Search Salon

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Recently in Salon Technology

Dear Diary
Andrew Smales' astonishing Diaryland site provides the format. You supply the secrets.
By Todd Levin
[12/10/99]

Dot-com dogs
With Net-stock fever showing no signs of cooling, mediocre IPOs are growing as plentiful as fleas on a stray hound.
By Mark Gimein
[12/09/99]

Your boss may be monitoring your e-mail
Personal computers were supposed to liberate the workplace. So why do so many companies use them to spy on workers?
By Maura Kelly
[12/08/99]

I e-shopped till I dropped
Playing Santa's little helper, I surfed for a digital camera -- and longed for an elf to take a load off my aching eyes.
By Morgan Sande
[12/07/99]

Technology: View from the top
Prime time online
Jim Moloshok just launched the multimillion-dollar Entertaindom portal. Can he create the successor to network TV?
By Susan Kuchinskas
[12/06/99]

Complete archives for Technology

- - - - - - - - - - - -

- - - - - - - - - - - -

- - - - - - - - - - - -

But even before you zap your oh-so-private credit card numbers into secure socket layers, there's still the matter of what to give whom -- and whether they'll like it. Intelligent agents and compar-a-bots can't help you there. Gift-giving remains a human domain -- and a tricky task at that.

Readers are invited to find a gift, actually available for purchase online, for an appropriate recipient, real or imagined, famous or obscure: A child's globe for Dubya; a muzzle for Jesse Ventura.

Tell us who's getting what. Tell us why, unless it's obvious. And please include the Web address at which the gift may be found -- we might have to return it.

Up to three submissions per person.

R U L E S

Send your submissions via e-mail only to salon21st@salon.com. Please include your full name and an accurate e-mail address so we can contact you if you're a winner. By submitting your entry you give Salon Technology permission to publish it. Deadline for entries is Dec. 20, 1999.

P R I Z E S

The winning response will receive a copy of Salon Technology senior correspondent Andrew Leonard's book, "Bots: The Origin of New Species."

In two weeks we'll publish a winner and some selected entries -- then start over a couple weeks after that with a whole new challenge.
salon.com | Dec. 11, 1999

- - - - - - - - - - - -

- - - - - - - - - - - -

  Get a printer-friendly version

  E-mail a friend about this article

  Backflip this article to find it again

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Search Salon