17/1/02 - Too right:

16/1/02 - Some great news:

"Portishead will soon regroup in Sydney, Australia to record their long-awaited follow-up to 1997's Portishead."

"The companies all agree on who makes the easiest target. "Men can always be seduced if the woman operative is reasonably good-looking," says Hiwatashi. "That's an absolute. Men are basically simpletons.""

13/1/02 - Pulp in concert in Sheffield:

"I LIVE on the edge," remarked Jarvis Cocker, explaining to the audience why he had foregone a pair of shoes to go with his Man At Oxfam outfit. "Brincliffe Edge!"

13/1/02 - Opt out of pop-up and pop-under ads.  This really seems to work, I've hardly seen an ad since.

13/1/02 - Pop-up slideshow of 'Love is...' posters on Tube etiquette.

And there's a poll as well:

"What do you find most irritating about other people on the Tube?
...
People with accordions
People who look like they may have an accordion at home..."

6/1/02 - John Peel's Festive Fifty, and those available for download.

6/1/02 - John Darnielle's Top Ten Songs of 2001.

6/1/02 - The American Dialect Society's Words of the Year have been decided: (via World Wide Words)

"Word of the Year: "9-11" or "nine-eleven"
Most Outrageous: "assoline", methane used as a fuel.
Most Euphemistic: "daisy cutter", a bomb used by US Air Forces in Afghanistan (not new, but definitely a distinguishing word of 2001).
Most Useful: there was a tie between "facial profiling", videotaping a crowd to identify criminals and terrorists, and "second-hand speech", overheard cell-phone conversation.
Most Creative: "shuicide bomber", a terrorist with a bomb in his shoe.
Most Unnecessary: "impeachment nostalgia", longing for the superficial news of the Clinton era
Most Likely to Succeed: "9-11" or "nine-eleven"
Least Likely to Succeed: "Osamaniac", a woman sexually attracted to Osama bin Laden
Most Inspirational: "Let's roll!", the words of the late Todd Beamer, who mobilised passengers on Flight 93 on 11 September to overcome the terrorists who had hijacked the plane."

""Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network."

-Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996"

This is not so far-fetched when you read stuff like this:

"At last, someone has stepped in to replace Jar Jar Binks as the target of derision from Star Wars fans the world over.

Brace yourselves: The boys of 'N Sync will have a cameo in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones. A Lucasfilm spokeswoman confirmed what Star Wars fan sites had been buzzing about for days, saying the fivesome will appear briefly in a "big scene.""