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2001 in retrospect: Google.

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

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

Lord of the Rings now tops the IMDb Top 250.

I’m on vacation till 2nd Jan.

Hacking and social engineering.

Grammer: the first casualty of war. Funny.

The world’s funniest joke.

Scripting News awards of 2001 for the best blogs.

News is free. Very good.

An interesting response to FBI’s demand to hand over login and password data.

Why does free software exist? An interesting article.

If it is to be believed, then coincidence design is the creepiest website I’ve ever visited.

Google catalog. For mail order catalogs.

Linking to illegal sites is illegal. But if you just type the URL like http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/ that’s fine.

Fellowship of the Ring. Releasing shortly.

Thinking over it, Megway’s probably better than Segway.

Simple ways to increase the computing power of your desktop.

A whole lot of webloggers linked to KPMG once they heard about this letter.

The FBI snoops around and raids campuses. Virus fighters are trying to hold out.