19 December 2000

  • The year in technology: layoffs, sales, and platforms. [wsj]
  • How AOL plans to unify the media cosmos.
  • Can Apple survive and still be revolutionary?
  • How the brain knows what it knows: the extraction of meaning in steams of information.
  • Rep. Dick Armey moves to investigate Carnivore, despite the Justice Department's stonewalling.
  • How e-commerce sites reconfigured themselves to prepare for the holidays.
  • Ordering books online is worse for the environment than visiting your local bookstore.
  • MP3.com moves into Muzak territory for new revenue.
  • Leon Theremin was a spy and the father of electronica.
  • Iraq is buying PS2s to study for weapons systems.
  • RedHerring lays off 32.
  • MVP.com lays off 79; Gretsky reportedly "in tears."
  • New True is True is subtle as hell.
  • You should read every article in Art & Culture.
  • Designer of the first degree: Susan Kare defined our experience.