A Conversation with Steven Jay Gould

January 28, 2000 – 12:00 am

From the New York Times, a conversation with Steven Jay Gould, one of my favorite polymaths, on creationism, writing, living in New York, and Y2K.

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Gary North, Misestimating Prophet

January 3, 2000 – 12:00 am

So, according to professional doomsayer Gary North, the US was supposed to be in flames today. Sorry, but it looks as if the Y2K bug was either fixed, mitigated, or just not as bad as we thought. To be fair, Dr. Helen Caldicott was just as sure that all the world’s nuclear reactors were going [...]

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Crisis Investing for Y2K

June 2, 1999 – 12:00 am

The latest form of Y2K preparation may be short-selling blue-chip stocks.

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Gary North’s Y2K Hype [ via Outrage ]

January 31, 1999 – 12:00 am

More evidence that the biggest Y2K problem is religious zealotry. Mr. North has a history of trying to start hysterias and panics.
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All The Worlds’ Endings

January 5, 1999 – 12:00 am

A long list of all the announced dates for the End of the World, past and future. They also noted the “Concerned Christians” sect (recently arrested at a compound on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem) before they were front-page news.
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Common Signs of Destructive Cults

January 5, 1999 – 12:00 am

Call it “The Other Y2K Problem,” those pesky groups stockpiling guns, weapons of mass destruction, and web sites with lots of <blink> tags.
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US Gov’t Prepares for Y2K ‘War Games’

January 5, 1999 – 12:00 am

The plan is for all Cabinet-level departments to participate in disaster response simulations.
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Will Y2K be Like Comdex or a Warm Martini

January 3, 1999 – 12:00 am

At COMDEX things barely work because all the resources (phone lines, switches, taxis, people) are at their limits. If everything is working, but just barely, this might be an analogy for Y2K.
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Phil Agre on Distance Learning, Networks of Trust, Y2K, and Internet Scams

December 15, 1998 – 12:00 am

On a new category of suspcious email messages purporting to come from long-lost friends and family:
“For the sake of argument, then, let us say that I have now identified a new category of online scams. Some people will respond to this by blaming the medium. The Internet, it will be held, is not [...]

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After the Bug

November 24, 1998 – 12:00 am

A Y2K soap opera. Gotta love the splash screen.
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Y2K: Who Will Do What and When Will They Do It?

November 15, 1998 – 12:00 am

An essay from the Awakening book mentioned previously. This is an expansion of the version in the book that includes several diagrams.
The key points are that people, companies and governments are still unwilling to share information on Y2K which is needed to locate points of failure so we can build contingencies, and that we have [...]

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Y2K Compliance Statement Database

November 15, 1998 – 12:00 am

Ed Yardeni’s database of Y2K readiness statements culled from the annual statements of traded companies.
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Ed Yardeni’s Y2K Book

November 15, 1998 – 12:00 am

Dr. Edward Yardeni, chief economist at the Deutches Bank Securities, has a comprehensive page on how Y2K effects the world economy.
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Awakening: The Upside of Y2K

November 15, 1998 – 12:00 am

A collection of essays from people in ‘green business,’ community planning and the like which doesn’t understate the Y2K problem, but it doesn’t take the “buy gold and guns and head for the desert” approach of which so many people are enamored.
Mitigation (there’s that word again) is the watch word. Consider Y2K as an opportunity [...]

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Phil Agre uses the Rhetoric of the Conservatives

November 15, 1998 – 12:00 am

A delightful piece by Prof. Agre, where:
Just once, I would like to see someone rant about conservatives in the same tones of hysterical exaggeration that now pour forth from every medium, 24 hours a day, in excoriation of the real and imagined perfidy of liberals. What would this sound like? Let me offer an [...]

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