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A L S O__T O D A Y "Griffin & Sabine's" letters go digital By Scott Rosenberg "Ceremony of Innocence" CD brings a postcard romance to your screen - - - - - - - - - - T A B L E _ T A L K Is free software finally gaining ground in the OS wars? Discuss Linux vs. NT and others in the Digital Culture area of Table Talk - - - - - - - - - - R E C E N T L Y Martin Luther, meet Linus Torvalds By Thomas Scoville Linux and free software challenge the Microsoft papacy (11/12/98) Is there such a thing as a software monopoly? By Mike Romano Microsoft says no -- and its arguments could provoke changes in the antitrust laws (11/11/98) Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg The New Yorker's portrait of PointCast displays once more the magazine's Internet ignorance (11/10/98) Music industry to webcasters: Pay up! By Janelle Brown Will the new copyright law's rules help Web radio flourish -- or smother the infant medium? (11/09/98) The ghosts in our machines By Andrew Brown "TechGnosis" traces the secret mysticism that motivates our love affair with technology (11/06/98) - - - - - - - - - - BROWSE THE 21ST CHALLENGE ARCHIVES - - - - - - - - - - 21st Log HotWired advertiser sponsors a blackout _______

BY CHARLIE VARON AND JIM ROSENAU Results of ChallengeNo. 15, in which we asked you to write telemarketing pitches in the form of haiku. - - - - - - - - - - - - J U D G E S'__C O M M E N T S Once again, the haiku poets inundated the Salon Challenge. Not only do you love haiku, you have strong feelings about telemarketers, too. If the phone banks do add poetry to their arsenal, let's hope they don't adopt epic verse. As you'll see, three lines is more than enough to tell the whole story. - - - - - - - - - - - - W I N N E R darkness grows outdoors, your dinner cools, I waste a moment of your time -- Dave Demko - - - - - - - - - - - - H O N O R A B L E __M E N T I O N S Hello! I'd like to consolidate your debts and mispronounce your name! -- Eric Bateman squirrel dies in frost, nuts uneaten -- do you spend too little money? -- Dave Demko So many sink like Stones into silent lakes, but You are pre-approved. -- Francis Heaney Bronchitis Hello, may I speak to the lady of the house? ... You are a lady? -- Robert Wade Bess Telenosis Hello? Don't hang up. You are remembering when you were a small child ... -- Robert Wade Bess Pale blossoms in spring Or late fall leaves -- whichever, Buy our leafblowers! -- Simon Firth N E X T_P A G E .|.Haiku that sell -- and sell -- and keep on selling!