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A L S O__T O D A Y 21st Log "South Park" spoof: Oh my God, they killed "Star Wars"! "Wing Commander" creator takes the director's chair By Howard Wen Chris Roberts talks about his passage from the little screen to the big screen   T A B L E__T A L K What's the dream operating system for cruising the Internet? It's another Mac vs. Windows go-round in the 21st area of Table Talk - - - - - - - - - - R E C E N T L Y Beauty and the geeks By Janelle Brown Female technology execs face cruel choices about selling their own sex appeal (03/11/99) Amazon vs. the ants By Scott Rosenberg Sure, David can beat Goliath on the Web -- if he's got a New York Times columnist in his corner (03/10/99) How can they patent that? By Peter Wayner The torrent of patents for e-commerce schemes raises new questions about an old-fashioned system (03/09/99) Fortress Microsoft By Tony Seideman Redmond's scorched-earth spin strategy has turned into a PR nightmare (03/08/99) Let's Get This Straight: By Scott Rosenberg Why hasn't the software industry given us more tools to get our lives in order? (03/05/99) - - - - - - - - - - BROWSE THE 21ST CHALLENGE ARCHIVES - - - - - - - - - - _______

--{ The 2 1st Challenge No. 19 } --A motto for Silicon Valley -----------------[ R E S U L T S ]| ------------|BY CHARLIE VARON AND JIM ROSENAU - - - - - - - - - - - - J U D G E S'__C O M M E N T S How fast do ideas move on the Net? Before we even posted our selections from this challenge, in which we asked you to devise a new motto for Silicon Valley, Jim Graham forwarded news that participants on the World Wide Web Artists Consortium mailing list had created their own East Coast edition. Glenn Hauman challenged his compatriots to come up with a slogan for Silicon Alley and got these responses, among others: Three hours ahead of the valley -- 21 hours in Internet time. Silicon Alley: The Big Applet Silicon Alley: Exploiting native fear and distrust of Californians since 1993. Meanwhile, back home in the valley, our readers weighed in with their own native wit. Thanks to all who entered. - - - - - - - - - - - - W I N N E R Where quality is Job One-Point-One -- Maurice Herlihy - - - - - - - - - - - - H O N O R A B L E __M E N T I O N S Artificial intelligence -- when you just can't get the real thing -- Nancy Ott Sleep is for the weak -- Robert Zazueta I came, I saw, IPO -- Andy Halushka Public or Perish -- John R. Wodziak If at first you don't succeed, go for a second round -- Rex Hill Where the world comes to pay more for housing -- Dana Spradley Give me your contract-hired, your poor-before, your not-so-subtle badasses -- Kimberly Green Spinning sand into gold -- Sue Clark "It Compiles. Ship It" -- Doug Sheppard Lies, damned lies, and market caps -- Alex Strasheim Silicon Valley: commute, compute, commute -- David Kenney Come for the overtaxing work environment, stay for the unaffordable housing prices -- Richard Kairis Silicon Valley: It happened here first, yesterday -- Kyri Sparks Thank you for holding. Our next available technical support representative will be with you shortly -- Kurt Gray The other white industry -- Eli Neiburger God bless the early adopters -- Eli Neiburger Go public or get out of the way -- Jack Lizmi Upgrade or perish -- Allan Ross Kreuiter We don't just make your computer, we make your computer obsolete! -- Steve Roche Silicon Valley Population: 110010101000101010010101000001110010101010101011 -- Karin Newton Thanks for your submissions -- and check back in two weeks for the next Salon 21st Challenge. SALON | March 12, 1999 Charlie Varon is a humorist and playwright. His works include "Ralph Nader Is Missing" and "Rush Limbaugh in Night School." Jim Rosenau is a writer, editor and software designer in Berkeley, Calif. Jim and Charlie are also co-founders of the citizen group Californians for Earthquake Prevention and partners in Mockingbird Productions, which offers a full line of comic services.