The Year in Ideas: A to Z
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/12INTRO.html
An annual compendium of ideas from A to Z. (Or at least Y. And,
frankly, also missing J, O, Q, R and X.)
Acoustic Keyboard Eavesdropping
'Acting White' Myth, The
Animated Society Portrait, The
Anti-Concept Concept Store, The
Augmented Bar Code, The
Benign Corporate Oligarchy, The
Best Way to Skip a Stone, The
Blogo Ad, The
Caller ID 6.0
Car That Emotes, The
Cold-Weather Theory of Witchcraft, The
Concrete You Can See Through
Criminalizing Reckless Sex
Debunking Photoshop Fakery
Designated Hitter as Moral Hazard, The
Do-It-Yourself Attack Ad, The
Downwardly Defined Celebrity Flaw, The
Drug-Trial Registry, The
Dumb Robots Are Better
EBay Vigilantism
Electability
Employable Liberal Arts Major, The
Escalating High-Heel Shoe, The
Exoskeleton Strength
Eyeball Jewelry
FanWing, The
Feral Cities
Fertile Red States
Foolproof Death Penalty, The
Genetic Family Values
Giga-Waves
Global Political Positioning System, The
Hawkishness as Evolutionary Holdover
Income-Variability Anxiety
Inkless Magazine, The
Invitation-Only, Incentivized Campaign Rally, The
Kill Midlevel Terrorists
Land-Mine-Detecting Plants
Lawfare
Listening for Cancer
Mainstream Mash-Up, The
Making Vaccines Good Business
McProfiling
Micropolis, The
Neo-Secessionism
Nonhegemonic Curating
Phraselator, The
Popular Constitutionalism
Presenteeism
Professional Amateurs
Psychopathic C.E.O.'s
Purple Is the Color of Correction
Purple-State Country Music
Sabermetrics for Football
Self-Storage
Singable National Anthem, The
Skin Literature
Soccer Model of Warfare, The
Stock Options for Soldiers
Strategic Extremism
Television Blaster, The
Thermoacoustic Freezer, The
3-Point Problem, The
Underwear for Animated People
Vaporized, Oxygenated Cocktail, The
Virtopsy
Virtual Sketch Artist, The
Wal-Mart Sovereignty
Wandering Museum, The
Water That Isn't Wet
You Don't Need Superstars to Win
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