20 December 2000

  • Email is being heralded everywhere as the next best thing.
  • Cometh the hour, cometh the man: with no reaction on Wall St. to the President-elect, enter Greenspan.
  • Sony moves forty thousand fake dogs in four weeks.
  • Apple may take the most heat, but it's still the strongest.
  • Two rigorous studies find no link between cell phones and brain cancer (though a surprising connection found with poor etiquette, frosted perms, and shouting).
  • Online ad spending slowed in November, suggesting a peak. [wsj]
  • The Fool explains the fool in each of us: why dot-consultants have done poorly.
  • Remember playing Pitfall? Some people never stopped: the perfect game of snakes and ladders.
  • Advanced placements tests now want Java, not C++.
  • Onvia.com cuts 180.
  • Robot26 has some nice coding and a section about robots and monkeys. Thank god.
  • An original mind: how Aldous Huxley avoided the conventions of his time.
  • Vote for Chris Christmas Rodriguez.