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Dodging Rocks in The Holy Land
By Patrick Mascoe
The writer had occasion to work and live in Jerusalem recently and here we see a first hand factual account of his experience in the current polital climate there.

 

The Laptop We SHOULD Have
By Jeffrey the Barak
A Rant about how the ideal and obvious features of the perfect laptop are simply not being offered to us.

 

The decline of the Handhelds - Is there a future for the PDA?
By Jeffrey the Barak
With Cellphones getting smarter and Computers getting smaller, the handheld is getting squeezed from both sides. Does it have a future?
Taking a Vacation from Microsoft
By Jeffrey the Barak
With Outlook and Word getting slower with each upgrade, it suddenly becomes obvious that there is free software out there that actually works better! A rant about switching to Firefox, Thunderbird, Palm Desktop and OpenOffice.
First published in November 2004 and updated in February 2005
The Perfect Bag - The REI Personal Organizer
By Jeffrey the Barak
After decades of buying and discarding daily luggage, the perect bag for city life is finally located.
The Secret Pro-Life Agenda
By Sig Shonholtz
A Pre-Election rally reveals a possible secret agenda from the Pro-Lifers. They need the unborn to grow up and contribute money to social security.
Feline Fury!
By Lynda Murtha
One moment everything is normal, then a feral cat appears and there are a few moments of chaos with a lady, a cat and a dog, a scratch, a cop and a gun. Thousands of dollars later....

Godzilla and the '49 Merc.
By Mike 'Roadie' Marino
The 1950's, Drive-In Culture, B-Movies, Custom Cars. Mike Marino expounds upon the Fifties that so many of us imagine we remember so well.

Collecting Portable Time
By Sig Shonholtz
What do Eli Wallach, Artie Shaw and Malcolm McDowell have in common? How can you have Cleopatra's gold and a clutch of scientific and engineering breakthroughs in one hand while enjoying a beautiful work of art? A watch is a machine for living with. If you collect anything at all, this could change your direction.

Invasion of the Backslash
By Jeffrey the Barak
Does your new computer keyboard have a single width backspace key with a backslash key to the left of it? Are you used to the double-width backspace key? Welcome to Backslash Hell!

The Decisive Fork
By Dr. Nagendra Rentala
Dr Nagendra Rentala returns to the-vu with a good hard look at the current corporate crime wave

What is Tachyon Energy?
By Robert Ziegler
An introduction to the faster than light particles that can only be understood if imagination is introduced into the equation. Oh well, if modern physics requires us to imagine in order to understand, the goal is worth it! Find out how tachyon energy can help you!

The Extra Mile
Dr. Nagendra Rentala brings to the-vu a full and rational thesis on the current world crisis. If you wish you could understand terrorism, hate, religion, evolution and war, this might make it all clear. This article could save you from living your life in the mental dark ages. It's time to realize what's really going on in the world. Reading this work from this great writer could steer you on the path to understanding rational reality. the-vu dares you to read the truth! After all, thousands of zombies are being programmed to kill us all. We need to know what is going on. This is not a joke.

Check Your Panties At The Door
By Betty Pine
How a crazy school vice-principal traumatized a large group of young ladies by insisting they each publicly display their most private undergarment for inspection before entering the high school prom.
Menu Disorder
By Shawn Lomax
An unusual view of our modern eating habits from a man alone in Barcelona
Urgently Objectivist
At last an article from a fellow Objectivist! G.E.Nordell tenderly introduces some theory for the rescue of your misguided mind.

New Thinking in Home Stereo
By Jeffrey the Barak

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= good
Do you have a large silvery plastic thing containing a couple of cassette decks, a pop-up CD drawer or a five disc carousel and an FM tuner with LED's all over it? Is part of it broken, just like the one you had before? There is an alternative! Go heavy duty. Go professional. Go tough. Go strong. Go powerful. Go quality. Get the real thing!
Bowling....
The Good Life?

By Cynthia Bellai
"Ed" may own a small town bowling alley in the television sitcom, but the-vu has found an aspiring real life Ed in the form of Cynthia Bellai. A future bowling entrepreneur opens up to the-vu with her inspiring goal.

Earthquake Weather
By Donna Schwartz Mills
As a lifelong Angeleno, I've learned a lot from Northridge and Landers and Whittier and Sylmar. We live in a single-story home with nothing heavy hanging on our walls...
The Demise of Themestream and the Slimming of About
By Jeffrey the Barak
Why does the disappearance of such strong "competitors" sadden us?
Internet Marketing
How to Get Insanely Rich on the Internet!
By Linda Cox
Spam Spasms and Spamocidal mania!
By Linda Cox
10 Great Myths of Internet Marketing.
By Linda Cox
Sex and the Gods of Internet Marketing.
By Linda Cox
Organic Lawn Grub Control
By Arzeena Hamir
Gardeners, put away your chemicals, there's another way to beat those parasites while being kinder to the environment.
The Power of Jade
By Raymond J G Wells
...it has been the Chinese who over long centuries have perfected the craftsmanship of this fascinating precious living stone.
Globalization... is it possible?
By Caroline Baker
Even in 1492, when Columbus sailed the ocean blue, leadership understood that achieving the leading edge required the ability to reach distant lands faster than anyone else. 
The Prince, Serbian Style, 
or The decade that would never end.
By Kata Brasovan.
“A guy volunteering for the army, in a Serbian village circa 1941, decided to join the partisans over the Royal Serbian army-also known as Chetniks, because the line was shorter.”

 

 
 
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