I have been working on a new project, possibly my finest work to date, a wonderful fruit which has fallen from the tree of critical cyber-theory. It is called Kroker-esque, and allows any of us to construct post-futurist critiques in opposition to the virtual class anytime we want, even when we're drunk on 50. Kroker-esque is very much in progress, and the current version only works well with Internet Explorer 4 or better.

Someone made the valid point that you can't critique Kroker without suggesting alternatives. Do I have a suggestion of what to read of cultural theory applied to new technology? One book that springs to mind is The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age by Allucquere Rosanne Stone. I also quite like Flame Wars : The Discourse of Cyberculture, edited by Mark Dery. And many things by Herbert Schiller.

A few weeks ago I had breakfast with Leslie Shade; she told me she had spent some time on my Web site and gotten lost, big thing that it is. With this sort of site, I think, I've always felt that getting lost is part of fun.