A list

Best-written piece ever on this site, mostly because it quotes Ken Layne extensively. From May 1999. Too bad the site was a dot bomb casualty.

Imagine going back to your old home town and finding the ole family home being bulldozed. GL's excellent high school reunion.

The holiday blues. Best ad banner ever displayed on the site. (December 1999).

A column about your doppelganger on the other side of the world. (March 1999).

Clyde gets busted. A baby-boomer birthday site archived for posterity.

2,001 words on Web writing.

The future doesn't need us . A July 2000 reaction to an excellent Wired article by Bill Joy.

The Punkin Chunkin.

Charles Schulz.

Calling all Survivors.

Garbage as a political football. The interstate commerce clause survived. (May 2000).

The woman I'm least allowed to talk about,Patricia Cornwell. (July 2000)

When Dennis Miller got the Monday Night Football gig, I wrote about the guy who lost in the audition -- Rush Limbaugh. (June 2000)

B list

The auto biography.

A thank you to a teacher. (Sept. 1999)

A little lament on the perils ofan inventor . (July 2000)

War in Bosnia (1 and 2).

A June 1999 piece on AM radio.

Ananova. (July, 2000)

Musings on portals, a column which predicted the coming of iWon.com (JMay 1999). When iWon finally came around, I wrote about it in October 1999.

Mid-life crisis. Sorta. (June 2000)

Fair Use Doctrine. A primer. (November 1998)

A preseason 1999 NFL rant.

Outrage as a virtue.

The most common word on the web.

The fiddle.

Romance

The crazy little thing called love.

Love is a verb. Here it is in in jive.

Sex is slipping in the polls.

In praise of out-of-towners.

Love as an insanity defense.

Distance as a strategy.

Dated

Sportsnight. Such a terrific TV show, everybody moved on to something better (West Wing, Six Feet Under)

A simple eulogy.

Kathleen Willey, 15 minutes of fame expired. Once in gl the mag legal review, and once in a column.

The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is the Super Bowl of publishing. The equator-themed year was brilliant. It also offered me a chance to hoodwink search engines to come to my site; you wouldn't believe the traffic I got on this crap (1, 2, 3, 4).

Break the educational monopoly. (Sept. 1999)

Saving Private Ryan's white ass. (March 1999)

Keep your tax collectors off my infobahn. (Sept. 1999)

Why not? A voter boycott. (Aug. 1999)

John McCain.

Reform Party.

Jerry Springer.

Parodies

GLPOLITAN. Includes the Cosmo quiz and the bedside atrologer.

The Harpers Index. Uh, not really.

April Fools. Four years of spoofing news sites. Note how they get better looking over the years.

WTF?

My disclaimer is way old, but it actually generated some business leads for me, believe it or not.

Objective assessment. Got it from an astrologer. (March 1999)

Three years ago, my poker buddies didn't believe this out-of-town girlfriend actually existed. So I compiled one big JPEG of proof.

An test in Flash, linked more for the sayings than the artwork.

I have no idea why this came about, but I do remember the waitress.

A June 2000 Microsoft rant. Remember they are making 85 and 75 percent margins on products gained through monopolistic practices. Check the non-sequitor headline.

An article as an excuse to run my favorite picture of all time.

The Water Cooler. A great idea that I used exactly once as a vehicle to round up items of note.

Style Points. Used to have a style points like at the end of every page as a way to offer necessary credit. Turns out, so many people actually read my stuff to the very end, I started putting real content in.

Capitalism. An odd rant from July 2000.