- Popular Science's 1999 Best of What's New is a pretty spiffy shopping list for the geek in your life.
- Etymologic is the brain-twisting etymology game!
- Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
- James Lileks wrote for The Minnesota Daily when I was going to school at the U of M. He's got a swell site, that includes pictures of the buildings in downtown Minneapolis, plus archives of his writing. Lots of stuff to look at here.
- SMUG is a good online magazine. It's a good way to spend a Saturday.
- How To Write Unmaintainable Code is fun. I know a bunch of guys who seem to have already read it.
- Sherlock 2 Winzap claims to put Sherlock II back into a normal window.
- The Register: Y2K bug smokes Fire station like a kipper -- is the testing worse than the actual bug? It might be.
- IRA to lay down guns? but critics were not willing to accept the olive leaf and were quick to reject the offer.