the Daily Whale - archive 2000

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2000

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The year 2000 was unique in being just another year. We will never see its like again.


	January	February	March
1	new millennium	popularity proverbs	surveillance
2	Y2K-OK	contradictory proverbs	negativism
3	one bug in 2000	opaque proverbs	Amadou Diallo lesson
4	software reliability	economic expansion quiz	Pinochet
5	party like it’s 1999	while you diet	Pinochet’s friends
6	Night Flight E-Tailing	history textbooks	trying Pinochet
7	Kitty Kelley	Joerg Haider	hectic
8	No-Day Day	sympathetic government	incompetence
9	flash memory	Haider take 2	zoology
10	thank you note	Haider’s irony onion	ducky election season
11	Chechnya: war of lies	trilogy	future
12	Chechnya: lose-lose	NEAR to Eros	past
13	AOL merger	lonely and unloved	present
14	life is a movie	stupendous love	Milky Way
15	drugs are a TV show	loved and lost	marches of Haider
16	memoir	denial of service	artist and critic
17	counting from zero	denial of service 2	Irish potatoes
18	bureaucratic language	denial of service 3	misunderstand
19	Ed Yourdon	apiary	China vs Taiwan
20	depression	Rampart enemies	Pascal’s Wager
21	mania	rule of Rampart	everything else
22	philanthropist	Rampart oversight	historic preservation
23	prospective relationship	be a cynic	real life
24	ETA terrorism	be an optimist	metaphor mixmaster
25	single function	pun	left blank
26	Earth	Echelon	not left blank
27	outer space	spamming Echelon	sun of love
28	super-genius	friendly Echelon	raising the bar
29	cliches	Echelon support	productive
30	merger mania		dysentery
31	technological spin cycle		answering prayers

	April	May	June
1	my mission	fight files	idiocy
2	cynical writers	vaporware	love quiz
3	birefringence	panic	haute couture
4	intelligence	video games	entrepreneur
5	Obuchi haiku	active television	epistemologists
6	prediction quiz	love bug	fail worst
7	substance abuse	crying	end of the world
8	cumin is Sumerian	blue-green algae	all else
9	wanna trade?	centrifugal meeting	knowledge isn’t power
10	heart castles	core irony	trust Microsoft
11	service pledge	burning bourbon	duty
12	build character	realism	President al-Assad
13	learn by doing	clean quiz	Fiji versus Syria
14	slogan quiz	what goes down	eyeball monetization
15	controversial	Sierra Leone	deface web sites
16	legacies	Sierra Leone 2	without you
17	IRS help line	proselytized	Hall of Fame
18	section 1250 gain	destiny	upkeep
19	more section 1250	RIP Bill	personality test
20	lousy t-shirt	Prince	these teeth
21	placebo job	not weird	plastic candidates
22	failure	revolutionary	commercial candidates
23	degrees of love	typo disclaimer	psychic hotline
24	Elian proverbs	Zalambessa	geek life cycle
25	great art	lots to do	being myself
26	included extremes	arrogance	stupid people
27	coward	honesty	remain silent
28	entrapment	decision support	remain silent 2
29	National Poetry Month	your contract	standards
30	One Microsoft	your contract 2	open source
31		your contract 3

	July	August	September
1	eat chocolate	feelings of learning	financially minded
2	sizes of death	peace of mind	still be enemies
3	no jokes today	privacy policy	extended lifespan
4	advice	spice of life	extended lifespan 2
5	Epimenides	choose for yourself	extended lifespan 3
6	Mexican election	invincible ink	tacks vs. tax
7	corporate control	honed	possibility
8	corporate hazard	Earth’s backyard	realism
9	corporate praise	convince myself	happy quiz
10	corporate focus	breakup quiz	happy realism
11	separate bathrooms	keep going quiz	living creativity
12	SDMI	get started quiz	buying happiness
13	opinions	raison d’etre	scripted entertainment
14	logo tattoo	needed advice	scripted RATS
15	in love quiz	get on with life	subliminal
16	movie trailer	political convention	used to life
17	computer essay grading	web	normal state
18	undocumented features	love everything	Chirac trade
19	crackpot philosopher	intimidation	dishwasher
20	ink advice	total loser	stages of morning
21	urgent task	the Kursk	judgment
22	vegetarian	Kursk news	won’t remember
23	medium	build character	ugly and beautiful
24	can’t learn from	slings and arrows	parmesan cheese
25	debugging	Mitsubishi quality	complete confidence
26	fix it in Photoshop	exception	intelligence test
27	love and joy	I’m a failure	fair elections
28	crazy game action	to be misunderstood	iron brain
29	fast-paced work	book garden	program documentation
30	not different	privacy policy	second-best things
31	ease of use	crash program

	October	November	December
1	always correct	decor quiz	easy question quiz
2	skill	meat sauce	very different
3	daily mistake	hot peppers	the incomprehensible
4	ultimate protection	shy: fault	love forever
5	good guys vs. bad guys	self-esteem	infinite blunders
6	restraint	campaign slogans	virtual reality
7	customer service	election day	revolutionary slogans
8	Turing Test	wallet	evil deed
9	mistaken marriage	equal election	kinds of people
10	blow up quiz	interesting	Diogenes 1
11	free love	last action	Diogenes 2
12	slow news day	who can know?	never refrain
13	sedate measures	mortal enemies	do unto others
14	in case of emergency	kings and experimenters	perfectionism
15	in case of emergency 2	forgetting	Excalibur
16	just be friends	attribution of quotes	epidemiology
17	shy: silence	election in court	fact and opinion
18	growing older	branches of government	fusing ideas
19	intelligence	do not live forever	acute shyness
20	stole my credibility	prepared mind	chronic shyness
21	more Weekly World News	ignorance	ambiguous ambiguity
22	requiting	child’s play	meant meaning
23	minor obscurantist	premonition	only flaw
24	backstory	watch children	glowing potato
25	best policy	give out	mush-brain moron
26	growth hormone	election war	reverse dynamo
27	imperfect	the one count	stop forgetting
28	leader in security	perfection	remembered shadow
29	equal security	any more than you do	cure for life
30	last word	good for a laugh	millennium quiz
31	time travel		abandon hopelessness