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Ring, Ring! It’s Your Soul Mate

In the San Francisco Bay Area, where lots of single engineers, programmers and Web developers lurk, finding a date can be a daunting task. That’s why Jim Wald, a 37-year-old technical writer in Burlingame, California, turned to online dating services like...

Dating Service Spam

What is the deal with all the dating service spam I’ve been getting lately? The major online dating services have instituted affiliate programs, which is not such a bad idea, but their outright greed translates into shoddy quality control when it comes to...

How to turn a negative into a positive

Another WIRED article from November ’99 where Rufus “Naughty Bits” Griscom and Genevieve Field went from “just another twentysomething Manhattan couple with low-paying jobs and a fascination with sex” to a separated duo hoping to score...