01/03:	Vote for your favorite stories in Analog in 2001. See my summary of the magazine's year for some of my thoughts on the matter.
01/03:	Where do you stand in the geek hierarchy?
01/12:	Apple's new iMac has gotten as much press as anything in the computer industry (other than the Microsoft trial) in a couple of years. It looks pretty nifty. Even my Mom said she covets one! An SFGate columnist pokes some fun at Apple and its new product.
01/12:	Rebekah Robertson has a new Weblog.
01/12:	The Geek Hierarchy is one of the funniest things I've read in several months.
01/27:	Windows XP's "product activation" is just one more way Microsoft is trying to maintain their monopoly. Too bad they can't do it with superior-quality products.
01/27:	Wallace and Gromit cartoon shorts are coming to the Web!
01/27:	Monique notes that my expression of my love of ribs somehow sums me up for her.
01/27:	My friend Jim is buying a house. Congrats, Jim!
02/01:	If you're a fan of his, then check out The Ultimate Cary Grant Pages.
02/25:	How to get a towboat under a low bridge.
02/25:	The Freak Watcher's Textbook, a somewhat off-color guide to the weirdos of America.
02/25:	The Microsoft Media Player is logging the songs and movies people play with it. Yet another way Microsoft wants to control your life.
02/25:	BaseballLibrary.com is an impressive source of baseball information and news, including some historical transaction data (which is how I found it).
03/05:	The Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List is a publicly-voted list. Send in your votes, if you're so inclined!
03/05:	The Artist Shop is an on-line store for independent progressive rock music.
03/05:	Snufkin's Electronic Bum is the on-line archive for the fanzine by my English acquaintance Maureen Kincaid Speller. (I'm not sure how up-to-date this site is.)
03/07:	Stick Software is a shareware company that produces programs for Mac OS X. It's wholly owned and operated by my former cow-orker, Ben Haller.
03/17:	An article about the latest Star Trek spinoff, Enterprise. It makes some good points about the essential nastiness and retrograde attitudes of the series, though overall I think it's basically a pretty bland series, much like its 80s and 90s predecessors.
03/17:	Forbes estimates the value of the various baseball franchises. An interesting reference given Bud Selig's reprehensible edict to start enforcing a little-known restriction on franchise debts.
04/02:	Flo Control is a clever and amusing explanation of animal control technology - specifically, a computer-controlled cat door which detects when it should and should not let the house's cat (and other animals) enter the building.
04/02:	Sinfest is a hilarious and biting cartoon about human (and animal) nature. It's irreverent and adult-themed (though by no means pornographic), drawing on a wide range of cultural subjects and well-drawn. Fans of Liberty Meadows should love it.
04/02:	iBeach is a creative animated short depicting flatpanel iMacs frolicking in the sun and surf. Limbo down, dudes!
04/03:	You know you need an incredible rubber-band machine-gun!
04/03:	Mac OS X hidden secrets revealed! Or not.
04/03:	Some days it doesn't pay to get out of bed: After switching from running on UNIX to Windows 2000, an anti-UNIX Web site suddenly went off-line.
04/06:	ProgRadio.net is a central location for many progressive rock radio stations available over the Internet, including Aural Moon, ProgRock.com, Progged, Prog2k and Splunge. Of these, I enjoy Aural Moon the most, and then ProgRock. The others tend to veer a little too far toward prog-metal or just plain weird prog for my tastes. However, from the few times I've listened to it, the Canvas Prog Hour (see schedule at ProgRock.com) is well worth listening to on any of those stations.
04/06:	ProgLands is "the site to learn about progressive rock". It seems like a decent overview of a number of bands and albums, but doesn't go into a lot of depth.
04/10:	Looks like the terrorist attack in the Pentagon was a hoax, doesn't it? Not so fast. There's a lot of shoddy reasoning in those pages.
04/10:	George Lucas is full of hot air when he (or anyone else) claims that Star Wars is based on great human fantasy epics. It's really based on old science fiction stories and movies, as anyone who hasn't bought into the Lucas mystique knows.
04/21:	The Nando Sports Server has archives of all Major League Baseball games back to 1995. It's not well-indexed if you don't know the date of what you're looking for, but it's otherwise quite complete.
04/21:	Rany Jazayerli writes a touching article about Tigers pitcher Adam Pettyjohn, who is recovering from ulcerative colitis.
04/21:	KatWALLks is a sort of wall-mounted habitrail system for cats. Just what I need.
04/24:	The TronBook is a modified case for the current G3 iBook where the white coloring of the plastic has been stripped and replaced with a deep blue to give it a futuristic look.
04/24:	Is Apple Computer a tool of Satan? Probably not; it seems that site is likely a hoax (and apparently has also been taken down).
05/10:	The Sports Guy writes about the woeful Tampa Bay Devil Rays. If you're a baseball fan, this might be the funniest thing you'll read this year.
05/13:	Tonight's quake was magnitude 5.5 and was centered near Gilroy. See where the quake was felt, and if you felt it, tell the US Geological Survey.
05/21:	Well, that didn't take long: Sony Music's heralded CD copy-protection scheme was cracked using a simple felt-tip marker. I find the actions of the record industry in the digital music wars to be heinous in the extreme, so I'm happy to laugh at the Sony Music bozos and their silly little failure. Look, aren't they adorable!
06/21:	Victoria Gwaed has a LiveJournal. She's a woman I used to know back when I was in APA Centauri. Sounds like she'll be moving to San Francisco soon.
06/27:	Parodies of Apple's new switcher ads: Bill Gates, and Big Brother. Also, the Mac OS X Sonata.
06/27:	Planning to conquer the world? Better visit Villain Supply first.
07/10:	Where do you fall on the Political Compass? Unsurprisingly, I'm basically a left-libertarian type (by their terminology). This page basically serves the same purpose as The World's Smallest Political Quiz.
07/28:	Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley is an entertaining and well-drawn comic strip about a man, his dumb-but-lovable dog, and his conniving-and-vicious (but dumb) Siamese cat. Bonus points for knowing who the animals were named after! There are two collections of the strip so far.
08/04:	Dave McNally's Lyrics Archive doesn't look complete, but I did manage to find lyrics to the Buggles' two albums there, and that's gotta count for something.
08/06:	I'm not much for watching bad movies, but I do enjoy reading about bad movies. If you enjoy that too, then you might like badmovies.org.
08/13:	Why We Must Invade Iraq Right Now! is a hilarious Flash cartoon.
08/13:	Pro Football Prospectus seems to be a site for football by some of the creators of the Baseball Prospectus. They're even publishing a Pro Football Prospectus book later this month.
08/16:	I've previously expressed my disagreement with the Baseball Prospectus staff over the value of a revenue sharing plan for Major League Baseball. Well, Derek Zumsteg came up with one which essentially addresses the issues I think need to be addressed, while tackling some of the problems with incentives that some have with more basic revenue-sharing plans. I like it.
08/18:	How would you like to be put into a prison camp simply because you're suspected of being part of a terrorist network? According to this article, Attorney General John Ashcroft wants to be able to do just that, to any American citizen. What's next, forcing children to say the Pledge of Allegiance? Oh, wait, they're already trying to do that. Why did we elect Bush again?
08/26:	SFGate has live camera views of San Francisco, for your viewing pleasure.
09/02:	Did you know that Neil Gaiman has an on-line journal? Well, he does.
09/18:	See the entire Lord of the Rings film adaptation in only nine minutes! And lots of megabytes of downloading, of course.
09/18:	An analysis of the Gateway Profile and its attempt to "scoop" the flat panel iMac.
09/30:	My friend CJ has had a rough couple of weeks: First her kitten Bishie broke his foot, and then her cat Tab Hunter passed away. Tab was a pretty independent cat, but he let me pet him and said hi to me from time to time. He'll be missed. It sounds like Bishie has plenty of energy to fill the cat void in the house, though; I think the Yorkies will be a bit surprised when he grows bigger than them!
10/07:	Xeney's forum includes a thread listing numerous journal entries about this year's JournalCon.
10/08:	In case you haven't read enough JournalCon entries, Jen Wade is collecting them here. Oddly, she's also collecting them here, but the first list is longer.
10/20:	Computer Stupidities is a collection of stories about stupid or clueless computer users. Some of these are urban legends, but most of them are hilariously funny. For what it's worth, I've been hearing stories like these back as far as 1990, and I know many of them date back to the early 80s, if not earlier.
10/30:	Lynn Johnston plans to end her long-running comic strip For Better or For Worse within the next five years.
10/30:	The California Coastal Records Project will eventually photograph the entire California coast. It's more than half-done already, and apparently has been used in lawsuits over illegal coastline modification. The photos are beautiful.
11/18:	The Grand Comic Book Database is, well, a huge database of published comics. If you're into that sort of thing, here it is!
11/18:	Comic book writer and novelist Peter David has a Weblog.
12/31:	Lucy Huntzinger is ending her on-line journal with the close of the year. You'll be missed, Lucy!
12/31:	On the other hand, Diane Patterson has resumed writing in her journal after a lengthy hiatus.