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December 2001

• 31st • linguistics • Neil Smith and Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli • The Mind of a Savant
• 30th • SF film • LotR I: The Fellowship of the Ring
• 20th • SF • John Ringo • A Hymn Before Battle
• 18th • complexity • NK network • Java applet
• 17th • SF • Marion Zimmer Bradley • Sword and Sorceress XVIII
• 17th • cartoon • Illiad • The Root of All Evil
• 16th • SF film • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• 9th • SF TV • Cleopatra 2525

November 2001

• 28th • business • Malcolm Gladwell • The Tipping Point
• 25th • complexity • Mandelbroids and Julioids • Java applet
• 18th • Dilbert • Scott Adams • Excuse Me While I Wag
• 10th • SF film • Gattaca
• 8th • computing/UI • Jeff Johnson • GUI Bloopers
• 4th • Dilbert • Scott Adams • Don't Step in the Leadership
• 4th • language • Steven Pinker • Words and Rules

October 2001

• 20th • SF • Simon R. Green • Beyond the Blue Moon
• 15th • SF • Simon R. Green • Two Kings in Haven
• 13th • complexity • Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen • Self-Organized Criticality
• 8th • SF film • eXistenZ
• 7th • SF • Simon R. Green • Guard Against Dishonor

September 2001

• 29th • ALife • Stefan Helmreich • Silicon Second Nature
• 29th • Z • full text of "Segregation with Communication"
• 29th • Z • full text of "Formal Methods for Industrial Products"
• 29th • Z • full text of "Typechecking Z"
• 29th • Z • full text of "Type-constrained Generics for Z"
• 18th • evolution • Henry Gee • Deep Time
• 16th • OO • Paul Evitts • A UML Pattern Language
• 15th • SF • Simon R. Green • Vengeance for a Lonely Man

• 11th • a day that will live in infamy

• 9th • SF film • Lost in Space
• 6th • computers/nanotech • Damien Broderick • The Spike
• 4th • SF • Simon R. Green • The God Killer
• 2nd • SF • Simon R. Green • Devil Take the Hindmost
• 1st • SF • Simon R. Green • No Haven for the Guilty

August 2001

• 31st • OO • John Cheesman and John Daniels • UML Components
• 28th • SF TV • Seven Days
• 27th • SF • Sharon Lee and Steve Miller • Scout's Progress
• 26th • SF • Sharon Lee and Steve Miller • Local Custom
• 26th • AI/robotics • Rodney A. Brooks • Cambrian Intelligence
• 25th • SF film • Shrek
• 19th • SF TV • Stargate SG-1 • season 3
• 18th • complexity • James Kennedy and Russell C. Eberhart • Swarm Intelligence
• 12th • science • John L. Casti and Anders Karlqvist • Mission to Abisko
• 4th • SF • Marjorie Phillips • Annabel and Tawny
• 3rd • computing • Rosalind W. Picard • Affective Computing

July 2001

• 31st • cosmology • Martin Rees • Just Six Numbers
• 28th • astrophysics • full text of "Numerical fits to important rates in high temperature astrophysical plasmas"
• 25th • OO • Alistair Cockburn • Writing Effective Use Cases
• 22nd • SF film • Village of the Damned
• 21st • OO • Philippe Kruchten • The Rational Unified Process: an introduction
• 15th • fiction • Donald E. Westlake • Trust Me on This
• 15th • SF film • The Fifth Element
• 10th • astrophysics • full text of "Pair production at moderate optical depths"
• 8th • SF film • Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

June 2001

• 30th • SF TV • The 10th Kingdom
• 25th • SF• David V. Barrett • "Annabel and Bryony: a sequel, half a century on"
• 24th • astrophysics • full text of "Pair production, Comptonization and dynamics in astrophysical plasmas"
• 23rd • cosmology • Lee Smolin • The Life of the Cosmos
• 22nd • computing • Lenat and Guha • Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems
• 20th • SF TV • Angel, season 1
• 18th • SF TV • Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 4
• 16th • SF TV • Charmed, season 2
• 11th • filk • Gordon McDonald, Jr. • You Can't Keep Me From Singing
• 5th • computing • Eric Raymond • The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• 3rd • complexity • Stuart Kauffman • Investigations
• 3rd • joke • Don Harper Mills • 1994's Most Bizarre Suicide
• 2nd • astrophysics • full text of Relativistic Thermal Plasmas
• 2nd • SF film • Sphere

May 2001

• 29th • SF • Ghillian Potts • "Marjorie Phillips: a Neglected Writer"
• 28th • SF TV • The Others
• 28th • philosophy • James P. Carse • Finite and Infinite Games
• 20th • film • The Dish
• 12th • computing • full text of "A Formal Specification of an Access Control System"
• 12th • computing • full text of "Access Management in multi-administration networks"
• 9th • filk • Mark A. Mandel • The DHMO Song
• 4th • computing • full text of "Pictorial Representation of Parallel Programs"
• 4th • computing • full text of "Understanding Multi-transputer Execution"
• 4th • computing • full text of "GRAIL: Graphical Representation of Activity, Interconnection and Loading"

April 2001

• 29th • The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
• 28th • SF • J. D. Austin • Bobby's Girl
• 27th • SF • David Gerrold • Jumping Off the Planet
• 26th • SF con • Paragon: Eastercon 2001
• 23rd • ALife • Mark Ward • Virtual Organisms
• 20th • SF • Tanya Huff • The Second Summoning
• 16th • technology • Neil Gershenfeld • When Things Start to Think
• 12th • film • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• 8th • computing • Martin Fowler • Analysis Patterns
• 6th • SF • Katherine Blake • The Interior Life
• 4th • joke • Dear Mr Architect

March 2001

• 29th • computing • Jeffries, Anderson, and Hendrickson • Extreme Programming Installed
• 27th • computing • Martin Fowler with Kendall Scott • UML Distilled
• 26th • SF • Kristine Smith • Code of Conduct
• 23rd • computing • Andrew Hunt and David Thomas • The Pragmatic Programmer
• 18th • SF • David Weber • Changer of Worlds
• 16th • computing • Kent Beck and Martin Fowler • Planning Extreme Programming
• 15th • SF • news of sequel to Marjorie Phillips' Annabel and Bryony
• 11th • SF • Simon R. Green • Blue Moon Rising
• 8th • computing • Ian Sommerville and Pete Sawyer • Requirements Engineering
• 6th • computing • William J. Brown et al • AntiPatterns and Patterns in Software Configuration Management
• 4th • SF • Pamela Dean • The Dubious Hills
• 4th • filk • Rich Brown • Hole In The Nothing
• 4th • joke • 24 interesting things that you learn about computers in the movies...

February 2001

• 24th • computing • Peter Millican and Andy Clark • Machines and Thought
• 20th • computing/humour • The Common Business-Oriented Goldilocks
• 20th • filk • The Eve Of Midwinter
• 18th • SF • S. L. Viehl • Endurance
• 17th • SF • Marion Zimmer Bradley • Sword and Sorceress XVII
• 14th • computing • Yen-Ping Shan and Ralph E. Earle • Enterprise Computing with Objects
• 11th • SF • Matt Ruff •Sewer, Gas and Electric
• 10th • SF TV • Roswell High • season 1
• 3rd • SF TV • Stargate SG-1 • season 2

January 2001

• 27th • humour • Wendy Northcutt • The Darwin Awards
• 25th • SF • James H. Schmitz • Trigger and Friends
• 19th • Z • abstract of "New Horizons in Formal Methods"
• 14th • physics/complexity • Murray Gell-Mann • The Quark and the Jaguar
• 3rd • SF film • Deep Impact
• 2nd • SF TV • Crusade
• 1st • SF film • The Postman

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