] "In Washington, as in other parts of the country, pay
] phones are disappearing from the landscape."

The death of the fortress phone. A sad day. - Decius

With any luck this will drive down the cost of buying a payphone to hang on my living room wall.

Requiem for the Pay Phone (TechNews.com)

] "As the Web grows, websites continue to come up with ways
] to annoy users. Following are ten design mistakes that
] were particularly good at punishing users and costing
] site owners business in 2002."

Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 (Alertbox Dec. 2002)

Kinda scary that Norway hasn't fixed "Y2K" problems yet: "A 105 year old woman was offered a place in a Norwegian kindergarten after a millennium bug knocked a century off her age. "When our list showed she was born in '94' we just assumed it was 1994 rather than 1894," Olga Moerk, in charge of a project offering free day-care to five-year-olds in central Oslo, said on Friday." A social worker visited the old people's home where the woman lives after getting no reply to the free playschool offer.

Y2K Bug Bites 105 Year Old

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