Ator at ArsTechnica points out how bizarre it is that the whole Y2K story went from pretty much being the only story this time last year to completely disappearing from the radar screen today (when was the last time you heard the phrase Y2K?). He links to a News.Com story that points out the controversial law designed to forestall waves of Y2K lawsuits has been invoked a grand total of 18 times (the most bizarre case has to be someone suing Circuit City and Best Buy for selling non-Y2K compliant software. Why go after the middle men instead of the manufacturer? CC and BB should be sued for their salespeople’s complete lack of understanding about computers, but not for this nonsense).
Now if we could only get the national media to stop reporting every single non-development in the Jon Benet Ramsey case, I’d be happy.