A Natural History of the @ Sign: "Although the change from at meaning 'for a given amount per' to at meaning "in a specified (electronic) location" comes fairly naturally to English speakers, it does not for native speakers of other languages, for whom neither 'at' nor @ meant anything until e-mail came around."
Study sees IT worker shortage in 2002: "Demand for technology workers could rebound this year after their ranks were thinned by 5 percent last year, according to research released Monday."
The Matrix Reloads: "The Wachowski brothers are currently in residence at the Fox studios in Sydney, Australia, simultaneously shooting Matrix Reloaded (part two) and Matrix Revolutions (part three). The movies won't come out until 2003 (Reloaded in May, Revolutions in either August or November), but the hype has already begun. This month a trailer for Reloaded hits theaters, and not since the Star Wars movies has a film inspired so much breathless anticipation on the Internet."
Billionaire Predicts Nuclear Attack: "'We're going to have something in the way of a major nuclear event in this country,' said Warren Buffett, the firm's chief operating officer. 'It will happen. Whether it will happen in 10 years or 10 minutes, or 50 years ... it's virtually a certainty.'"
Bloglet: "Add email subscriptions to your blog. Just put a subscription box on your site to gather readers, and every night they'll receive an e-mail with your post (or a summary of your posts). Bloglet currently supports Blogger, Radio, Movable Type, Nucleus and Big Blog Tool."
At Large in the Blogosphere: "Jorge Luis Borges dreamed of a library the size of a universe, whose wealth of books would induce first delirium, then despair, then breakdown of the social order. Since we first became aware of the Web, we have ricocheted between similar feelings over a universe far more disruptive: one of unbounded, uncensorable streams of text. The current craze is for something called a blog. The name is the diminutive of ''Weblog,'' an online news commentary written, usually, by an ordinary citizen, thick with links to articles and other blogs and studded with non sequiturs and ripostes in sometimes hard-to-parse squabbles."
Bombs Explode in Rural Mailboxes: "More than a half-dozen pipe bombs were placed in rural mailboxes in Illinois and Iowa on Friday, and at least two people were injured in explosions, the post office said."
National ID Cards Coming: "Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge for the first time disclosed Thursday the Bush administration is studying ways to set national standards for driver's licenses that would assist in preventing fraudulent identification and expose aliens who overstayed their visas."
Weblogs and Blogging: "In just one month, January 2002, some 41,000 people created new weblogs using Blogger." Wow!