Say: NCAA Basketball Brackets The (Imaginary) Life of a Baseball Mogul Identity Theft
February 2004 Dentalgate: Are Those the President's Teeth? Add Length to Your Jail Term!
January 2004 Peer Pressure: The Martha Stewart Jury Resolution Progress Report
Through a Blog Darkly (My Original Blog Review Piece)
McSweeney's
Nine Lessons Learned From Baseball on the Radio
Canada 101: An Introduction for Americans An Embarrassment of Pants
California Computer News
The 12 Geeky Days of Christmas Casing the Real Estate Market I Prefer My Messages Tardy Choose Your Words Carefully Attack of the Evil Pop-Ups Fun with WiFI Why I'm an Idiot... and Other Tales of Internet Fraud Too Much Information: The Perils of Blogging Retro Radio
Legitimate File Sharing
Boston GM (Red Sox Column)
Cowboy Up For Dinner Time Garciaparra Conspiracy Theories Party Night at Fenway Still We Can't Believe It Spiderman Strikes Out Enjoy The Drama While It Lasts Attack of the Voodoo Bobbleheads Welcome to Friendly Fenway, A-Rod Pedro Martinez for Senate? Win One For The Beer Drinkers
Professor Barnhardt's Journal
Favorite Foods New Year's Resolutions
December 2003 The Award of the Year Award Right of Way for All Meeting up with the True Believers Part II: Dennis Kucinich
November 2003 Stupid Congress Tricks 8 Years of Humor Don't Flirt with Your Food
October 2003 Red Sox Virus Don Zimmer vs. Pedro Martinez Meeting up with the True Believers Part I: John Kerry
September 2003 Attention Red Sox: Ben Affleck Needs You
August 2003 Putting the Goober Back in Gubernatorial Adventures in Reality
June 2003 Nap Action Now!
May 2003 The Early Works of Joe Lavin Stealing Stickies for South Carolina
April 2003 You want Freedom Fries with that?
February 2003 Rent-a-Face Stop Playing Games
January 2003 Spam Saddam
Play Ball
It's All About the Algorithm, Baby! Now Reviewed on a Screen near You Piranhas, Hacks, and Smackdowns Surf the Net Like It's 1999
Meeting Up in the Real World Going Wireless Who Needs to Play Tetris on a Cell Phone? Web Sites for Guys The Blog Comes to Harvard BookCrossing: The Traveling Book Show Banned from the Internet All That I Want Look out! The Segway is coming!
Boston Metro
Urgent: This is Not Spam http://www.IMeanItDontEverCallMeAgain.gov
Boston's Weekly Dig
My Night as a Talking Head
Dispatches from an Embedded Office Worker Favorite TV Shows Favorite Films Words of Wisdom
December 2002 A Tale of Two Doves
November 2002 Christmas Turkeys
October 2002 Urgent Business Proposal
September 2002 The Caveman Guide to Good Eatin'
June 2002 It's Just a Bird
April 2002 Mirror, Mirror on the Ceiling
I Like My Food Dumb Goodbye Foxboro Stadium, Hello Alphabet Field
The Boston Phoenix
Dating Geeks for Dummies Open House Diaries
The Paranoid's Guide to Technology Attack of the Schwinging Robots Treasure Hunt with GPS
Hack Attack! SirCam, I love you -- but not as much as these Kournikova Pix Sorry I Haven't Written
ThingsAsian.com
You Need Massage? Happy Birthday, Hong Kong Style Insane Cab Rides and Imperial Splendor in Beijing Inside the Big Buddha
Inappropriate Query Letters Guilty Pleasures
October 2001 Activate My Chart, Baby!
September 2001 Fall TV Preview
June 2001 Go Red Sox!
April 2001 Spot the Reality
February 2001 Spare Some Change?
January 2001 Prostitution Island
The Smog Olympics: Beijing 2008 Elvis, Your Order is Ready Stop the Reality
Invasion of the Privacy Statements Beware the Satellites Technology and Baseball Filter This! Searching for Eddie Fisher: My Dad and Napster
Actual First Names of People Who Have Recently Worked in the Romance Department at Harvard University
Rubber Dinosaurs and Cadavers On and Around the Great Wall Watching the Horses with Bill Clinton A Geek's Guide to China
December 2000 Other Recounts Across North America
October 2000 A Day on the Presidential Campaign Trail Welcome to College
August 2000 Kissing Beneath the Bouncing Shadow
July 2000 Reviews of Stuff I Haven't Seen
May 2000 Cruise to Lose
March 2000 Canine Clones
February 2000 New Hampshire Voters Suddenly Lonely
January 2000 Professor Cyborg Peter, Wake Up!
Uber-techie So Plugged in That His Wires Are Crossed Just Give Him a Home Where the Interactive Don't Roam Coming Soon to an ATM Near You
Watch Your Back Net Addict This Is Only a Test
Worcester Magazine
Political Grunts: Inside the Bradley Campaign
December 1999 Sorry, Wrong Number
November 1999 Department of Corrections Say Goodbye to Clutter
October 1999 Love and the Single Life Always Accessible
August 1999 Brought to you by the letter W
May 1999 Um. . . Sorry About the Bomb
July 1999 Hut Hut Hutch
April 1999 Conception for Dummies
January 1999 I'm OK, Euro OK
August 1998 The Scandal of the Language of Scandal
August 1997 Orbitz: The Drink With Balls
July 1996 The Wrong Number
Adventures in Adult Ed The News We'd Like to Lose
It's 3:30 A.M. Do You Know What Your Portfolio is Doing? This Commercial is Brought to You by Friends
Salon
Why I Love CNBC
Countdown to 2000
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