14 December 2000

  • FTC approves AOL/TW merger.
  • Change that password! Companies are frequently hacked by former or current employees.
  • How X will work with W: the new President's initiatives for online smut (he favors library filtering).
  • Organic (270), RealNames (1/3), and Bigstep (34) pass out pink slips.
  • MarchFirst finds $150M to stay alive (looks like they're moving into Union Square after all).
  • Sony wants to have 1.3M PS2s in stores by Jan. 1. [wsj]
  • Why language advocacy is bad for the Perl community.
  • Sonic360 offers all the sushi you can handle.
  • Whiskey, cigarettes, and Chopin: the Polish government wants to rein in Chopin's brand.
  • PixelIndustries is yet another online design company.
  • Some nice photography at blurred Berlin.