2002

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.

Ender’s Game is a pretty good book.

I drew Dumbo.

A truly inspired way of describing DeCSS: DeCSS haikus. (I hope linking to it is not illegal.)

Finally managed to put a decent photo of myself on my home page. (OK, “decent” is a matter of opinion.)

Surrealism.

kuro5hin: like slashdot, but not just techie.

Lord of the Rings now tops the IMDb Top 250.

Fun with words: anagrams, palindromes, oxymora, etc.

Some people have nothing better to do than burn Harry Potter books.

2001 in retrospect: Google.