December 2001
CNN.com Analysis: 20 factors that
CNN.com Analysis: 20 factors that will change PCs in 2002
Reflective LCD screens, 400GB hard drives, ubiquitous wireless networks… some forecasts for the next few years in personal technology.
India and Pakistan: Okay, guys,
India and Pakistan: Okay, guys, this isn’t funny any more
BBC: “The Taj Mahal, one of India’s most famous landmarks, is to be covered with dark cloth as protection against possible bombing raids in the event of war with neighbouring Pakistan, officials say. Local tailors in Agra were reported to be stitching more than 400 metres of khaki, black and green cloth, to be strung...
Mark Steyn on the links
Mark Steyn on the links between anti-semitism and anti-Americanism
“Resentment of US cultural imperialism is merely a supersized version of the charges levelled at ’tween-wars European Jewry: the anti-globalisation crowd, droning on about interlopers interested only in profits and swamping local cultures, are singing a very old song. Indeed, the savvier Aryans can claim to have seen it...
Review of the year: on
Review of the year: on nickdenton.org
The Muslim claim to Jerusalem
Is it still unpatriotic to criticize me?
Where is the Arab street?
Living maps
Imaginative Christmas presents
The motley anti-war crew
How to build an atom bomb
History lessons
The flame war
The many faces of Mohammed Atta
I take it back
If you can’t beat them
The rat trap
How to dump the Saudis
The soothsayer
Made in...
Review of the year: on
Review of the year: on Google
2001 in internet search terms: these were the biggest risers:
1. nostradamus
2. cnn
3. world trade center
4. harry potter
5. anthrax
6. windows xp
7. osama bin laden
8. audiogalaxy
9. taliban
10. loft story
11. afghanistan
12. nimda
13. american airlines
14. american flag
15. aaliyah
...
John Varvatos on eLUXURY I've
John Varvatos on eLUXURY
I’ve just found out that Varvatos, my favorite clothesmaker, sells on eLUXURY. Beautiful stuff, but *so* expensive. Maybe there’s a sale - a deep sale - on at the SoHo flagship store. The downturn has its consolations.
Boingo Wireless Wi-Fi internet access
Boingo Wireless
Wi-Fi internet access - high speed, no wires - across multiple networks. Coming early in the new year. You can sign up here to be alerted when this network of networks goes live.
Weblog awards Okay, so Dave
Weblog awards
Okay, so Dave Winer’s awards promote his own agenda, he has made the nominations personally, and most of you don’t know or care about weblogs or Dave Winer, but the initiated can still vote for best personal weblog and weblog utility.
Fellowship of the Ring Sounds
Fellowship of the Ring
Sounds as though the first of the Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of those rare blockbusters that meets expectations. The reviews are generally glowing.
That shitty little country An
That shitty little country
An extraordinary dinner party story about the French ambassador to London. “The ambassador of a major EU country politely told a gathering at my home that the current troubles in the world were all because of ‘that shitty little country Israel’.”
Politicalcompass.org Test your politics with
Politicalcompass.org
Test your politics with this online quiz. Rather than assign a simple position on a spectrum of left to right, Political Compass separates economic and social beliefs. In case you’re wondering, my scores are +2.88 and -3.95, which unsurprisingly makes me a right-wing libertarian, but a rather mild one. I’m outflanked by, among others, Andew Sullivan, who scores +...
The Nation: Bringing the Holy
The Nation: Bringing the Holy War Home
“There are many things to be learned from the shock of September 11; surely one of the more important is that culture is not only a political matter, but a matter of life and death. It follows that a serious, long-range strategy against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism must entail open and emphatic opposition to theocracy and to the subjugation of...