Suck: Toy Story. "The shelves of mall toy stores are cornucopias of revolutionary possibility, secret niches of independent pure play versus mediated hegemony." Right on!


Washington Post: Ramsey Calls City Safe for Revelers. This is the story from yesterday; the Post finally fixed the link. The story claims that the city's critical computer systems are Y2K ready. My responses: 1) Impossible; 2) I wonder how badly we will all be inconvenienced with the "non-critical" systems?


ZDNN: Portal Wars Are Over — Guess Who Won. Ah, the power of default browser start pages… Big deal.


Fortune: Keeping Yahoo Simple—and Fast. There is a lesson for all web developers here.