Tiffany Lee Brown (Editrix) is a freelance writer and web consultant based in Portland, Oregon. Her writing is published in magazines like Utne Reader, Wired, Bookforum, and Bust, and she contributes to books including The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order, Sex & Single Girls, and The Covert Culture Sourcebook. She currently acts as Creative Director for the Joko Project . And she sings, sitting in with Land of the Blind and the Gone Orchestra recently (Portlandians, pencil in December 18 at Dante’s, where Tif will likely sing with an as-yet-unnamed project involving evil holiday music). Photo by J.Eric Townsend at Burning Man.

Lessley Anderson is a writer for the Industry Standard. She also writes cool book reviews for us. And you should see her in a hot red dress and combat boots, runnning around in the desert! Whew! Lessley just plain rocks. -TLB

Mandy Catalano (contributing photographer, illustrator) is a long-standing member of the dUdÜ art collective. When asked for further comment, Ms.Catalano said only "We hate the Fluxus!" –TLB

Shannon Cromwell (contributing artist) is a migratory bird, visual artist (fine art, unrefined art, digital paintings, web design, photography, scanography, sculpture, fusion, colour, etc.. all the media she can slip her mind into, to keep her hands from shaking).

Rick Doble (contributing artist) has been a professional photographer and photography teacher for 30 years, and has 15 years experience with computers, including programming. He is listed in the original Marquis Who’s Who in America. He received his Masters in Communications from UNC-Chapel Hill, NC in 1975. His site includes over 600 digital images and eight articles about art in the 21st century.

gregoryp ^tm (contributing writer) gregoryp ^tm’s last known whereabouts was in a little truckstop just outside Nashville, Tenn., where this photograph was taken. As gregoryp(tm), he’s written for NetSlaves, SIGNUM, and contributed to How To Mutate and Take Over the World, CoffeeHouse: Writings from the World Wide Web, Sneakers: A Global Footwear Experiment, and other weird anthologies. He also edits "Random Cool Bits." Look for his alter-ego, Gregory Pleshaw, in other publications.

Ian Grey (contributing writer), an American national, writes about culture, film and music. Author of Sex, Stupidity, & Greed: Inside the American Movie Industry, he is currently at work on a very long novel based upon two lines from an old, rather generic Depeche Mode song. He likes to think he is among the first the first to do this.

Todd Grimson (contributing writer and illustrator) is the award-winning author of Brand New Cherry Flavor, Stainless, and Within Normal Limits. He lives in Portland, Oregon and will soon present the world with a new novel.

Helena G. Harvilicz (contributing writer) really wants people to like her, so it’s unfortunate that she has such as unappealing disposition. You might think it’s because she has been left behind so many times. Raves, japanimation, the Internet, gangsta rap. She definitely does not have her finger on the pulse. What is all this ... stuff? She’s undeniably envious but it's far worse: she's naturally surly.

Joseph Hobaica, a.k.a. Mr.X, is known for his book Joey "X": Man of Mystery, authored after his capture by the Romanian government's clandestine poets agency in 1992. Hobaica is currently at work on an account of this summer's "Black Rock City Dome Rescue," in which he saved an itinerant band of cargo cult worshippers from losing their holy shade structure, with the aid of King Jupiter.

Andrew Hultkrans (Contributing Editor) is editor of Bookforum. Previously, he toiled as managing editor for Mondo 2000, and as a freelance writer for six ass-reddening years. His hemming and hawing about the media, film, music, literature, art and the occasional lunatic has appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, Wired, Salon, 21C, Filmmaker, Stim, and several books. Photo by the unscrupuless Bart Nagel.

Tom Igoe (initial site layout) worked as a theatre electrician and occasional lighting designer, but left it all behind and moved to New York for a more glamorous career in new media. Formerly a teacher at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, he spends his time making talking fountains, .38 caliber Smith & Wesson computer mice, and VR headgear out of gas masks.

Amy Jarrell ( Freezone Curator, contributing photographer) is a 20-year-old photographer and digital artist from Philadelphia who enjoys defacing plastic dolls with sharpies and using them as her models in her work (the dolls, not the sharpies). She scans everything from body parts to bathrobes, and is deathly afraid of radiation. As the founder of Unhappy Medium Productions & Unhappy Medium Design, she spends her days wondering if anyone is listening.

Syd Jesus (contributing artist) is the founder and leader of the dUdÜ art collective.

Richard Kadrey (Contributing Editor and Covert Culture columnist) wrote the novels Metrophage and Kamikaze l’Amour, and the non-fiction Covert Culture Sourcebook series. He recently wrote the four-comic series Accelerate for Vertigo, and will release the graphically enhanced novella Angel Scene in 2001. Photo by Lyn Gaza, modified by Gomi Boy. –TLB

Chris Karoli (contributing writer) lives in a hotel in Times Square and summers in Cape Cod. He’s worth more money than most successful actors, has traveled extensively in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Moscow, Paris, London, Brighton and Manchester, and has never needed a day job. He attended an Ivy League school because his parents are rich and their friends wrote him letters of recommendation. He graduated with a 2.4 GPA and gave the dean the finger at graduation. He’s 24 and still doesnt care about anything, although he disperses nearly one million dollars to various charities each year.

Barry Kavanagh (contributing writer) is the author of the "surreal... melancholic" unpublished novel What the Ostrich Sees in the Sand and is a conspicuous member of the musical group Dacianos ("a source of joy, bemusement and inspiration"), who actually play live, record and release stuff. He is currently trying to write a "Taoist novel". May he grow wings and fly away!

Peter Landau (contributing writer) is the columnist behind "Show Business Insider." He lurks around Brooklyn in fab ties and groovy glasses. –TLB

Brenda Laurel (contributing writer) is a designer, researcher and writer. Her work focuses on interactive narrative, human-computer interaction, and cultural aspects of technology. She is editor of The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design and author of Computers as Theatre and a collection of essays entitled Severed Heads. She holds an M.F.A. and Ph.D. in theatre from the Ohio State University and was a founding member of the research staff of Interval Research Corporation. She was also one of the founders and VP/Design of Purple Moon, which was acquired by Mattel in 1999. In 1990 she co-founded Telepresence Research, Inc. to develop virtual reality and remote presence technology and applications. Brenda lives with her husband Rob Tow and their family at their house Locus Voci in the Santa Cruz mountains.

Jon Lebkowsky (contributing writer) has been in the thick of the Internet’s emergence as a pervasive environment for fringe culture and political activism, and he’s also done pioneering work managing virtual communities and mainstream ecommerce projects. He is currently writing a book, Virtual Bonfire, for MIT Press, and has written articles about culture and technology for The Austin Chronicle and other publications. He co-hosts the WELL’s Mirrorshades conference with Bruce Sterling and Linda Castellani, and is a co-host of Inkwell. He was co-founder of FringeWare, Inc., an editor for the Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, and a host/moderator at Electric Minds and HotWired.

Lulu (contributing artist) recently achieved sentience.

magdalen (contributing writer) is one of many transparent pseudonyms used for vague and psychologically unsound reasons by some girl who writes.

Chad McEvoy(contributing writer) is a once and future zoologist currently working in the software industry between travel adventures.

Richard Meltzer (contributing writer) is the great unsung, or undersung, or undersomething, man of North American letters and lit. Author of a dozen books, including The Aesthetics of Rock, Gulcher, 17 Insects Can Die in Your Heart, L.A. Is the Capital of Kansas, The Night (Alone), Tropic of Nipples, and the recently published A Whore Just Like the Rest: The Music Writings of Richard Meltzer, he has also done time as a visual artist, filmmaker, garbage picker, boxing authority, rock lyricist, punk rock singer and DJ. He currently lives in Portland, where he is guest vocalist for the band Smegma.

Cletus Nelson (contributing writer) is a regular contributor to Eye and Panik. His paranoid prose has appeared in Utne Reader, Now, Boulder Weekly, Spider, the Boston Phoenix, and other independent pubs.

Andi Olsen (contributing artist) is an artist whose assemblages and collages have appeared in galleries and journals across the country and abroad, most recently Berlin, San Diego, and London.

Lance Olsen (contributing writer) is author of more than a dozen books of and about Avant-Pop fiction, including the novels Tonguing the Zeitgeist and Time Famine, and Rebel Yell: A Short Guide to Writing Fiction.

Mark Pesce (contributing writer) Internationally recognized as the man who brought virtual reality into the World Wide Web, Mark Pesce has been exploring the frontiers of the future for nearly two decades. The author of three books — including Browsing and Building Cyberspace — Pesce has written for Wired, Feed, Salon, and numerous Ziff-Davis periodicals. Ballantine recently published his latest book, The Playful World: Interactive Toys and the Future of the Imagination. Pesce was appointed Chair of the Interactive Media Program at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television.

Pighed (contributing designer), a.k.a. Mark Meadows, helped us with stuff at the beginning, for which we are eternally grateful. He has done neat things at Xerox PARC, Construct, the Interactive Media Festival, and Atomic Tangerine. –TLB

VX Potenza (contributing writer, leader of the pack) is the founder and publisher of SIGNUM. Internationally renowned for his rare appearances with the Provo Symphony, he has been playing the rare Coyote Clarinet since 1906.–TLB & Enrique

Chris Reddig (contributing photographer) is an Oakland-based photographer, videographer, and noiseographer.

Chaleampon "Oates" Ritthichai (Webmaestro, layout) designs and maintains no fewer than 13 sites, with the help of his Balinese tightrope walker, Lopez Brown. In his spare time, Oates performs strategic warfare, and likes to take long walks at twilight. –us again

Jennifer Robin (contributing writer) is the author of Bouzi and hosts the Portland radio show NIGHT OF THE LIVING TONGUE: Everything that can be done with words...and the occasional bonus collage of sound effects and music! on KBOO 90.7 FM, Thursdays, 11PM-Midnight. –TLB

MJ Rose (alt.books columnist) is the author of Lip Service, the first self-published and Internet-marketed novel to be picked up by mainstream publishers and chosen by the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Clubs to be a featured alternate selection. She is also the co author of The Secrets of Our Succes: how to publish and market and promote on the web. Rose has just sold her second novel to Pocket Books.

Rudy Rucker, Jr. (donated services) is a cutie-pie extraordinaire. Instead of telling us, "Hey, we could use a search function here" he made us one! Were I still publishing the 'zine Hot Geeks!, I think he'd rate his own Trading Card.-TLB

Douglas Rushkoff (contributing writer) Douglas Rushkoff is the author of seven books on new media and popular culture, including Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing the Future, Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say and the novel Ecstasy Club. His radio commentaries air on NPR’s "All Things Considered," and his monthly column on cyberculture is distributed through the New York Times Syndicate. Rushkoff is professor of media culture at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture, on the Board of Directors of the Media Ecology Association, and a founding member of Technorealism. He has written for Time, The Guardian, Esquire, Paper, GQ and The Silicon Alley Reporter, and developed the Electronic Oracle software series for HarperCollins Interactive. Photo by Roberto Todaro.

R.U.Sirius (contributing writer) is the Revolutionary Party chairman and candidate for President of the United States. A founding editor of Mondo 2000, author of numerous tomes, and general all-around cultural commentator, his latest work is the little red book: The Revolution®: Quotations from Revolution Party Chairman R.U.Sirius. Don’t blame him for the Florida recount.–TLB

Holly Tedford (contributing writer) was born and raised in the great state of Texas, at just about the point where the Bible Belt crosses Tornado Alley. After escaping from the prairie five years ago, she has made her home in various parts of Northern California, most recently in San Francisco, where she appreciates the increased cultural quotient but misses the thunderstorms and barbecue of her home state. Holly spends most of her time as a halfway respectable nonprofit consultant, with occasional gigs as a less respectable singer with various alt-country and rock bands. She is also busily procrastinating on a Masters thesis about stressful aspects of crisis hotline volunteer work.

Dave Walsh (contributing writer) Daev, Daev, Daev. Everyone loves Daev. Probably because he won the Best Pig Blue Ribbon for the entire country of Uruguay, in addition to flinging himself around the world on a moped.–TLB & Enrique again.

Don Webb (contributing writer) is a native born Texan. He’s known for Texas based mysteries The Double and Essential Saltes, his 200 or so published SF short stories, having a sex manual dedicated to him, his occult books The Seven Faces of Darkness and Uncle Setnakt’s Essential Guide to the Left Hand Pat, and more.

Scott Westerfeld (contributing writer) is a novelist and composer. He is the author of Polymorph and Fine Prey, both published by Penguin/Roc, and Evolution’s Darling (Four Walls Eight Windows). His electronic compositions for dance have been performed at Dance Theater Workshop, The Joyce Theater, P.S. 122, and Jacob’s Pillow. He was born in Texas and lives on New York’s Lower East Side.

Brad Wieners (contributing writer) was an editor at Wired, like, forever, and bravely abandoned the South Park scene to become Senior Editor at Outside magazine. It sounds scarily as though it might involve doing more with one’s life than cuddling up to a computer screen. Hard to say; you’d have to ask him. Which is what I should’ve done, instead of writing a bio about him! –TLB

Miriam Zellnik (contributing writer) was born in a New York City taxicab. The driver was so touched by her birth that he knocked 5 bucks off the fare, much to her mother’s delight. She spent her earliest years travelling the globe with her parents, part of a troupe of fire-eaters who played before royalty on several occasions, but Mim ran away to the isle of Portlandia, where she currently writes and lives.