January 2002

Kazaa is up for sale. Thanks to copyright. But file swapping continues.

The new iMac was designed by Jonathan Ive. (Aside: Onion spoof.)

.name is out. Domain name prices should continue crashing.

Microsoft will now focus on security. Thank heavens.

Mac Myths for Windows users. Incidentally, I didn’t know about Apple’s open source efforts.

Kirk Kerkorian’s wife is asking for $323,000 a month for child support. Here’s the breakup of that figure. But then, Kerkorian’s the 29th richest man.

Google news. Life just gets better by the day.

Bad patents.

An update on coincidencedesign.com. I got a mail from “Your Biggest Fan”. It’s a hoax, after all.

PhotoSIG: a community of photographers.

MSN messenger emoticons.

Google reduces need for domain names.

Ironic. Andersen investigates the FBI while the FBI investigates Andersen.

I opted out of many popup ads. Not that I particularly mind them… I just wanted to test out the code.

Straight Dope tells me that lorem ipsum dolor sit… is not complete nonsense after all. It’s based on a speech by Cicero.

I read my palm online.

Life at Google still sounds like fun.

The Leidenfrost effect is what lets you walk over hot coal.

My blogger code is B6 d t++ k++ s u- f+ i o- x– e+ l c. So?

A small Flash file was sent to a group of artists and designers with the instruction: change what you want; send back the results.