2002: The Year in Links

A blog is nothing without its links. Below, is a chronology of the 473 links I posted or cribbed in 2002. Down from an all-time high of 788 links in 2000, when blogging was young, and 589 links in 2001. Less linking, better sources, and yet there seems to be an awful lot of linkrot occuring. What's the deal? When something goes online it should stay there forever, or why bother posting it in the first place?

Oh yeah, I forgot that the Internet is being overrun by advertising and marketing, and this is obscuring the quality content that's out there, in a sea of pop-up ads and crappy, Flash-turbation sites for movies and bullsh*t products. All the more reason to believe that the next "big" thing will be personalized content, and easy-to-use software that goes out and finds the data that matches your personal information needs. I think the best early thinking on this subject in 2002 was in an online article by writer Anil Dash called, The Microcontent Client. Of course, no one has yet figured out how to make money on content, whether micro- or macro-, so innovation will have to come from people driven by ideas and not just cash for cash's sake. So the profiteers will just sit on their money until they find something and someone they can exploit for short-term gains that only benefit a select few. But that's another story.

I'm glad that this sad sack of a year is over. It was actually a pretty bleak year, all things considered. With another Bush-led war looming, and economic malaise in all corners, that downward trend will probably continue well into 2003, and perhaps much longer. Welcome to the new Dark Ages, but that, too, is yet another story.

Without further ado about nothing, the 2002 links:

Top 5 Top 5 of 2002
3 Consonants And a Disavowal (Institute for the Study of Academic Racism)
Yahoo! Web Beacons (Yahoo!)
What Should I Do With My Life? (F@st Company)

My All Pro Team (CNNSI.com)
Beyonce Knowles Bounces Britney (AdAge.com)
Lousy Service Cripples United, McDonalds (AdAge.com)
Scrooge Is Haunting Wall Street (Business Week Online)

Lakers' biggest games come after Christmas (ESPN.com)
Murder, revenge, rage ... and apathy (LA Times)
LOTR: The Two Towers (REEL.com)
Europe sheds crocodile tears for Africa (allAfrica.com)

How Iraq may react (International Herald Tribune)
Girl talk (New Scientist)
Centrefold models getting more androgynous (New Scientist)
After 5 seasons, 'Survivor' still defying the odds (Star Telegram)

BET founder Johnson awarded Charlotte franchise (ESPN.com)
giftworx (NegroPlease blog)

When technology attacks (Gary Marshall - Freelance hack)
Creative Commons: Licensing Project
Newgrounds Presents: Christmas

'Jimmy Crow' lives in racial/ethnic theme houses (djournal.com)
Spam king lives large off others' e-mail troubles (Detroit FreeP)

Racism alive and well in the Union (kottke.org)

World AIDS Day 2002
Link and Think: 2002
Link and Think About AIDS: 2002
1-Minute-AIDS-Test
The 1972 U.S. HIV/AIDS Antidotes
Abstinence and Safer Sex HIV Risk-Reduction Interventions for African American Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial (AMA)
AEGIS HIV Daily Briefing
African American HIV/AIDS Program (Red Cross)
African Americans' Views of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic at 20 Years: Findings from a National Survey (Kaiser)
AIDS and Africa: A Case of Racism Vs Science?
AIDS at 20 (Kaiser)
AIDS Epidemic Update 2002 (UNAIDS)
AIDS fuels southern Africa famine (SF Gate)
AIDS in Africa
AIDS in Africa is Caused by Starvation and Medications
Black and Hispanic HIV Patients Are Less Likely to Get Experimental Medications (HHS)
BlackAIDS.org
Closing the Health Gap (HHS)
Daily HIV/AIDS Report (Kaiser)
Discreet HIV Test
Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention (CDC)
The Fear of Losing HIV
The History of the Development of AIDS
The HIV/AIDS Search Engine
Race/Ethnicity and HIV/AIDS (TheBody.com)
Racism 'helping spread of AIDS' (Guardian UK)
Special Report: AIDS (Guardian UK)
Top 10 Ten Things Everyone Should Know About HIV (About.com)
Virusmyth: A Re-Thinking AID$ Website
The Yin & Yang of HIV
Africa devastated by Aids (BBC)
AIDS & HIV Statistics
AIDS in Africa (PBS)
Death Stalks A Continent (Time.com)
The AIDS Memorial Quilt
HIV/AIDS Among African Americans (CDC)
HIV/AIDS Positive Stories
Looking for the Light
The Origin of AIDS? (ABCNEWS)
Stories from Young People with HIV (UCSF)
Targeting AIDS (PBS)

Allies strive for Arab hearts and minds (Guardian Unlimited)
Digital image stored in single molecule (New Scientist)
Why Are Black Students Lagging? (New York Times)

AIDS in Africa (Economist.com)

Reality Check - Eminem Is Not "Fresh" (Humor Is Dead)

BushCartoon.com

Osama issues new call to arms (Guardian Unlimited)
Study finds whites still fear integration - 11/22/02 (The Detroit News)

Michael Moore Caught At Own Game? (Wired News)

Fines for mobile use in NY cinemas (BBC)

Nothing compares to The Play (ESPN.com)
'Scared' Iverson says Philly police are targeting him (ESPN.com)

Economists' No. 1 nightmare: a downward spiral (International Herald Tribune)
Got a sticky problem? Don't worry, you can always dump it on Africa (Guardian Unlimited)
'Iron' will paying off for Schwarzenegger (Marijuana.Com)

Secret Court OKs Broad Wiretap Powers (Reuters)
Black People Love Us!
Encyclopedia Mythica

Sidekick
How High (2001) (Rotten Tomatoes)

Racism Defied (Black Britain)
Surplus to requirements? (Guardian Unlimited)
Screenwriters: Cut to the Web (Wired News)
Larry David, a Rough-Edged Cultural Touchstone (New York Times)

City Creator

Mathematica Resource Library
Singlefile

Jump The Shark

Search for America's Next Supermodel (AZ Reporter)
MNF's Greatest Games: Miami-New York Jets 2000 (ABCSPORTS.com)
Bill Moyers on Election 2002 (PBS.org (NOW))
How Much is Too Much? (AlcoholScreening.org)
Study: Even one drink can impair thinking (CNN.com)
RhymeZone
Modart Keep A Breast 2002

Racism Solutions Rumour (Black Britain)

Priming the Pump of War (CTHEORY.NET)

Knicks fall short in front of non-sellout MSG crowd (ESPN.com)
Card fraudsters prey on high class diners (Guardian Unlimited)

Black leaders hit Belafonte for slur (The Washington Times)
The Scribbler

Irish Wise (ESPNMAG.com)

The Bush Body Count

The (Possible) Assassination of Paul Wellstone (Yahoo! News)
Google Glossary
Macromedia's Video Blogs (Vern on MX)
Run-DMC rapper slain in New York (MSNBC)

Free and Clear (ESPNMAG.com)
Army Working on Three-Year Sandwich (Yahoo! News)

Moscow siege gas 'may have been opiate' (Guardian Unlimited)
Jammin Reggae Archives (NiceUp.com)

Polar Ball® (Toy Directory)
Nation Of Islam Leader Addresses Media On D.C. Sniper Case (The Black World Today)
When the Spam Hits the Blogs (Wired News)

Preventive Attacks Fail Test of History (LA Times)
Why They Hate Us

24 (Fox TV)

Ex-Sony Head Guber on Ryder's Jury (ABCNEWS.com)
U.S.-Saudi oil imports fund American mosques (WorldNetDaily)
The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements
P-Mail (Tickle Tykes)
0100101110101101.ORG (Walker Art Center)

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse (EFF.org, et. al)

Annoyance Filter (MetaTalk)
"You must feel like a God" (Doonesbury Daily Dose)

More crappy children's art work

'Don't vote black, vote the agenda,' Reverend Al tells teenagers (Independent UK)
Palaver Tree Online

Are African Americans Resigning Themselves To Second Class Citizenship? (The Black World Today)
Film: Mac Fervor, Malcolm X Style (Wired News:)
The Zen TV Experiment (Adbusters)
Anatomy of a Game: Survivor!
Get Out Of Debt
Texting the Television (Economist.com)
Owens not punished -- this time (ESPN.com)

MicroCar Smackdown (ExtremeTech)

Cloning team looks to human embryos (Guardian Unlimited)
The Iraqi wild card: Impact on oil market (International Herald Tribune)

Slovakia face fan ban over racism (BBC)

US plans military rule and occupation of Iraq (Guardian Unlimited)
2003 Nissan 350Z
.hack

(Yet Another) Interview with Jeff Bezos (Darwin)
Stanford Ranks Second Nationally In SI's Top Sports Colleges (GoStanford.com)

[Andy] Rooney blasts purpose of female sideline reporters (ESPN.com)
What Amazon Knows, Amazon Keeps (Wired News)
Net matchmaking with a real-time twist (CNET.com)

Farrakhan kicks off anti-war campaign in Detroit (Detroit FreeP)
Why France disdains America (International Herald Tribune)
Aspiring stars have their reality rechecked at Belly (SignOnSanDiego.com)

Follow the Money and the Documents (AlterNet.org)
Niche retailers supply gadget geeks with latest from Japan (SiliconValley.com)
Dynamism
Japan-Direct
Mercantile of Osaka
TKNY
User's Side
OQO
Jesse Jackson's Take on CEO Crime (Business Week Onlie)

Common Errors in English

Yankees go down swinging (MLB.COM)
Scientists release 'world's best joke' (NEWS.com.au)

Weblogs and Publishing (Shirky)
Bookworm

No longer number one (brilliant corners blog)

What I could be doing right now, according to email received this morning... (kottke.org)

Jackson, Sharpton Criticize 'Barbershop' (Salon.com)

Police: Moss used car to bump traffic control agent (ESPN)

Reporters Find New Outlet, and Concerns, in Web Logs (New York Times)

Valenti presents Hollywood's side of the technology story (SiliconValley.com)
In Japanese schools, disorder spreads (International Herald Tribune)

James Brown sued by daughters in songwriting row (NME.COM)

Fear of Whitey (Willamette Week Online)

Jesse and King Herod (WorldNetDaily)

NFL thwarts Manning in attempt to honor Unitas (ESPN.com)

Special report: Iraq (Guardian Unlimited)
Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming President (Sunday Herald)
Girls are panting for more (Sun Online)
Barbershop (Rotten Tomatoes)

Santa Cruz City Officials to Hand Out Marijuana (miami.com)

Terror Threat Raised to Orange (ABCNEWS.com)
Uncertainties Abound in Pinpointing the Real Enemy (Common Dreams)

weblog ethics (the weblog handbook by rebecca blood)
Overview of Changes to Legal Rights (Newsday.com)

List of demands from a gender liberation conference
Exhibit 13

Internet Traffic Report
In Public Opinion, U.S., Europe More United Than Apart (washingtonpost.com)
Riding the MTA's Love Train (Flak Magazine)

Accessible Web Sites (dive into mark)

Change Your Jaguar Boot Screen (www.ryandesign.com)

E-mail marketers busy cultivating a penile colony (SFGate)
FREE THE MOUSE
Corruption 'Rampant' in Two-Thirds of Countries (Yahoo! News)
Study Finds Big Increase in Black Men as Inmates Since 1980 (New York Times)

TARGET: Retailing White Supremacy (Tolerance.org)

The Death Clock
Long Bets

The Chickenhawk Database (New Hampshire Gazette)
We Will Not Live at the Mercy of Terrorists (The Weekly Standard)

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Angry White Men (Village Voice)
Disposable planet (BBC)

McDonald's sorry for burger blunder (Aftenposten (Norway))
Sexy Beasts (Metro Times Detroit)
SlamBall (TNN)
Eminem: White America (RollingStone.com)
the blogger code
Little hope for Talk City users (CNET.com)
Weblogs of the stars (SF Gate)
Discogs

Raid on Kmart lot leaves shock, anger (HoustonChronicle.com)
Women remember disturbing, emotional images more than men, study shows (Stanford News Service)
Curtis: Cosmetic surgery pointless (BBC)
U.N. report says racism on the rise worldwide (NJ.com)
How To Make Great Collard Greens
Natural Reality SuperWeed kit 1.0
More black girls are crime victims (MSBET)
Diamonds are forever, and you could be too (CNN.com)
Black Farmers to Rally at USDA (ABCNEWS.com)
Close family smells worse than a stranger (New Scientist)

Marsalis Launches New Indie Label (Marsalis Music)

As Argentina faces record unemployment, game show contestants compete for jobs (Yahoo! News)

Abu Nidal 'found dead' in Baghdad (Guardian Unlimited)

Blacks Rally D.C. for Reparations (Yahoo! News)
Japanese Internment History U.S. hosts talks on Nazi slave reparations The Naked Face (gladwell dot com)
Cross-Race Facial Recognition (APA..org)

Memo to the Right Wing: It's Class Warfare Out There (Common Dreams)
mazava.net
what is fyuze?

Brand names really do stick in brain (MSNBC)
Homeland Dept. Could Take Years (Yahoo! News)
Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision (LA Times)

Blogging for Dollars (O'Reilly Network)
Hunt and Peck (AlterNet)

Three Strikes (Memphis Flyer)
Asian Brown Cloud poses global threat (CNN.com)

TV viewing after 9/11 is linked to distress (Boston Globe Online)
Knicks pass on Mutombo, want Mourning (ESPN.com)

TiVo Might Rue Arrival of DTV (Wired News)
CHICKENHEAD
Neopets!
SHOUTcast Showcase

FEMA
FEMA Website
Citizen Corps

BlogVoices.com will be closing indefinitely (20010123185301)
Can't Understand It? Don't Worry (Joel on Software)

Al Martin Raw
MyReplayTV
Monkey cloned from jellyfish? (20010113074008)
911 Things To Hate About America (Exile)

Translucent Databases

Homebuying: What I Learned (Fool.com: Living Below Your Means)

Top Twenty Blogger Insults (Davezilla)
The Rise of the Black Nerd (The Village Voice)
China pursues arsenal of technology (The Washington Times)
One Woman's Account of Two Hotel Experiences (New York Times)
Tourists offered homeless holidays (CNN.com)

TeeVee

Pornographer's Picks (Salon (Blogs))

Clinton Rips Bush on 90's Fraud (Yahoo! News)
Homebrew TrackBack Tutorial (hit-or-miss.org)
Rescued Pa. Miners Recount Ordeal (Yahoo! News)
Who Needs a Husband? (New York Times)

buck up! (hideous kinky)
:: planet replay ::
NY Man Sues, Claiming Fast Food Ruined His Health (Yahoo! News)
Blogmapper
Simple Arithmetic (No! I Will Not Go Quietly)

[CDC Study on Marriage] (John Scalzi's Whatever Column)
Connect the Dots for a Disturbing Picture (LA Times)
AdWhore (Humor Is Dead)

the5k.org : entries

WordNet
Neo/Christ Parallels in The Matrix
Stick Death
25 Rules for Being a Republican (Independent Media Center)
Space rock 'on collision course' (BBC)
People can show prejudice unintentionally, study finds (The Record.com)

the closet capitalist (lgf)

Bookbrowse.com
goodreports.net
Get A Job (Metafilter)
Whois Report - Domain Name Search Engine

U.S. air raids took large civilian toll (International Herald Tribune)
Fair Use advocates silenced by Big Brother (The Register)
iRock
Making Photographs
Ted Turner sues St. Helena group (The Beaufort Gazette)

KurzweilAI.net
Nazis and Bush family history: Government investigated Bush family's financing of Hitler (Remember John)

Questionable Quotes (Black Tuesday) (Urban Legends Reference Pages)
Bush And The Blacks (Bushwatch.com)
Bush Watch

BlogChalking

One big question for Answer (ESPN.com/Page2)
Racists, bigots and other Morons (Anger Central)

Fowl play (Guardian Unlimited)
The Treadmill ( Playahata.com)

Eye TV (El Gato Software)
Uppity-Negro.com
Lawmakers: Keep your tunes to yourself (CNET.com)

White IVF couple has Black twins (BBC)
EFF Analysis of USA PATRIOT Act (EFF.org)
Hated
Democratic Underground
Bibleman
Blog Elements 3 (Fairvue Central Blog)
Introducing Overpeer
Powell: 'bastards won't drive me out' (Telegraph UK)

PopPolitics.com
Open areas at airports get armed U.S. guards (International Herald Tribune)
George Michael: I�m not anti-U.S. (MSNBC)
Strike looms large over All-Star Game (CNNSI.com)

Wildfire heats racial tension (SFGate)

A Jury of Their Mother's Peers (Sean Gallagher's Rant Central)

WARCHALK
UK Nuclear stores 'on verge of exploding' (Guardian Unlimited)
mixmatcher
Def Poets Society - Can Russell Simmons make poetry cool? (Slate)
Whites take major roles in movies about minorities (Chicago Tribune)
www.terrornapalestina.tk

Patrols and Privilege (Monkeyfist.com)

Big Accounting Firm's Tax Plans Help the Wealthy Conceal Income (NY Times)
Two Years To Save The World (New Scientist)

the gene pool needs purging... (The Caption Machine)
The Caption Machine

Do You Have Blacks Too? (IndyMedia Center)
Tetrahedron

Nigeria - The 419 Coalition Website

Bilderberg

The Covers Project
Le Pen Pulls Upset in French Vote (Yahoo! News)
Evolutionism Propaganda (Objective: Christian Ministries)

Postcards @ MacAndBumble.com (MacAndBumble.com)

Abercrombie & Fitch to pull t-shirts with offensive portrayals of Asian-American (Mercury News)

Analog Rights Management (Ditherati)

Pimps at Sea

Women Talk About Sex More Than Men (Off the Beaten Path News)
New law may add 19th hole to course (Chicago Tribune)

Childhood Characteristics (Alcoholic Anonymous)

Bootstrapping (DaveNet)
Here come the SaRaHs (This is London)

UserLand Offers Headlines from NYTimes.Com

EU and US selling poor down the river (Guardian Unlimited)

13 Days of Bloodshed (The Times UK)
The houses that saved the world (Economist.com)
Damian ... the Kat?

End of Existence

10 Things to Know about U.S. Policy in the Middle East (AlterNet)
An American Student in Ramallah (CounterPunch)

Oscars 2002: Somebody make it stop! (QOTD) (Salon.com)
Oscars 2002: Somebody make it stop! (Salon.com)
SeeingBlack.com
3BlackChicks
Easter Eggs: Memento (Eeggs.com)

Trends - CABLE (MarketSegment.com)
Trends - CONSUMER SPENDING (MarketSegment.com)
Trends - HOME IMPROVEMENT AND RETAIL (MarketSegment.com)
Trends - EATING HABITS (MarketSegment.com)

What is Scientology?
Bush Acts to Drop Core Privacy Rule on Medical Data (New York Times)
Multicultural Snapshot (Market Segment Group)
PARTY COLLEGE!!!

c o c o a b l o g z
Cyberspace and Race (Technology Review (MIT))
LiQUiDGENERATiON

Fears over rice genome access (New Scientist)
Sex and What City? (AlterNet)

MOLUV

The Revelation
Three Abreast!

"Every thang's gonna be all white!" (Denver Post)
Psychological Science on the Net
War Is Now the Cover Story for Making More Terror (Common Dreams)
Fraud (AskMen.com)

Countdown to Blade 2 (CountingDown.com)
C I P H E R W A R

Survival Instinct (ETOnline.com)
SXSW
The Tipping Blog (Corante)
"Shyness Theory" (eatonweb)
Bobby Seale's Homepage

B.F. Skinner Beyond Freedom and Dignity

The Chipsons™

Pentagon : Hunt the Boeing! (L'Asile utopique)

Institute of Karmic Guidance

The World Ebon
potatoeland:desiremachine
nofont
Survivor: Marquesas (CBS.com)
The Invisible Whiteness of the Olympic Beer Riot (AlterNet)
collecting unemployment (dooce.com)

Trusting the News (Silicon Valley)

The Wait Is Over
SongMeanings

Teenage Research Unlimited

How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet (DNA)
How to Write a Better Weblog (A List Apart)
Moodstats T { A Kaliber10000 T Production }
Rootz Reggae

War Riddles: Ten Questions the Media Can't Answer (The Village Voice)
U.S. Troops in the Philippines (The Village Voice)

How to Tell Japs From the Chinese (San Francisco State University/Japanese American Internment Curriculum)
A Whitewashing of History ((washingtonpost.com))
The Enron Voice Mail System, 2002 (WitCity)
Y 2 Khai
Booklist 2002
Video games raise concerns over racism (CNET.com)

Should Black Folks Care About Enron? (Pop and Politics)

National Black Programming Consortium
Black Facts Online
Mathematicians of the African Diaspora
Nina Hartley
Blog Control
The Weblog Review

FEMA In New York The Night Before?
Gates, Bono, unveil 'DATA Agenda' for Africa (CNN.com)
Samuel L. Jackson Soundboard
DREAMS Foundation
The Quantitative Study of Dreams
The Association for the Study of Dreams
The Semantic Web (Scientific American)
Combat Missions
The allure of older men? They're past their peak (The Age)
american porn (PBS.org (Frontline))
Team USA: Speed and Chemistry (ESPN.com)

Driven to Distraction (The Providence Phoenix)
Snake Kills Owner (Rocky Mountain News:)
Jetliner Lust Attracts F-16s (New York Daily News Online)

BlackConsciousness
HYPE
Black Think Tank
The Global African Presence

74th Annual Academy Awards
Television doesn't accept new machine that can warp time (Newszine)

elaws
Everyday Law

Linguistic Profiling (ABCNEWS.com)
When Voice Recognition Leads to Bias (ABCNEWS.com)

Super Bowl Ads (IFILM)

The Blog Phenomenon (PCMag.com)

Patriots Win! (ESPN.com)

onlineblog.com

Tyson's gloves are off (BBC)
Tyson denied license to box (BBC)

Economic Depression and the New World Order (Center for Research on Globalisation)

BlackElectorate.com
Fade to White (The Village Voice)
Black studies: Fighting for respect (CNN.com)
Moderate Drinking Cuts Dementia Risk - Study (Reuters.com)
Women choose men who smell like dad (CBC News)
TheMoscowTimes.com

Davey D's Hip-Hop Corner
Draft me! (Guardian Unlimited)

Condomania

Play "The Los Angeles Policeman of the World" Game (Unknown News)
Liberal Arts Mafia

IQ Tests

N'Sync to Cameo in Star Wars 2 (Yahoo! News)
Fire And Motion (Joel on Software)
'You're Fired' Software is a Sign of the Times (NYPOST.COM)
Stanford to name Florida assistant Teevens as coach (ESPN.com)
Watson

Rose Bowl: Miami vs. Nebraska (ESPN.com)
KEYKatcher

Daze Reader
All Things Web
NAPSODY

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