http://www.seethru.co.uk/zine/features/xmas/index.htm christmas games: "the games starts when you and your partner are relegated to separate single beds in the parental home" 00:23

http://100things.com/100days/011206.html remembering a dead childhood friend 11:52

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2060198 "All the News that's Fit to Print": but the NYT fails to publish photos of Pompeii's famous erotic frescoes 11:26

http://janes.com/defence/news/misc/norad011221_1_n.shtml strange Janes article on NORAD's Santa-tracking efforts. I think this was supposed to be funnier than it was. 03:29

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/20/business/media/20ADCO.html Adcritic.com goes down... 10:29

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2060140 "Not everything a terrorist does is terrorism": it's not just those al-Qaida rogues--the US military's "Code of Conduct" instructs its captured soldiers to do whatever they must to escape, too 12:28

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2060041 "The war on terror enters the most dangerous phase--again" 11:03

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/54/B52.html the B52 has been flying for 40 years already, and it might fly for 40 more 17:12

http://www.rense.com/general7/whyy.htm "Why McDonald's Fries Taste So Good": most of the article is about the food flavouring industry 02:57

http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html memorable Usenet articles 13:21

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2059692 What is the US going to do with John Walker? Should he be treated leniently because he's been "misled" (Bush)? Surely he has less of an excuse than a Muslim man living in Pakistan. 11:59

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2059540 "A guide to buying term papers online" 10:41

http://www.defenselink.mil/acq/acic/treaties/oskies/osky_
es.htm the US has signed a treaty that allows spy planes from other countries to overfly its territory--? 10:16

http://gladwell.com/2001/2001_11_26_a_diaper.htm a triumph of capitalism? "The paper diaper changed parenting. But a diaper that could hold four insults without leakage, keep a baby's skin dry, clear an insult in twenty seconds flat, and would nearly always be in stock, even if you arrived at the supermarket at eight o'clock in the evening--and that would keep getting better at all those things, year in and year out--was another thing altogether." 09:51

http://www.newscientist.com/lastword/lwtop20.jsp answers to "everyday" science questions 23:46

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/08/arts/design/08NOTE.html NYT fusses over cute New Yorker cover 23:24

http://www.iht.com/articles/41263.html Italy's museums are being privatised 14:36

http://newyorker.com/THE_TALK_OF_THE_TOWN/CONTENT/?011210ta_
talk_surowiecki The Marshall Plan Myth: rebuilding Afghanistan will not be like rebuilding Germany 12:41

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2059186 curiously technical George Harrison obit 11:17

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2059290 Should John Walker be charged with treason? Is there such a thing as treason nowadays--or does it amount to a simple difference of opinion? (Anne Applebaum) 11:12

http://www.wbur.org/special/specialcoverage/feature_aljaz.asp Al Jazeera news, translated into English 14:17

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/92/story_9263.html "I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" as a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite." (Alan Dershowitz) 11:02

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/books/01BOOK.html review of "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" 17:27

http://grishkina.com/crap/archives/000041.html "Quatrains composed for my l.o.v.e." 15:23