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The Forbidden City of Terry Gou

His complex in China turns out iPhones and PCs, powering the biggest exporter you've never heard of

In Our Post-PC Era, Apple's Device Model Beats the PC Way

Comparing two different technology business models.

The Kingmaker

A look at Walter Mossberg, the Wall Street Journal's most influential tech writer.

Nintendogs: The case of the non-game that barked like a game

A game design review of an innovative game

This is a game design review, not a game review. A game review typically is written for the consumer and is intended to help them decide if they want to purchase the title. A game design review is written for other game developers and is intended to highlight successes and failures of the various layers of the game design.

Ed Catmull: Pixar 's Superhero Shakes Up Disney

It's tempting to see "Cars," the seventh movie from Pixar Animation Studios, as a parable about the future of Walt Disney Co.

Early in the film, which opened Friday, a cocky race car named Lightning McQueen declares, "I'm a one-man show." But by the time the credits roll, McQueen realizes he's nothing without a great pit crew behind him.

It's a lesson that Ed Catmull, Pixar's co-founder and the new president of Disney Feature Animation, has built his career on.

Cargo Cult Science

Categories - Humor :: Technology :: Noted Authors

Scan This Book!

The explosive rise of the Web, going from nothing to everything in one decade, has encouraged us to believe in the impossible: Might the long-heralded great library of all knowledge really be within our grasp?

Astronauts and Area 51: the Skylab Incident

The CIA considered no other spot on Earth to be as sensitive as Groom Lake, and the astronauts had just taken a picture of it.

Categories - Weird Science :: Technology

You are Exposed

When even the privacy commissioner's cellphone records are available online, we've all got security problems.

Categories - Politics :: Technology

Welcome to Planet Pixar

How the pixel-packing upstart became an animation superpower and left Disney in the dust.

The Convergence Bubble

Are all-in-one devices doomed to fail?

God Tech Support

God: Hello, this is the religion help line, what is your disbelief?

Categories - Humor :: Religion :: Technology

A Girl's Guide to Geek Guys

Which will it be, a wifely prison or a humiliating one night stand? Into this void of potential mates comes a man you may not have considered before, a man of substance, quietude and stability, a cerebral creature with a culture all his own. In short, a geek.

Categories - Humor :: Sex :: Technology

Theological Engineering Exam

5 Questions, 60 Minutes

You may use a calculator, the Bible, the Koran, the Torah, and the Book of Mormon. The speed of light is c. Show all work. For all problems, assume a perfectly spherical Jesus of constant density D. No praying during the exam.

Categories - Humor :: Religion :: Technology

CIA's Artistic Enigma Yields All But Final Clue

The inscription on David Sanborn's copper sculpture, "Kryptos," at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va., contains a cryptic message.

Categories - Technology :: Fun and Games