Interesting: Jobs said last year that Apple was going for a 10 percent market share by 2005. There's been no talk of that in the recent Apple-speak about having only 5 percent of the market now and going after the other 95.

Ihnatko marvels at the Cube, speculates that Apple will (in January '01) come out with a "dazzling new consumer device" in "an entire[ly] new exciting product category."

Prediction: the Cube will sell like hotcakes -Dennis Sellers

I am writing this from inside the Apple Store in Germantown, TN! Cool!

My secretary says I'm the most curious person she knows.

The Air War
The war has pushed Bill O'Reilly into saying something my Republican peers had previously considered unfathomable, even sinful: profits and pure capitalism are not the only goals of a corporation, and the greater good is a more important "bottom line."

In the article linked above, O'Reilly advocates that airlines exercise corporate restraint in layoffs, initiate increased customer service hirings even if it hurts profitability, and implement cuts in executive bonuses.

I wonder if the pundits on the Republican airwaves will denounce Mr. O'Reilly or try to smooth the cognitive dissonance between his current and their long-standing positions by arguing that extreme circumstances call for extreme measures. If it's the latter, at least they'll admit that it's not a matter of principle, but a matter of degree.

Is It Time To Rethink American Immigration Policy?
Linda Chavez seems to think that increased tracking of aliens is what we need in this country to make it safer from terrorist attacks. But who says that will work? They wouldn't have helped against Timothy McVeigh. They wouldn't have helped against the terrorists who had not registered on the FBI's or CIA's radar previously. There will always be ways for sophisticated, well-coordinated aliens or even citizens to slip under the radar. Even without all the security controls that Chavez advocates, the terrorists had to implement advanced planning strategies to pull off the attacks on September 11. Implementing drastic controls will just force terrorists to find another weakness in the system.

21st century skyscrapers / Engineers say materials exist to build high-rises resistant to assault

Out of the ashes

Subway by Trade Center to Take Years to Rebuild

ABCNEWS.com : The Future of Ground Zero

CNN.com - San Francisco bans Internet filters at public libraries - October 3, 2001
I don't think the free speech issue is that important when it comes to surfing the Internet at a public library. So what if filters are imperfect? Full access to the Internet is not a right, and partial access to the Internet is better than no access at all, which would not be so odd when the Library is only recently a source of printed material.