Headlines from December 19, 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.
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