Back during the heady days of the dotcom boom, struggling writer Paul T. Riddell, overdosed on reruns of Max Headroom and incredible hubris, decided to try his hand at Internet journalism. Between 1998 and 2002, he wrote for an audience of dozens on subjects ranging from bookstore management to the famous Mad Shitter of Texas Instruments, and the best appear here in dead-tree format for the first time. Feel free to descend into Riddell’s world, where Rant Makes Right, japery is the order of the day, and the pen is mightier than the sword only until you try to decapitate an editor with a laptop and a running start.