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A Few Nice Things
We can all use some nice things. The illustration above is from Charlie Mackesy's book The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse, a gentle book about love and friendship and how they build resilience; about hopes and fears; about courage in difficult times. It's a...
PRICE CUTS ON PENTIUM III SYSTEMS
If you're looking for a new computer, you should wait another two weeks and then buy a Windows XP system from Dell. But if your budget simply requires a discount, look for cheap...
DISASTER: MORE ON BIN LADEN
I mentioned a couple of background articles on Osama Bin Laden earlier this week, but here's what wasn't covered by those articles - a concise (and scary) description of what he...
NEWS JUNKIES
I find I'm spending more and more time at Slate Magazine for news and politics. A particularly valuable daily feature is called "Today's Papers," which compares the front pages...
DISASTER: RELIGIOUS RIGHT
Despite past differences, you may have the impression that America has been united by this tragedy. I offer this without further comment. According to The Washington Post and the...
DISASTER: CIVIL LIBERTIES
The nation is entering into a debate about the relationship between privacy and national security. Regardless of where you stand, encourage the debate to be fair, reasonable, and...
DISASTER: E-MAIL HOAXES
The World Trade Center disaster has already generated a tremendous amount of e-mail spam and chain letters. As this article points out, you can count on a lot of hoaxes to be...
DISASTER: COMMENTARY
A thought-provoking commentary on the disaster and the reactions to it. You may want to hit the author, Alexander Cockburn, by the end of it (complain to him, not me), but I...
DISASTER: VICTIMS
For some reason, this list of World Trade Center tenants touched me more deeply than some of the horrific photos.
DISASTER: OSAMA BIN LADEN
I found these to be helpful - a short article about Osama Bin Laden's background, and a list of questions and answers about bin Laden.
DISASTER: PHOTOS
If the news sites are slow to load, this site has all of today's AP photos collected together.
COPYRIGHT ISSUES GET WORSE
"It is unlawful to manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide or otherwise traffic in any interactive digital device that does not include and utilize certified [Digital...
COOKIE BLOCKING
Internet security is the buzzword of the moment. There's a lot of paranoia about privacy these days. Some of it is justified. For what it's worth, I tend to think that cookies do...
MUSIC DOWNLOADS ON THE RISE
According to a new study, more than 3.05 billion files were exchanged over four file sharing systems in August - and that's more than Napster at its peak in February, when 2.79...
WINDOWS 2000 TIPS
Here's a collection of Windows 2000 hints & tips that might come in handy. How to change drive letters, how to prevent programs from loading at startup, how to open a command...
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WILL NOT SEEK MICROSOFT BREAKUP
The Justice Department announced today that it will not seek a breakup of Microsoft into separate operating systems and applications businesses. Instead, the government will...