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December 2000

• 29th • SF • Peter F. Hamilton • The Nano Flower
• 28th • SF • Peter F. Hamilton • A Quantum Murder
• 26th • SF film • The Borrowers
• 24th • SF film • The Nightmare before Christmas
• 23rd • SF film • Muppets from Space
• 22nd • SF film • Toothless
• 22nd • SF TV • Futurama
• 21st • SF • James H. Schmitz • T'nT: Telzey and Trigger Together
• 21st • SF film • The Craft
• 20th • SF film • Contact
• 20th • SF TV • Farscape, season 2
• 19th • SF • Barry Hughart • Bridge of Birds
• 17th • SF film • Beetlejuice
• 14th • SF film • The Lost World: Jurassic Park
• 6th • SF • Lee Killough • Dragon's Teeth

November 2000

• 30th • science • Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen • The Science of Discworld
• 26th • SF • Lee Killough • Spider Play
• 25th • SF • Lee Killough • The Doppelganger Gambit
• 19th • SF • Esther Friesner • The Chick is in the Mail
• 18th • SF con • Novacon 30
• 12th • SF • Tanya Huff • The Fire's Stone
• 8th • SF • Laurell K. Hamilton • Obsidian Butterfly
• 4th • future • James Gleick • Faster
• 1st • computing • Martin Fowler • Refactoring

October 2000

• 29th • economics/computing • Kevin Kelly • New Rules for the New Economy
• 28th • SF • Pauline Ashwell • Unwillingly to Earth
• 24th • music • Capercaillie •Nàdurra 2000 Tour
• 8th • SF • Poul Anderson • Operation Luna
• 7th • SF • Poul Anderson • Operation Chaos
• 4th • computing • Michael Huth and Mark Ryan • Logic in Computer Science
• 3rd • computing • Pattern Languages of Program Design
• 1st • SF • Neal Stephenson • The Diamond Age
• 1st • computer humour • Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL

September 2000

• 22nd • SF TV • Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 3
• 21st • physics • Alan Guth • The Inflationary Universe
• 18th • crime fiction • Sarah Caudwell • The Shortest Way to Hades
• 17th • SF • Samuel Delany • Babel-17
• 16th • SF TV • Charmed, season 1
• 10th • SF • James P. Hogan • Minds, Machines & Evolution
• 5th • physics • Brian Greene • The Elegant Universe
• 3rd • Z • full text of "Systems Development using Z Generics"
• 3rd • SF • James White • Double Contact

August 2000

• 27th • SF film • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• 26th • SF • Julie E. Czerneda • Ties of Power
• 25th • SF film • X-Men
• 20th • Modesty Blaise • Peter O'Donnell • Cobra Trap
• 19th • SF • Leo Frankowski • A Boy and His Tank
• 13th • SF • S. L. Viehl • Beyond Varallan
• 7th • numbers • factors of Mersenne numbers
• 7th • SF • S. L. Viehl • StarDoc
• 5th • SF film • Chicken Run

July 2000

• 30th • SF • The Eye of Argon • more background
• 29th • computing, OO • John Vlissides • Pattern Hatching
• 23rd • SF • Gregory Benford, ed • Far Futures
• 23rd • joke • Aircraft customer survey
• 17th • SF / language • The Eye of Argon via Russian and Japanese
• 12th • chaos • Stephen H. Kellert • In the Wake of Chaos
• 10th • SF • Elizabeth Moon • Change of Command
• 8th • SF • Elizabeth Moon • Rules of Engagement
• 2nd • SF • Robin McKinley • Spindle's End

June 2000

• 29th • "open letter to Dr Laura"
• 17th • SF • J. K. Rowling • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• 11th • SF • James H. Schmitz • Telzey Amberdon
• 10th • SF • Catherine Asaro • The Last Hawk
• 5th • SF TV • Farscape, season 1
• 4th • computers • David Shenk • Data Smog

May 2000

• 31st • computing • Kent Beck • Extreme Programming Explained
• 31st • Z • Abstract of "Formal Methods for Industrial Products"
• 28th • SF • Robert Heinlein • Requiem
• 27th • cosmology • Paul Davies • The Last Three Minutes
• 27th • computers • Donald A. Norman • The Invisible Computer
• 25th • SF film • The Truman Show
• 19th • SF • Julie E. Czerneda • A Thousand Words for Stranger
• 14th • film • The Net
• 13th • computer cartoons • Illiad • Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell
• 7th • SF • Greg Egan • Luminous
• 6th • SF film • The Relic
• 1st • SF film • Mars Attacks!
• 1st • computing • Kent Beck • Guide to Better Smalltalk
• 1st • SF film • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: the Movie

April 2000

• 29th • SF film • Galaxy Quest
• 26th • SF con • 2Kon: Eastercon 2000
• 26th • Dilbert • Scott Adams • Random Acts of Management
• 25th • SF • David Weber • Ashes of Victory
• 20th • SF • Tanya Huff • Valor's Choice
• 11th • SF • SFnal technobabble
• 11th • filk • Harold Feld • The Wise Fen and The Filk
• 11th • filk • Dave Weingart •Vaxymandius
• 9th • SF • Anne McCaffrey • Restoree
• 9th • SF film • Total Recall
• 8th • SF • Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois • Nanotech
• 4th • Z • full text of "The Use of Z"
• 4th • Z • full text of "Annotated Z Bibliography"
• 4th • Z • Abstract of "Segregation with Communication"
• 4th • Z • Abstract of "Type-constrained Generics for Z"
• 4th • Z • Abstract of "Typechecking Z"
• 2nd • SF • Eric Frank Russell • Wasp

March 2000

• 26th • SF • Diana Wynne Jones • A Sudden Wild Magic
• 18th • SF TV • Buffy the Vampire Slayer, seasons 1 and 2
• 14th • business • Tom Peters • The Circle of Innovation
• 12th • music • Máire Brennan concert
• 12th • SF film • Toy Story 2
• 10th • SF • Tanya Huff •The Quartered Sea
• 5th • SF TV • First Wave, season 1
• 1st • joke • Metriculation

February 2000

• 27th • SF • Julie E. Czerneda • Beholder's Eye
• 25th • formal methods • full text of "A Tale of Two Proofs"
• 22nd • computing, OO • William J. Brown et al • AntiPatterns
• 13th • SF • Greg Egan • Quarantine
• 10th • quantum computing • Williams and Clearwater • Ultimate Zero and One
• 6th • SF • Kristen Britain • Green Rider

January 2000

• 24th • formal methods • full text of "Incremental Development of a High Integrity Compiler"
• 23rd • SF • David Weber • The Apocalypse Troll
• 17th • Web • Bertrand Meyer • What has changed
• 16th • SF • Sharon Lee & Steve Miller • Plan B
• 15th • SF • Steve Miller & Sharon Lee • Carpe Diem
• 15th • SF • The 'cocktail party answer'
• 14th • SF • Steve Miller & Sharon Lee • Conflict of Honors
• 10th • SF • Steve Miller & Sharon Lee • Agent of Change
• 5th • SF • Tanya Huff • The Last Wizard
• 4th • SF • Tanya Huff • Child of the Grove

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