George Mannes

From Java to internet gaming, what's next on the web

Photographers spend a day documenting how the online world works

Donnie and Stuart Smalley experience a set of magic balls in ''Stuart Saves His Family''

Updating bionic superheroes for the 21st century

New CD-ROM-friendly releases offer more than just the latest hits, including albums from Bush, Bob Dylan, and more

More and more hit videogames are hitting the book shelves, from ''Mortal Kombat'' to ''Doom''

The Sinbad film shows clips of people hitting each other in the face

More and more hit videogames are hitting the book shelves, from ''Mortal Kombat'' to ''Doom''

The Sinbad film shows clips of people hitting each other in the face

The disc based on ''Live From Death Row'' by convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal

Retired LA police chief Daryl F. Gates says game is realistic

The new format holds more data and offers better picture and sound

Multiuser dimensions (MUDs) are popping up on the World Wide Web

These on-line services run the gamut from the mundane to the outrageous

The actress starred in ''Parasite,'' a low-budget horror movie in 1982

Instrumental transcommunication has the dearly departed contacting us via electronic media

The makers of ''Terminal Velocity'' seem to have followed this dictum

Some of the weird thank yous found on software

Fake credits in 'Natural Born Killers'

The two men touting 'Mr. Payback'