| daily links: december 2000 |
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12.4.00
You know what? I spent half an hour looking for just one decent link to put on here today and couldn't find any. No good news stories, no interesting new web sites, nothing. So let's hope something happens by tomorrow. |
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12.5.00
ABCnews.com—O.J. involved in road rage incident
Wired News—OSX beta testers writing apps to make new Aqua interface function more like the traditional Mac OS
USA Today—Robert Smigel, the Funniest Man on Television, gets his own show on Comedy Central
Disturbing Search Requests—Actual search requests pulled from the logs of various web sites
Space.com—Mars home to ancient lakes
Julian Cope—Official site |
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12.6.00
The GOLEM Project—Distributed computing effort to evolve simple robotic forms
ABCnews.com—Giant pandas en route to National Zoo
Salon.com—Sloppy products are standard from American tech companies
Wired News—Germans are testing backpacks with GPS receivers in them to keep track of their kids
Red Herring—The battle over the future of smart tv
Reason Online—Super nutritious genetically engineered rice being held from distribution by anti-biotech activists |
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12.7.00
ABCnews.com—Scientists to genetically engineer hens to produce eggs with drugs in the whites
Searchterms.com—Tracks the most popular search terms on the web
USA Today—Man cleared of manslaughter charges for negligent driving while using his cell phone
Salon.com—Death by cell phone
ZDNet—IBM announces magnetic RAM
Space.com—New Hubble photos show starlight "pushing" clumps of dust together to form larger particles |
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12.8.00
CNN.com—British professor to implant a chip that interacts with his nervous system
ABCnews.com—Cultivating coral to help restore the shrinking reefs
Salon.com—Neighbors want man to remove holiday display that includes humping reindeer
Mr. Showbiz—Colonel Klink dies
Wired News—Genomics will be next revolution
Washington Post—Is this year's crop of ads getting too risque? |
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12.11.00
Salon.com—Welcome to the new sport of geocaching
CNN.com—Venice to revitalize itself
ABCnews.com—Chinese fish species is the latest non-native species to invade the great lakes
Wired News—Pentagon to buy communications satellites from Motorola that would have otherwise been allowed to crash into earth
Unclaimed Baggage Center—Buy the stuff that people have left behind on airplanes
Space.com—NASA successfully contacts Pioneer 6, its oldest craft still in operation |
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12.12.00
CNN.com—Tensions sometimes run high on International Space Station
Salon.com—Review of "The Blood Poets", which explores violence in American cinema
Wired News—Mathematical purists prepare to celebrate the true dawn of the new millenium
About.com—The current state of the warez culture
Space.com—New data about the universe from the XMM-Newton, the most precise X-Ray telescope
CNN.com—Massachusettes Museum of Contemporary Art helps restore a community |
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12.13.00
ABCnews.com—Maryland town bans public smoking
Wired News—Celera Genomics, a for-profit group seeking to map the human genome, refuses to make their findings public
MSNBC—Fake ID web site shut down by FTC
CNN.com—Is ecommerce bad for the environment?
SurvivorSucks.com—This is actually a fan site for the show, and features news and speculation about the upcoming second installment
USA Today—Major League Baseball owners go on unprecedented spending spree this offseason |
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12.15.00
Wired News—Mutation in fruit fly gene can double life span; humans have similar gene
ABCnews.com—Source of Amazon river located
Salon.com—Reporters fined $100 per minute for refusing to hand over an unpublished interview
Space.com—Mars Global Surveyor's mission extended
USA Today—Chernobyl shuts down for good
CNN.com—New Gameboys coming from Nintendo |
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12.18.00
ABCnews.com—Teenage fake caught impersonating a doctor at a Virginia hospital
Wired News—Many online workers getting a pink slip under the tree this year
Space.com—Galileo discovers ocean on Ganymede
CNN.com—Sweden's seasonal ice hotel is open for business again
Washington Post—Private "about last night" email makes the rounds in England
Geek Press—Links to tech news and bizarre stories |
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12.19.00
ABCnews.com—Gorillas at LA zoo escape on regular basis
Yahoo News—Genetically modified potato glows when it needs water
Salon.com—German ambassador caught chopping down protected species for his Christmas tree
USA Today—Media campaign begins for Lord of the Rings trilogy, which opens 1 year from today
Hot Air—Postal experiments
Wired News—2000 was Microsoft's worst year ever; 2001 doesn't look much better |
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12.20.00
Salon.com—Tiger Woods says identity was stolen
ABCnews.com—Child killer may have fed victim to neighbors
Wired News—Airbus to build 555 passenger superjet
MSNBC—Blockbuster launches DSL-based movies-on-demand service
ZDNet—Napster urged by German government to prevent swapping of Nazi and skinhead music on their service
X-Entertainment—Things people argue about while playing Monopoly |
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12.21.00
ABCnews.com—Prisoner sues Penthouse; says Paula Jones pictorial wasn't revealing enough
Wired News—Robotic insects could be future of space exploration
Salon.com—Stealing the Christmas tree
New Scientist—Using dynamite as a meat tenderizer
CNN.com—European Mars explorer landing site selected
ZDNet—Warner Bros. demands ownership of domain names of several Harry Potter fan sites |
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