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Mark Saltveit

Writing -- Standup Comedy -- Film/Video

Writing

Books -- Chapbooks --Essays -- Magazines -- Online -- Wine Labels

Books

"How to Be Simple Minded" (in progress). Read an excerpt here.
Popular Taoist Americana.

"A Man, A Plan, 2002: The Year in Palindromes" (Palindromist Press: 2002)
A calendar/datebook with 250 palindromes, half original, for the reversible year.

"Computer Fun For Everyone" with Elin Kordahl Saltveit (John Wiley & Sons: 1998)
Kid's computer projects, for any computer or software

Chapbooks

"The Gecko Wears a Tiara: Ancient Sumerian Proverbs", 2007.

Essays

"Whatever", in The Genx Reader Ed. Doug Rushkoff, (Ballantine: 1994)
Quoted in Newsweek cover story

"No Smircog", Harvard Magazine, N/D 1997
Interview with Professor Osseforp

"Reasons to Hate the Dead", in Not Fade Away: The Online World Remembers Jerry Garcia" (Gans, 1995)
The only negative essay in this book

Letter, The New Yorker (August 28, 2006)
Re: Nicolas Lemann's critique of web journalism

Magazines

Editor/Publisher, The Palindromist (1994-date)
The world's greatest palindrome magazine

Staff Reviewer, FactSheet Five (1994-8)
The zine bible

Online

Writer/Editor, The Skeleton Closet (www.realchange.org)
All the Scandals on Everyone Running For President

Co-Host (with Howard Rheingold), Virtual Communities Conference, The Well (1992-5)
Blame The WELL for me being a writer

Wikipedia (ongoing) contributions

Metafilter (ongoing) contributions

Wine Labels

Three Rings Barossa Valley Shiraz, 2004 Vintage