01/05:	I unearthed a little info on the Web about what happened to David Trampier, creator of the terrific Wormy strip in Dragon magazine in the 70s and 80s. It seems that no one knows for sure. Trampier might have left Dragon in a huff in a dispute over pay rates.
01/13:	XBattle is a fun abstract real-time wargame for UNIX systems with X Windows. I played some early versions way back in grad school (circa 1992), and it's apparently evolved quite a bit since then. I've been thinking that when I learn Cocoa programming on Mac OS X I might try porting it to the Mac.
01/18:	If you've ever played the computer game Starcraft, then you might get a kick out of this rendition of "The 12 Days of Christmas" with a Starcraft theme. I laughed my ass off. (Warning: The file is over 3 Mb in size.)
01/20:	The San Jose Mercury News has a Java-based crossword puzzle on-line.
01/27:	The Annals of Improbable Research features a set of postal experiments to find out how the USPS handles shipping a variety of bizarre items.
01/27:	For you baseball geeks, Vörös McCracken is a student who's done some interesting baseball research, including an analysis of how pitchers impact what happens to a ball put in play at the Baseball Prospectus Web site, which has been getting a lot of air time in Rob Neyer's ESPN column recently.
01/28:	I found a page about the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in Moss Beach, CA, home of the tide pools I like so much. It includes a link to a Web-based tide predictor. I wonder how accurate it truly is?
01/31:	Keith Woolner follows up on Vörös McCracken's pitching analysis in a Baseball Prospectus article. Keith, by the way, is a fellow Bay Area Red Sox fan and administrates the fantasy baseball league I'm in.
02/01:	Phony $200 bill with picture of George W. Bush passed in Kentucky. Hot on the heels of the Richard M. Nixon $3 bill, presumably. People have also been known to counterfeit $6 bills - I infer that there's some ideal cost/return price point there or something.
02/03:	Salon's review of Shadow of the Vampire.
02/04:	I recently started reading the journal Om Mani Padme Hum, which is absolutely hilarious. I just about died laughing at this entry.
02/10:	Theseus and the Minotaur are a series of clever Java maze puzzles. There's an especially tough variant of this maze here. (Thanks to J.D. Roth.)
02/10:	Jazz trombonist J. J. Johnson died this week at the age of 77. NPR's Fresh Air ran an obituary and an old interview with him. Johnson's album J.J. Inc. is one of my favorite jazz albums.
02/10:	Science, My Ass!
02/10:	How long until we have a legitimate U.S. President?
02/10:	I enjoy rating books and CDs on Amazon.com, and seeing what it recommends to me to read. Movie Critic provides a similar service for films.
02/10:	Potlatch 10 is in San Francisco in two weeks. I'm going, are you?
02/15:	Sign a petition to save Clarus the Dogcow in Mac OS X. Truthfully, though, I'm indifferent. I wouldn't mind a little more whimsy in Apple products, but I'm not attached to this particular whimsy.
02/15:	Heard any good pickup lines lately?
02/19:	While playing with iTunes at work this week, I discovered an excellent progressive rock streaming broadcast called Aural Moon which plays a fascinating variety of stuff. I'm already very interested in buying something by Jadis, whom I'd never heard of before.
02/19:	Get 'em while they're hot: Amazon.com is having a free shipping promotion.
02/23:	The 100 Greatest Comic Artists of All Time, a little something to stir some debate in the comic-reading community, I guess!
03/15:	All your base are belong to us is one of many badly-translated lines from a Japanese arcade game of the 1980s which has become a bizarre cult phenomenon. I've been giggling over it for two days now, and at work we shout out things like "It's you!!" and "What you say??" at appropriately bizarre times. (VIDEO 2 is the link you want to see the Flash movie.)
03/15:	Duality is an incredible Star Wars-based short film which is almost entirely computer-generated (save for the actors and a few props). Better yet, it was entirely produced on Macintoshes. Why do people bother to buy PCs again?
03/18:	The Seattle earthquake's effect on a pendulum's swing.
03/18:	Comic book writer Tony Isabella has a new on-line column.
03/24:	A new Babylon 5 TV-movie and possible spinoff series is in the works.
03/24:	Make your HACKING MASS predictions for the worst baseball players of the 2001 season.
03/27:	A few weeks ago I heard a really interesting song on the radio; the arrangement was among the best I've heard in pop music in a long time. You could have knocked me over with a stick when I learned that it was Madonna's "Don't Tell Me". (The video is less cool than the song.)
03/27:	Take a virtual tour of the Sydney Opera House.
03/27:	For whatever reason, Warner Bros is re-releasing Superman: The Movie later this year. It is a fine film, and I'll probably go see it again.
03/30:	Does what kind of computer you own reflect on your personality? Some people think so.
03/30:	Making the Macintosh: Technology and Culture in Silicon Valley is a set of historical documents about the creation of the original Macintosh computer.
03/31:	A collection of physics jokes. Some of them are hilarious. Some of them are just esoteric.
04/07:	Linux creator Linus Torvald slams Mac OS X. It's a pretty amusing article; Torvalds' statements seem entirely marketing-driven. I personally think there's a good chance that Mac OS X will gobble up the Linux user base in the next few years.
04/12:	Hideous interior designs from the 70s! Flee! Flee!
04/12:	Visit the tree cat in Gulfport, Mississippi.
04/13:	An intriguing interview on the impact (or lack thereof) that a sports team has on a city's economy. Apparently political leaders are quite hostile to the conclusions that economists have drawn about this subject.
04/19:	Train of Thought is a Weblog by Michael Lee, a former fellow graduate student of mine from UW-Madison. We share interests in science fiction and progressive rock music.
04/19:	Fun Again is an on-line games retailer. Some games are discounted. I haven't dived into them very deeply, but I'll definitely keep them in mind next time I want to buy some games.
04/29:	Just what the Web needed: Perpetual bubblewrap.
05/04:	An interesting article on research on the acoustics of baseball.
05/13:	Science fiction/humor author Douglas Adams died Friday morning of a heart attack. Adams was only 49, and was an AppleMaster. One of his last public contributions was a Web post praising Mac OS X. Adams hadn't written much in several years, but will always be remembered for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and several Doctor Who scripts.
05/17:	Danger Research, where my friend CJ works, recently got written up in the New York Times.
05/17:	Marillion, a rock group I've been listening to a lot lately, has their own Web site.
05/28:	How many members of your sun sign does it take to change a light bulb?
05/31:	A. K. Dewdney is a mathematician at the University of Western Ontario. I mainly know about him due to his two-dimensional fictional universe as portrayed in his novel The Planiverse.
05/31:	Curse of the Bambino is a Boston Red Sox weblog by Edward Cossette.
06/06:	CJ Silverio decided to start her own Weblog, with interactive capabilities.
06/17:	Someone scanned and uploaded all of David Trampier's Wormy strips from Dragon magazine. Get your copyright violations there, or just read and enjoy a wonderful satire of gaming and gamers. And, in the new edition of Phil Foglio's What's New collection, volume 2, Kaja Foglio says that Trampier has been located as alive and well and working outside the gaming industry. Whether he'll ever return to Wormy... who knows.
06/17:	Frazz is a cute comic strip about an elementary school janitor who worships Lyle Lovett which I discovered while on vacation in Madison.
06/17:	California's Independent System Operator has added a "generation" line to their power outlook graph.
06/22:	Good summary on the mechanics of a breaking pitch in baseball.
06/22:	Yahoo Sports has an excellent archive of baseball statistics, arguably even more complete and detailed than those on ESPN.
06/24:	A virtual panoramic view from Battery Spencer. (Requires QuickTime.)
06/28:	Now here's a neat picture: A composite picture of the entire surface of Mars.
07/01:	D'ni Guild is the new official site for Cyan, the company that made the great computer games MYST and Riven.
07/01:	MYSTerium is a cool site with lots of news and images and details about the MYST series of computer games. I grabbed a bunch of images from here to use in the slideshow on the Mac OS X screen saver.
07/01:	High Boskage is a baseball analysis site. What does the name mean? Beats me!
07/05:	Long-time journal readers might know of Ceej's negative experiences with and outlook toward the Jehovah's Witnesses. Now Monique writes about someone she knows who died in childbirth because she refused a blood transfusion on the grounds of her JW beliefs. Scary.
07/08:	One study of hitting home runs in baseball demonstrates that they're hit in a random pattern. This seems like a rather pointless conclusion to me, since it doesn't account for the varying abilities of players to hit home runs, or the relative predictability (within certain bounds) of how many home runs a player will hit from year to year. An interesting notion, though.
07/08:	Blakeway Worldwide Panoramas produces some lovely prints of cityscapes and skylines. I saw many of these in a post shop in Madison in May, and I may have to order a couple sometime.
07/20:	Apple has a new jobs site. If you're interested in a job at Apple, that's probably the best place to start.
07/20:	The Joy of Tech is an Apple-and-computer-industry-themed comic strip with quite topical installments. This week's strips have all been themed around MacWorld New York, for instance.
07/30:	Eleanor Mason decided to fold her journal last week. I suspect that this closing is what prompted Monique's essay on ending an on-line journal.
08/09:	It's Dress 'M Up Dubya!
08/09:	Check out The Corporate America Flag Jam. We all know who really rules this country, right?
08/09:	Vote for the Boston Red Sox' all-centennial team!
08/14:	Santa Clara County Parks' page about the Los Gatos Creek Trail.
08/14:	Ron Horii's bicyclist's guide to the Los Gatos Creek Trail.
08/17:	See what drives George W. Bush, leader of the free world.
08/17:	Study finds that hands-free car phones aren't safer than the normal kind. Personally, I'm in favor of outlawing the use of telephones while driving.
08/25:	Munchkin is a new Steve Jackson Game which seems to be in the tradition of Chez Geek, including being illustrated by John Kovalic.
08/25:	What does your credit score mean?
08/25:	A good summary of why it would be the height of sheer idiocy of Barry Bonds doesn't win the NL MVP award this year. He's having one of the five best seasons in baseball history. Barring a huge unforeseen reversal, any sportswriter who doesn't put Bonds at the top of his or her ballot is either clueless, or just plain dumb.
08/27:	The official Enterprise page, for the new Star Trek series starting this fall.
08/28:	Chops is a big-band Jazz group which my cow-orker Syd belongs to.
08/28:	Get an Apple Web badge to proclaim your Macintosh use to the world!
09/04:	Rob Rummel-Hudson has renamed his journal Darn Tootin'.
09/04:	A really neat page detailing the current contracts of Major League baseball players.
09/04:	An interesting BYTE article on how the Department of Justice failed to understand the magnitude of Microsoft's abuse of its monopoly power, and a Register article with further perspective on the same subject.
09/07:	Oliver's Almonds produces yummy cinnamon-roasted almonds. I had some last week.
09/07:	A fascinating interview with comic book retailer Brian Hibbs, owner of Comix Experience in San Francisco, on how Marvel Comics' recent publishing policies have affected the industry and retailers.
09/07:	Baseball Primer is another site of baseball essaying. It doesn't seem as heavy-duty as the Baseball Prospectus site, nor does it seem to be frequently updated, but it's worth a look.
09/14:	The World Trade Center smoke plume as seen from the International Space Station, and some aerial photos of the WTC and Pentagon before and after the attacks. The WTC event seems to have had the impact of a small natural storm, in terms of its visible "signature".
09/14:	After Major League Baseball cancelled all games through the weekend, Mark McGwire popped off that it shouldn't have taken Bud Selig so long to make this decision, while columnist Rob Neyer thinks they shouldn't have cancelled the weekend games at all. While I don't necessarily agree with Neyer's position, McGwire's sounds like someone who just wants to make noise about something. What difference does it make that Selig made the decision Thursday rather than Tuesday?
09/14:	A story going around that Nostradamus predicted the attacks turns out to be an urban legend. And here's another debunking of the issue.
09/14:	Pat Robertson claims that the secularization of America left the country open to the attacks. I think that this shows that Robertson is a hateful little man who blindly lashes out at things he doesn't like or understand. Anyone who actually agrees with Robertson's claptrap should have their head examined.
09/16:	Usama's LiveJournal is the on-line journal of an Arab-American who lived through the Iran-Iraq wars and is now a filmmaker. He has some interesting things to say about last week's attacks, starting with his September 11 entries, though to avoid confusion I should note that he emphatically does not condone the attacks.
09/16:	Tragically, Sikhs are being targeted for violence in the wake of the attacks, since many of them wear turbans like some Muslim (and in this case at least, the victim wasn't even an Arab!). Perpetrators of this sort of violence - against Sikhs, Muslims, or anyone else due to these attacks - should be sentenced to life in prison. Few people deserve it more.
09/16:	Keith Law carries the Baseball Prospectus' standard of categorically rejecting the notion that the financial disparity among baseball teams poses any problem at all. I'd have respect for his position if he were pushing the reasonable and simpler viewpoint that a financial disadvantage can be overcome through canny management, but the Prospectus staff's steadfast refusal to address the fact that the Yankees can compete every single year while many other teams can't is fundamentally unfair frustrates me. Law's condescending attitude ("...for those who take a more reasoned approach...") in this article is also disturbing.
09/18:	Several sterling explanations of why Barry Bonds is having an historic season, and why it will be criminal if he's not awarded the MVP.
09/19:	An Afghan-American writes about the tragedy of Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban. Powerful stuff, and a pretty good argument against just bombing the country to blazes.
09/19:	Activist Michael Moore sounds off on last week's attacks. I don't always appreciate Moore's writing, but I usually agree with his positions.
09/21:	In Defense of Freedom is a document signed by a large group of people in the wake of last week's attacks. Marcury News columnist Dan Gillmor reports that the Bush administration is trying to damage civil liberties through anti-terrorism legislation.
09/26:	PBS' Frontline has a page of background about Osama bin Laden.
09/26:	A demo page of neat background image tricks which can be performed with the modern Cascading Style Sheet standard for the Web. Unfortunately, several browsers - including IE for Windows, but not IE for Macintosh - don't conform to this standard and won't render the page properly.
09/26:	All Look Same features a test to determine your aptitude for distinguishing Chinese people from Japanese people from Korean people. I did astoundingly poorly on this test.
09/26:	The West Wing has postponed its season premiere to October 10, and will run a new special episode on October 3 tying in somehow to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
09/28:	TruthOrFiction.com isn't quite an urban legends site; rather, it strives to confirm or deny in a timely manner stories going around right now.
10/11:	Buy your Taco Bell Chicken Quesadilla Handheld at Amazon.com!
10/11:	Play Find the Terrorist by cartoonist Mark Fiore.
10/21:	If you have a fast link to the net and aren't offended by Osama bin Laden-related humor, then Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide is quite clever and funny.
10/21:	Although the deadline for voting is tomorrow, baseball fans should consider voting in The Internet Baseball Awards.
12/06:	News flash: Justice Department to break up Apple for turning Microsoft into Monopoly.
12/06:	XPlay is planned Windows interface software for Apple's iPod.
12/06:	The Skeptic's Dictionary is a neat-looking resource for people who prefer to be more grounded in reality. (via Lucy)
12/07:	The John Byrne Fan Site has numerous features about the comic book writer/artist, including a message board on which Byrne participates.
12/07:	For those who read her journal, Rebekah Robertson is back from her Peace Corps stint in Mozambique. She says she'll detail the reasons for her unexpected return to the States in an entry soon...
12/15:	Point of View Online is the Web site of comic book writer, cartoon scripter and Comics Buyer's Guide columnist Mark Evanier. He's a wealth of information about both industries and their histories, and his periodic scribblings are worth reading if you're a fan of either.
12/30:	Vote for the location of Journalcon 2002. Choices are San Antonio, TX and San Francisco, CA. You must have an on-line journal or Weblog to vote. (I may go if SF is chosen and the chosen weekend fits my schedule. I'm not sure I'd go to a con two weeks after Worldcon, though.)