? Time Canada apparently let the cat out of the bag last night by publishing its cover story about a new iMac prematurely. The Time link that several sites referred to is no longer active, but basically the machine is a half-globe with an arm that holds out a flat panel display. I hate to say it, but it’s a little underwhelming.

in Wired News: 2001: A Failure Odyssey. A funny look back on what a stereotypical “geek” would/could have lived on January 2, 2001.

: Montreal heroes and zeroes 2001.

: Tom Cruise, meet Lars Ulrich. Tom Cruise looks like he might be taking on a similar role in the film world as Metallica did vis-a-vis Napster.

is providing good coverage of a recent hoo-haw in the newsrooms of Canada. It seems that the new owners of the Southam family of newspapers, the Asper family, has mandated that several editorials a week will appear in each of a dozen papers – editorials written at head office. More disturbingly, the local editors have been spiking editorials or columns that take a different position. Must we now grudgingly admit that at least Tubby Black had a marginal respect for “the newspaper” as an institution?