14 December 2000 By The Morning News — 14 Dec 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.