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The Failure Of The Sixth Estate…

http://www.shift.com/print/web/441/1.html THE FAILED PROMISE OF NEW JOURNALISM Greg Hughes takes a harsh, unflinching look at why political journalism on the web is falling short of its potential. | Dec.13.2002 | The world of modern journalism has become a much busier...

Inside the Meet Market…

http://www.shift.com/content/web/444/1.html MEET MARKET Meetup.com allows people to easily arrange offline get-togethers for like-minded netizens. But does it really work? Al Mousseau crashes two Meetups to find out. | Dec.23.2002 | I walk into Future Bakery on Bloor...

Jeff Raskin’s THE Guy

Interesting that Raskin is essentially using the open source community to promote his book. Obviously not his sole intent, but an interesting lateral benefit.. -Ian. —– http://humane.sourceforge.net/the/ Jeff Raskin: About The Humane Environment There is a...

More Conspiracy Theories…

http://www.portchicago.org/ The Last Wave from Port Chicago.. by Peter Vogel pvogel [at] together [dot] net The result of a 20+ year investigation into the July 17 1944 explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine. This web-based book chronicles the total history of...

First Human Clone?

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story64794 First human clone is ‘born’, or has the world been monstrously duped? By Steve Connor, Science Editor 28 December 2002 A company affiliated to a cult whose followers believe that...

What You Play With Defines Who You Become

from the December 24, 2002 edition – http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1224/p17s01-lifp.html Toy Stories *If you want to reduce serious adults to silly smiles, ask about their favorite childhood toy – the one they held onto for years, or perhaps still have....

2002: The Year In Technology

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993215 * 2002: The year in technology* 09:00 25 December 02 Will Knight The entertainment industry upped its attack on the internet file-sharing in 2002 by introducing new and controversial “copy protection”...

Kevin Mitnick Finally Renews His HAM License

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncidR8&e=1&cidR8&u=/ap/ 20021226/ap_on_hi_te/fcc_hacker Ex-Computer Hacker Granted Radio License Thu Dec 26, 5:21 PM ET Add Technology – AP to My Yahoo! By DAVID HO, Associated Press Writer...

2002: Year of Hockey Night in Canada…

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news/20021225/yearendnhl.html *Hockey 2002: Go north, young man – and woman* December 25, 2002 By Daren Smith SportsTicker Hockey Editor JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (Ticker) – It’s been almost a decade since a Canadian team...