01/05:	See your favorite superheroes vanquish evil with the help of Hostess snack foods! Anyone who grew up on comics in the 1970s probably remembers these advertisements from the books of the era.
01/05:	Technosphere is a simulation of an abstract wilderness. You can create creatures on their site and get updates about how your creatures are doing. Seems to be in the very early stages with a lot of complexity left to add, but a neat idea. (Thanks to Jenn.)
01/14:	A Fortune article on Apple's Internet strategy announcement, with an interesting interview with Steve Jobs.
01/14:	Rich's Ramblings is a comic book rumors and news site which has apparently been somewhat controversial.
01/17:	Mysteriously, the official Galaxy Quest web site is hosted at Amazon.com.
01/17:	Travis Latke's Galaxy Quest Page is presented as if the film is a sequel to an actual 1970s TV series. Indeed, when I first heard of the movie, it took me a bit of digging on the net to prove to my satisfaction that Galaxy Quest in fact had never existed. I was actually afraid for a little while that it was some lousy eight-episode show that I'd never heard of! Anyway, this page is a highly-developed piece of geekspace.
01/20:	An interesting essay on "Big Ball of Mud" programming which we've been discussing a lot lately on CJ's journal's club.
01/20:	Sequential Tart (love that name!) appears to be a female-oriented comic book fanzine. Haven't delved into it too deeply yet, but it looks interesting.
01/20:	An article on Apple's possible future Enterprise software strategy. Even though I actually work on Apple's Enterprise software (WebObjects), these sorts of decisions are made at a much higher level than I have access to, so this article is an interesting to me as to you.
01/20:	Lucy and her husband unfortunately had to bail from the housing market in the area due to the ridiculous prices and an apparent rise in the interest rate. Bummer; Lucy really wants a house. I am trying not to think much about buying anything right now. If Apple's stock is high enough in a year or so, then I'll put some thought into it. Meanwhile, I sympathize with Lucy; people in her position ought to be able to afford something decent. Sheesh!
01/29:	Nibelung is a personal Webring service, allowing you to create your own Webrings for your personal use (although their contents are public). Despite its use of Evil Frames (tm), this looks like a good solution to my problem of figuring out how to hit all of the Web sites I want to hit daily. It looks like it's already pretty popular with journallers and Webloggers.
01/29:	Lucy talks about her favorite mystery novels.
01/29:	A fascinating article on the introduction of "new" Coca-Cola in 1985, why Coke's marketing research on the subject went to drastically wrong, and how it turned out (through a complete fluke) to not be such a bad thing for the company after all.
01/29:	Interesting review of the look-and-feel (a.k.a. fit-and-finish) of Aqua, the new Mac OS X user interface. Conclusions are predictably mixed.
02/05:	The Stanford Theatre's new schedule is out. They're showing nearly every film by Alfred Hitchcock, including the restored version of Rear Window and both versions (1934 and 1956) of The Man Who Knew Too Much.
02/05:	Whump points out a twisted Web site called Furious George and the Cross-Country Crime Spree.
02/06:	In case you've been curious about the book store I prefer to patronize in the area for new books, Kepler's Books has a Web site.
02/09:	Did you miss all the Super Bowl commercials? Here's a site with some low-resolution video clips of each commercial.
02/09:	Comic book artist Gil Kane passed away a couple of weeks ago at the age of 74. Kane is probably best known as being the original artist on the 1950s (Hal Jordan) Green Lantern character, and also for his silver age work on The Atom. In the late 1950s he could perhaps reasonably lay claim to being the best artist working in the business.
02/10:	Field of Schemes is a site about sports teams holding cities and states hostage (usually by threatening to move elsewhere) to extract money for new stadiums. I generally consider public funding of sports stadiums to be a bad idea (sports teams are, by and large, amazingly rich).
02/15:	Enjoy the adventures of Action Item!
02/15:	AdCritic has the Super Bowl advertisements and many others, if you enjoy that sort of thing.
02/19:	AlphaCraze.com is another on-line bookseller, which seems to have even deeper discounts than Amazon.com. I may try ordering something from them in the future, to see how they do.
02/24:	An interesting list and analysis of a number of on-line booksellers. I recently ordered a couple of books from AlphaCraze; I'll let you know if they arrive in a timely manner. Certainly their advertised discounts are considerably deeper than Amazon.
02/24:	The Giants have already nearly sold out every home game for the 2000 season in new Pacific Bell Park. Looks like CJ and I will either be scalping tickets (many seem to be available over the net), or seeing a lot of A's games.
03/03:	Ars Technica reviews Mac OS X Developer Preview 3.
03/03:	Apple stock rose about 16 points this week due to predictions of better-than-expected second-quarter earnings. Of course, at work we joked that this really happened because Apple officially shipped WebObjects 4.5 (and in fact the Wall Street Journal had an article which stated just that, which we had a laugh over).
03/08:	I saw The Crystal Key at Fry's the other day. It looks kind of MYST-like, a highly-rendered puzzle game, and I'm wondering if it's worth buying. (Of course, it's only twenty bucks... how bad could it be?) Anyone familiar with it?
03/08:	Apple wins an injunction against two companies who copied the industrial design of their iMac consumer computer.
03/10:	Hey, everyone congratulate Lucy, since she and her husband have bought a house, after many months of looking.
03/11:	In the wake of the elections, I posted a fairly inflammatory analysis of conservatism on the message board for Tony's Online Tips, if such things interest you.
03/13:	Cape Cod Webcams is a very cool site with some well-placed, Java-driven cams at several locations on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The resolution could be better, but it's still neat. The site also has some virtual tours of each city on the Cape.
03/16:	Here's a fairly complete list of Dan Quayle quotes illustrating the doofus quality of our former Vice President. Now, for comparison, here's a set of similarly dumb comments made by George W. Bush, currently candidate for the highest office in the land. Where do the Republicans find these yo-yos?
03/16:	I've recently been enjoying The Astronomy Pic of the Day. Good pics, and some background to go with them.
03/17:	Live from, well, from somewhere-or-other, it's The Rocky Horror Muppet Show!
03/17:	Wator is a fairly cool Java simulation allowing you to see a simulation of a world inhabited by fish and sharks, and tweak the world's parameters to create a stable ecosystem. Simplistic, but fun for a short diversion.
03/25:	Kelly Holmes has a pretty neat design to her home page.
03/25:	Stanford's Web page has an amusing comparison of Macs vs. PCs. It's a bit outdated, although not a whole lot has changed other than processor MHz since it was posted, really.
03/28:	If you like mathematical puzzles (and I do), then this is cool: A database of mathematical sequences, which is searchable, and which has nice, common-sense explanations of the sequences (or, the few I looked at were sensical).
03/28:	Mac users, take note: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 is now out for the Mac. I used it at work today, and it has a quasi-Aqua look to it, and is predictably noticibly slower than 4.5 was, because, well, it's Microsoft. It still beats Netscape, though, which is mainly just an indictment of Netscape.
04/01:	A discussion thread on Tony's Online Tips' forum led to this totally hilarious post You're Too Old to be a Superhero if...
04/01:	Find out what your name's cyborg acronym stands for. My favorite so far is B.E.N.: Being Engineered for Nullification.
04/05:	Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles looks pretty interesting, but I haven't checked it out fully yet. (Courtesy Mike Gunderloy.)
04/05:	Polyamory is one of the more interesting discussions happening in CJ Silverio's forum.
04/09:	PBS will be re-running the TV adaptation of Ursula LeGuin's novel The Lathe of Heaven later this year.
04/12:	A generator of random names for techie startup companies. MetaDissimilar.net, anyone?
04/12:	Serious comics fans (and even a few casual ones) might be aware of Erik Larsen's anonymous inflammatory letter to Comics Buyer's Guide from earlier in the decade. Larsen, writer/artist of Savage Dragon, draw a line between writers and writer/artists and touched off a flame war which lasted for months.
04/12:	QuickTime movie trailers have recently been updated to include trailers for X-Men (2 trailers - trailer 2 is more informative), Dinosaur (which looks like a typical feelgood Disney film with good animation) and The Lord of the Rings. This last is more of a "pre-trailer", since the installments will be released around Christmas of 2001, 2002 and 2003, but what you can see there looks pretty neat.
04/12:	Speaking of which, here's a bunch of info and photos from the upcoming X-Men film, which might actually not suck. I definitely want a set of Cyclops sunglasses!
04/19:	Lucy writes about the journalling non-community, which I've ranted about myself on occasion. I pretty much agree with her observations.
04/19:	In further Lucy news, here's a fine example of why it's a good idea not to get her cheesed off. Lucy's rants are always so much fun!
04/22:	Edward Gorey, storyteller and illustrator, died a week ago at 75. "It was not clear if there were any survivors."
04/22:	A Lord of the Rings trailer breakdown, for those of you who can't get enough.
04/28:	For those of you who enjoy humor about the Elian Gonzalez situation, here's The Onion's infographic about his daily schedule before he was seized by federal agents. (I keep thinking about writing what I think of the whole situation, but haven't gotten up the motivation yet.)
04/28:	My friend CJ is going to a new job, but first she writes about Bill Gates visiting WebTV, and her impressions of him.
04/28:	Beyond 2000 is a series of science fiction dramas on National Public Radio. It looks interesting, but I'm rarely home when it apparently airs around here.
05/04:	My friend Rob sent me the link to this interesting article of Federal judge Richard Posner. I don't agree with many of his beliefs and positions, but he seems like an interesting guy and a useful piece of our legal machinery. Viva la difference! or something like that.
05/08:	Baseball Reference is a very neat site with loads of baseball statistics, sorted in a wide variety of manners, and with all sorts of cross-references and derived statistics. Most fun is the presence of Bill James' Similarity Scores for each player!
05/08:	I found a new source of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For on-line, so now I can keep up with it more often.
05/12:	It turns out that there will be a second sequel to MYST, entitled MYST 3: Exile, although apparently not produced by the original creators at Cyan. Apparently Cyan is working on its own furthering of the MYST world, however. The movie on the MYST 3 Web site is very much worth watching; the graphics look terrific!
05/12:	The Capability Im-Maturity Model (CIMM) is an extension of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM). The latter is used to measure the sophistication of a software company's development processes, while the former is used to measure the ineptness of particularly stupid companies. (Yes, CIMM is a joke.)
05/12:	David Manchester rants that breaking up Microsoft is letting it off too easy. (Via Whump.) This is perhaps a little on the harsh side - but not that much.
05/12:	An excellent article on how evolution is accepted science, and how and why religious fundamentalists in the US steadfastly refuse to accept this. (Via Whump.)
05/14:	If you're a fan of The Onion, then be aware that their second book, The Onion's Finest News Reporting, is out. It's a collection of many of their best articles from the paper.
05/14:	The Online Diary History Project. Lucy seems pretty excited by this. I'll probably contribute, but don't have much to add outside my own journal since I live in my own geekspace.
05/16:	Comic Book Resources has a neat article (dated May 15) on a Silver Surfer 5-minute movie which has set Hollywood abuzz. You can also download the movie or a film about the making of the short (both in Real format).
05/18:	U.S. Surname Distribution with data from four different eras (via Mike Gunderloy). For instance, the distribution for the name 'Rawdon' in 1920 and 1990.
05/18:	A massive compendium of Murphy's Law and its derivatives (also via Mike Gunderloy).
05/22:	There's an episode guide for The West Wing at epguides.com.
05/22:	Sports Night also has an episode guide at epguides.com, as well as one at The TKTV Network and a good fan page with a news section.
06/01:	Many cartoonists contributed strips in tribute to Charles Schultz, the late creator of Peanuts. Some of them are pretty good; check 'em out.
06/01:	Information on the 1858 Hadrosaurus dinosaur fossil find. Apparently it was the first nearly-complete dinosaur skeleton to be unearthed.
06/08:	Have you been enjoying reading reviews of the reputedly awful movie Battlefield Earth? If so, then check out this page collecting scores of reviews of the film. It includes a hilarious fake advertising poster for the film.
06/08:	There's a new trailer for the X-Men movie (requires QuickTime).
06/09:	Cartoonist Jeff MacNelly died earlier this week. The creator of the comic strip Shoe, he also drew hilarious cartoons for Dave Barry's newspaper columns. I'll miss him.
06/12:	Intel forced Harvard into a "cover-up" of Macintoshes at a recent exhibit at the University.
06/12:	Just what we needed to know: Yvonne Craig, TV's Batgirl, has her own Web site. (Have I ever mentioned that I hate the Adam West TV series? Hate it, hate it, hate it.)
06/13:	WebObjects training information is now on-line.
06/15:	I knew a few children of the Lazare family when I was growing up, although for the most part I don't really remember them. An interesting clan, as you can see from the article.
06/18:	Babylon 5 actor Jerry Doyle is running for Congress. He's a Republican, but nobody's perfect.
06/18:	Where's George? is my current favorite geeky Web site. You can enter the serial numbers of US bill currency you receive and see if anyone's entered it previously, or if anyone enters it later on, and watch how money circulates. A few bills in the system have as many as seven or eight hits, which is pretty impressive for a year-or-so effort.
06/20:	Scott McCloud has his own Web site.
06/20:	Comics commentary magazine The Comic Reader has its own Web site, on which McCloud has just started writing (and drawing) a column.
06/20:	Captain Comics is a good-looking site of comics reviews, commentary and analysis.
06/22:	Nina Paley, one of my favorite cartoonists, has her own Web site now. She stopped drawing several years ago apparently due to problems with her wrists, but it seems she's drawing again. Yay!
06/22:	Want to get a closer look at Apple hardware? Check out the Quicktime VR galleries on the Apple Web site. (Requires Quicktime.)
06/29:	Microsoft introduced C#, the language they hope will kill Sun's popular Java language. MS wants the language name to be pronounced "C-sharp", but I look forward to peopl alling it "C-pound" an som "sinking under its own weight" jokes. At any rate, how much trust should we put in a company whose main claim to fame in the language game is BASIC?
06/29:	The Official Rube Goldberg Web Site. (I'm not entirely sure what makes it official.) I loved Rube Goldberg as a kid, and still have the book of his cartoons that I had back then.
07/06:	For you comics fans, here's a huge site about the comics series The Avengers, complete with covers to nearly every issue. It's an impressive collection.
07/13:	At work lately I've been doing a lot of testing of our date Java class. As a result, I've learned a lot about our calendar system, and found this site about the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
07/13:	My friend Rob told me about The Well Bookshop in Australia, saying that he's ordered some items from them for very good prices due to the exchange rate.
07/13:	SF fan and Tor Books editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden has started a Weblog named Electrolite.
07/13:	An interesting article about the rise and fall of a dot-com millionaire.
07/13:	A novel approach to reducing software bugs? Probably just a novel approach to reducing marketing staff.
07/15:	The rules of the game Mafia. (via Whump)
07/20:	The Periodic Table of Comic Books, a periodic table of the elements with panels and covers from comic books which refer to each element. For comic book geeks only.
07/20:	Dark Passage, a site about amateur investigations of urban sites of historical interest. Looks neat, but I've only scratched the surface of it. [via Mike Gunderloy]
07/20:	An article by the San Francisco Giants head trainer on their efforts to reduce injuries to their players. Combines their study of what sort of training their players should undergo to reduce injuries with an analysis of the results. Short and fascinating.
07/21:	The Celebrity Match-Maker and the Celebrity Match-Maker for Men are frivolous but briefly amusing. The latter matched me with Lauryn Hill, about whom I know nearly nothing.
07/21:	Ever wondered how much data is contained in a Megabyte? A Gigabyte? A Terabyte? The Data Powers of Ten page provides real-life examples of just how much data can be stored on your hard drive.
07/23:	Lucy expresses her concerns about the budding phenomenon of on-line journallers getting money for their writing through donations or sponsors. The discussion in her forum on the topic is also interesting.
07/25:	The New York Times has created a Children's Bestseller List, rumor has it because they wanted to exile the Harry Potter books from the "adult" list. I can't offhand imagine a good reason for creating such a list. As the article points out, "Instead, this week's list has a truly mature book at the top: The House on Hope Street, the latest potboiler by Danielle Steel."
07/25:	A New York Times article on movies using comic books as their source material. (Aside from the obvious Superman, Batman and X-Men films, other films with comics as their source include The Crow, Blade, Men in Black, and Mystery Men.)
07/28:	The comic book The Collective has moved on-line. The one issue I read was very intriguing; I have one other, and need to find the other two. Unfortunately, I doubt my interest will persist for an on-line comic.
07/28:	CNN article on how on-line merchants and companies are marketing to women, and why their approaches are bad ideas. I found myself relating much more to the described female shopping patterns than to the male; I rarely browse on-line, and only browse in physical stores in certain kinds of shops (comics, books, CDs).
07/28:	Untied is a web site devoted to pointing out the poor customer service provided by United Airlines. [link via Mike Gunderloy] I must admit I have found United more reliable than Northwest, but less than Midwest Express or American. On the other hand, six years ago I refused unilaterally to fly American. Plus, I am an infrequent flyer, so my experience is probably strongly influenced by random fluctuation.
08/04:	NewsEngin's Cost of Living Calculator, allows you to compare the buying power of a sum of money across eras.
08/12:	GameSpot's Myst III Exile preview has many pieces of conceptual art for the upcoming game. It looks really neat; I can't wait!
08/15:	Cunningham Strikes! is a series of amusing political satire using a fumetti (photographs-with-word-balloons) approach.
08/15:	Something called "The Fly on the Mac" reproduces a 1988 Newsweek article about Steve Jobs introducing the original NeXT computer, as well as an advertisement from Apple circa the same period. The latter's last page is amusing in that it mentions "desktop video" editing capabilities then being developed for the Mac; hey, it only took Apple another 11 years to finally ship...
08/18:	Apple painted a mural featuring Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert F. Kennedy, Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King, Jr., at the site of the Democratic Convention. See a QuickTime movie showing the mural being painted.
08/20:	A political quiz which matches you with the various 2000 Presidential candidates. I matched most closely with the Socialist candidate, then with Ralph Nader, then with Al Gore. I matched with the Natural Law candidate (!) at about 50%, and the wackos and conservatives were all 25% and lower (thank goodness!).
08/20:	My last name pops up in some interesting places. For instance, Rawdon Island Sweet Eating Cumquats.
08/20:	Pulp! is a daily cartoon by Scott Chantler which I think I will have to add to my reading list.
08/21:	The actors for the three main parts in the upcoming Harry Potter feature film have been cast. Reportedly, director Chris Columbus wanted an American for the role of Harry, while author J. K. Rowling wanted a British boy.
08/21:	A site documenting the history of the development of the Macintosh computer.
08/22:	Alan Moore is still not friendly with DC Comics, and is not involved in the 15th anniversary of Watchmen project that DC is releasing this year.
08/22:	MYST III Exile has a Web site.
08/27:	Especially fanatical Red Sox fans will want to check out this page about Red Sox player contracts.
08/27:	President Clinton's Final Days is a hilarious movie which (I've been told) Clinton and his staff put together as a gag to present to the press. It must be seen!
08/27:	Threeway Action is a bulletin board for journallers. The joke, of course, is that "three-way action" is an oft-seen phrase in porn spam. Eleanor and Jen were talking about the board at Lucy's party last night, but I haven't yet partaken.
08/31:	Take TheSpark.com's Personality Test. You can also enter the e-mail addresses of people you know to find out how compatible you are with them (if you believe such things). I used my Spies e-mail address if you want to check against me, for instance. I'm a Judge. David Zink has put up a list of personality types defined by the test.
09/01:	Take The Wall Street Journal's test to determine the best places in the country for you to live. It tells me that my best places are Long Island NY, Boston (MA-NH-ME), Bergen-Passaic NJ, Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon NJ, and Washington (DC-MD-VA-WV). I have a hard time imagining myself in New Jersey.
09/04:	Fly on the Mac presents a 1990 ad introducing the NeXTstation.
09/07:	Inside Trek is a site by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's one-time assistant Susan Sackett. Although its view of Trek history is naturally Roddenberry-centric (I think his role in the show's success is rather exaggerated), it does have some interesting tidbits and a number of neat photos.
09/07:	Doctor Cyborg is a daily adventure strip, similar to Pulp! which I referred to a few weeks back. It's both wry and serious in tone. You can also read it at CToons. Artist Mike Oeming is also the artist for the Image comic book Powers.
09/07:	Notice that the Republicans have been making fun of Al Gore's claim to have "invented the Internet"? Well, it turns out that Gore didn't claim any such thing. This article provides the best explanation of why the 'Pubs are full of it on this topic that I've seen (though I still think Gore could have worded his explanation more clearly).
09/07:	A transcript of George Carlin's hilarious comparison of baseball and football. It's even funnier with his delivery, but this is the next best thing.
09/15:	Some NASA scientists believe we could build a space elevator within 50 years.
09/15:	An unofficial survey about which DC Comics Archives Editions fans would like to see published next.
09/15:	As CJ put it when she pointed this out to me, here's more bad news for people who live in Silicon Valley.
09/15:	Space1999 Net focuses on the cheesy '70s TV series. This was one of my favorite shows when I was 6, but it doesn't age well at all. It actually uses almost the same formula as Star Trek: The Next Generation, counting on set design and special effects to overcome bad stories, bad characterizations, and bad science.
09/15:	Comics Continuum is another comic book news & rumor site.
09/19:	A new Superman TV series is being contemplated, even as a fifth Batman movie, based on Frank Miller's Year One story, is in the works.
09/25:	The Cynics Corner features scathing reviews of more recent Star Trek episodes and several other SF TV series. For people who like rippingly nasty reviews of bad television.
09/25:	CNN reports on how the Apple iBook markets itself at the Olympics.
09/25:	Yahoo provides early customer reports on the Mac OS X Public Beta.
09/29:	AOL's filter blocks out some major liberal Web sites while allowing comparable conservative ones. It's not clear that this is a deliberate bias, although since the mainstream media (who own AOL) are largely conservative in their outlook, it wouldn't surprise me.
09/29:	Wonderful news! The FDA has approved RU-486 for use in the United States. If handled properly, the "abortion pill" could usher in a new era in women's reproductive health and freedom in this country. The anti-abortion fanatics, of course, are already issuing veiled threats against the safety of doctors who prescribe the pill.
10/03:	Information on the upcoming Harry Potter movie, with various conjectures about the casting of the supporting characters.
10/03:	Potlatch 10 will be held in San Francisco in early 2001. It's a smallish convention about reading and writing speculative fiction. I've often heard good things about it, so perhaps I will go this time.
10/03:	What flavor are you? I turned out to be dark chocolate, to my surprise.
10/03:	Mudpie is the code name for Cyan's next game. They're the ones who created the excellent MYST and Riven. Looks like it will be a couple of years before it's available.
10/10:	Whump refers to a number of links about Benford's Law, an empirical law describing the nature of non-random numbers. It's pretty interesting. Check out Bill's Statistics Weblog for 9 October 2000 for more links.
10/10:	I basically agree with CJ's point that the spread of "SF lite" (a.k.a. "science fantasy") as exemplified by Star Trek novels and Anne McCaffrey/Pern books is one of the biggest problems facing science fiction as a viable form of literature.
10/17:	TinyTIM is a ten-year-old MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) which I frequented way back in school in 1990-93. I had a lot of fun on it, and recently rediscovered it, and miraculously even remembered my character's name and password. I doubt I'll get real involved in it again, but it's a neat blast of nostalgia for me.
10/17:	The Artesia Resources Page is a Web page devoted to Mark Smylie's comic book Artesia.
10/17:	Am I Hot or Not? is a fairly ridiculous Web site. Men and women can put up photos of themselves, and be rated on a 1-to-10 scale by the Great Unwashed. The usual hoaxes and jokes that you might expect abound (nude photos, for instance, despite being explicitly forbidden). I was amused that Britney Spears only rates a 7 among the Great Unwashed.
10/19:	Sex columnist Dan Savage on Ralph Nader. He doesn't see much point in voting for Nader. I'm not sure I do, either.
10/19:	Regrettably, Scott Chantler has decided to discontinue his daily on-line adventure strip, Pulp! It was fun while it lasted, even if it stopped in mid-story. This on the heels of Tony Isabella ending his daily on-line column.
10/20:	Sports Night re-runs will soon be shown on Comedy Central.
10/20:	The Quake 3-D rendering engine is being used to allow architects and their clients to explore building designs in a virtual world.
10/23:	My friend Rebekah is about to leave for Mozambique for two years in the Peace Corps. She's set up a Weblog, Thoughts from Moz, to write in when she has a chance to get on-line out there, for anyone curious to follow her adventures.
10/27:	I was delighted to read that TV ratings for the execrable Noo Yawk subway series set a record low for viewership. The Yorkies won in 5 games. I hope all the Mets fans went home miserable. Now we can all look forward to next year. The offseason is a welcome respite from Yorkie victories.
11/03:	Zocalo Today is a Babylon 5 universe news site which seems to be more regularly updated than the Lurker's Guide. It seems to have started out as a site to save the ill-fated spin-off series Crusade.
11/03:	J. Michael Straczynski writes a regular column at Psycomic.com.
11/03:	The ridiculous judgment of hockey player Tony Twist over comics creator Todd McFarlane has been overturned by a judge. A jury had awarded Twist over $24 million in damages due to McFarlane's use of Twist's name for a crime lord in his Spawn comic books.
11/05:	The American Film Institute's List of Top 100 American Films, for those who haven't seen it (via Mo). A quick count says I've seen 48 of the films, which seems not bad. Of the top ten, I've missed only The Godfather and The Graduate
11/07:	A QuickTime movie preview of RealMYST, the upcoming real-time-enhanced version of the terrific computer game MYST.
11/11:	FLASH! Hackers for Nader boost Green party candidate to the Presidency!
11/14:	The Komodo Server from DA Computing. Does it look familiar?
11/14:	You must read this week's election coverage by The Onion.
11/18:	Comic book writer Warren Ellis is interviewed about his excellent series Planetary.
11/18:	The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, an on-line reference project. It looks like it's still in its formative stages.
11/24:	Mac Central reports on a web site named Appelele with a number of suggested designed for future Apple Macintosh products. The images are very well done, and some of the designs are intriguing, although others are godawful ugly.
11/24:	Rebekah Robertson has posted her first Weblog entry from Mozambique.
11/29:	Yesterday I received a couple of virus hoaxes in the mail, and I replied to them pointing out that they're hoaxes. So I thought I'd publicize Symantec's good virus hoax information site.
12/11:	The Miami Herald suggests that in a glitch-free election, Gore would have won the Florida vote.
12/11:	Today Alex Rodriguez signed the largest deal in professional sport history, 10 years for $252 million with the Texas Ranges. ESPN features an entertaining article about just how much money a quarter of a billion dollars is. (Later in the day, my Boston Red Sox signed Manny Ramirez to the second-largest deal in baseball, 8 years at $160 million.)
12/14:	A Wrinkle in Time seems to be a science fiction-themed store in nearby Sunnyvale. I haven't yet gone there. It's not clear from their Web site if they're a bookstore or what; it seems more likely that they specialize in (yawn) memorabilia.
12/14:	Not only do I have an Amazon Wish List, but now I have an Amazon UK Wish List.
12/14:	There will be a partial solar eclipse on Christmas Day. The link tells you when to look for it and how much of the sun will be eclipsed in each region. (In the continental US, you want to be in the north.)
12/16:	In 1958, photographer Art Kane took a photo of dozens of jazz personalities in Harlem. I saw a print of the photo Hear Music in the Stanford Mall and tracked down this site.
12/16:	Salon features an article about a company threatening the owner of the fandom.tv domain name with cybersquatting. It's pretty scary; these sorts of cease-and-desist threats are just a form of intellectual terrorism, to my mind. The fact that companies can get away with making these threats just seems wrong.
12/16:	Astronomy Pic of the Day features a composite view of light sources on Earth as seen from space. (Warning: The photo is over 500 Kb.)
12/16:	The Baseball Prospectus analyzes how division realignment in 1995 has affected the competitive balance of the game. Their conclusion is that it makes it easier for rich teams to get into the playoffs because there's more margin for error. If realignment hadn't occurred, the Yankees wouldn't have won all those World Series.
12/19:	Molly Ivins writes about how George W. Bush might not be as bad as you think.
12/21:	Rock artist Kirsty MacColl was killed earlier this week in a boating accident. She was 41. Her album Titanic Days is quite cool, and its predecessor, Electric Landlady, has one of the funniest titles of any rock album.