Ad Nauseam was a web zine I produced between August 5th, 1995 and February 22nd, 1998. It was nominated for a 1997 Webby Award (in the Weird category), mostly on the strength of the astonishingly widespread and visceral response to a piece I wrote, "Breakfast at Fry's".

Today I view Ad Nauseam as a kind of artifact, a representative of the (sorry) state of my writing ability in that period as well as a time capsule of the issues I confronted during my tenure as a software engineer in various Silicon Valley startups. I've kept Ad Nauseam on ice for nearly a decade and now present it in amber—warts, typos, mistakes, libel, egregious errors, all of it. The only modifications I've made are to correct internal hyperlinks so they point to my new web host and my new email address.

Ad Nauseam went through three major design changes. The first is mostly lost, although all the content of that original edition remains intact (most notably the essay I penned one dark and stormy night that kicked everything off, "Corporate crap hits the cyberfan").

The second "classic" incarnation ("Ad Nauseam 2.0") can be found here.

The third and final incarnation ("Ad Nauseam 3.0") can be found here.

Two years ago a librarian asked me to submit paper copies of Ad Nauseam to the San Francisco Public Library's zine collection. I could never convince myself that an ezine like Ad Nauseam deserved to be archived on paper. In preparation, however, I wrote a rather angry retrospective of it and my time in Silicon Valley, "Still Nauseous: Ad Nauseam Ten Years On".