| daily links: november 2000 |
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11.01.00
Movie-a-Minute—60 second movie synopses.
ABCnews.com—Microsoft unable to catch hacker
Wired News—Napster sells out. Maybe.
Moon Hoax—Claims that we didn't land men on the moon. I don't agree with this, but it is fascinating to get such a clear view into the mind of a conspiracy freak.
Salon.com—SpeedDating
Rotten Television—Site for the VH-1 show hosted by Johnny Rotten, who I am beginning to think is the smartest man on earth |
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11.06.00
LA Times—Scientists may have proven the existence of the Higgs boson particle, the "god particle"
Wired News—Microsoft hacked again
Salon.com—Grease theft
Federation of American Scientists—Site that monitors semi-covert activity by the American government
ABCnews.com—Surgery begins to separate conjoined twins
SETI@Home—Join the most successful distributed computing effort to date in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence |
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11.07.00
ABCnews.com—VoyeurDorm cyberbusiness ordered out of residential neighborhood
K10K—Webzine that focuses on design issues
Wired News—Hack your legos
Salon.com—Pets.com is now officially fucked. That's what they get for screwing with Triumph.
USA Today—Russians abandon Kursk recovery
Rob Neyer—Personal site for ESPN.com baseball columnist |
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11.08.00
Wired News—Biometric technology used to screen out undesirables in the Netherlands
ABCnews.com—Voting irregularities and a close vote in Florida could complicate the Presidential election
Slashdot—Lucasfilm allows distribution of Star Wars fan films
Slate—Should we get rid of the electoral college?
Salon.com—Jesse Jackson questions voter irregularities in Florida, in particular reports of underreporting in minority communities
Silicon Zoo—Collection of images that have been imprinted on to microchips |
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11.13.00
ABCnews.com—Courts getting involved in Florida election disputes
Salon.com—Israeli absentee voters could determine Florida election
Wired News—Disputes over new Top Level Domains could get ugly
Snow Crystals—See how snowflakes grow
Reason—Some thoughts on the future of nanotechnology
FastCompany—PBS adopts a better business model to help sustain their growth in the future |
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11.14.00
USA Today—This just frightens me...
Salon.com—Can this election end civilly and quickly?
ABCnews.com—Postal rate increase
Wired News—New web browser uses cube metaphor
HavenCo—Abandoned oil platform transformed into micronation in order to make your secure data safe from legal retrieval
USA Today—More theories on how the election could end |
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11.15.00
Wired News—Trying to recover Archimedes manuscript
MSNBC—Various companies try to devise new ways to get you to listen to new music
Salon.com—Overview of recent developments in Florida
ABCnews.com—Exploring an underwater mountain
USA Today—Absentee ballots could determine outcome
Yahoo! News—Netscape 6 released |
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11.16.00
USA Today—Bush and Gore offer proposals to end election deadlock; each reject the other's proposal
Salon.com—Gore takes to the airwaves vowing to fight on
Wired News—Sega uses PS2 shortage to push Dreamcast
MSNBC—Review of Netscape 6
Sun-Sentinel—Flash version of Palm Beach County ballot
Yahoo! News—How the Egyptians aligned the pyramids |
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11.17.00
ABCnews.com—ICANN approves new domain name extensions; as my boss said, they .suck
Wired News—Do we really need new top level domains?
Salon.com—Candidates wait on judge's decision
Matrix Legos—Custom lego site featuring scens from "The Matrix" redone in lego form
Roadside America—Eclectic guide to American roadside attractions
MSNBC—Yahoo! to make fees for commercial listings mandatory |
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11.28.00
ABCnews.com—Clinton to consider a pardon for Leonard Peltier before he leaves office
Wired News—Stephen King to cease publication of his pay-as-you-go online novel "The Plant"
Salon.com—Drive-through strip club
USA Today—Obligatory election coverage link
David Blaine—Magician freezes himself in blockof ice for three days
Darwin Awards—The Y2K winners |
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11.29.00
Wired News—Germans up in arms over Mad Cow disease
Salon.com—Election supervisor applies double standard in Seminole County
USA Today—New "cloud-like" Guggenheim designed by Gehry under consideration in Manhattan
Magic 8-Ball—A site where you can ask the 8-ball a question, and a lego robot will shake it for you and show you the answer
San Jose Mercury News—Man who drove through more than 700 toll booths without paying ordered to pay $7000 restitution
The Filthy Critic—Yikes. You know that inner voice that keeps you from saying really nasty things in public? He doesn't have one. |
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11.30.00
Maccentral—Can Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) replace LCD?
ABCnews.com—Stand of trees in German forest that looks like a swastika from the air to be destroyed
Wired News—Voice lie detector used on presidential debates
Salon.com—Heinz must overfill ketchup containers for a year to make up for shorting customers
MSNBC—Renaissance fairs gaining popularity
Space.com—NASA will attempt to contact its oldest spacecraft |
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