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A L S O__T O D A Y The Net never forgets By J.D. Lasica Everything you've ever posted online could come back to haunt you someday - - - - - - - - - - T A B L E__T A L K The Microsoft antitrust trial: Discuss events as they unfold in the Digital Culture area of Table Talk - - - - - - - - - - R E C E N T L Y Strange Web fellows? By Andrew Leonard What the AOL purchase of Netscape really means (11/24/98) Thought-activated computing By Sam Witt and Sean Durkin The brain/computer interface becomes real -- as a boon for the paralyzed (11/23/98) The copyright boomerang By Peter Wayner A new copyright law bans tools that "circumvent" copy protections -- is cutting and pasting illegal? (11/20/98) Court puts new Net censorship rules on hold -- for now By Janelle Brown First ruling in "CDA II" case goes the way of law's opponents (11/20/98) Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg Windows on the wane? Open source and information appliances squeeze the PC from both sides (11/19/98) - - - - - - - - - - BROWSE THE 21ST CHALLENGE ARCHIVES - - - - - - - - - - 21st Log "Nerds 2.0.1": PBS's all-too-brief history of the Internet _______

BY CHARLIE VARON AND JIM ROSENAU Situation: You mistakenly receive the following piece of electronic mail: "Darling, I pine for your kiss, your caress, your tongue tickling myabdomen. Let's kill S.G. We'll leave everything behind -- jobs, spouses,kids, 401(k) plans -- and make a new life together. Meet me at midnightbehind Starbucks." Instructions to readers: You are invited to submit a reply to this e-mail. Bear in mind: At thecompany where you work, any outgoing e-mail longer than 20 words ismonitored -- and the "e" key on your computer is broken. - - - - - - - - - - - - R U L E S Send your submissions via e-mail only to salon21st@salonmagazine.com.Please include your full name and an accurate e-mail address so we cancontact you if you're a winner. By submitting your entry you give Salonpermission to publish it. Deadline for entries is Dec. 4, 1998. - - - - - - - - - - - - P R I Z E S The winning response this round will receive a copy of Salon technologycorrespondent Andrew Leonard's book, "Bots: the Origin of New Species." In two weeks we'll publish a winner and some selected entries -- thenstart over a couple weeks after that with a whole new challenge. SALON | Nov. 25, 1998 Charlie Varon is a humorist and playwright. His worksinclude "Ralph Nader Is Missing" and "Rush Limbaugh in Night School." JimRosenau is a writer, editor and software designer in Berkeley, Calif. Jimand Charlie are also co-founders of the citizen group Californians forEarthquake Prevention and partners in Mockingbird Productions, whichoffers a full line of comic services.