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In this issue: Happy New Year!
Web site recommendations: "Best of 2002"

Today, I list some "best of 2002" lists I've found online, some are better
than others, I share all of them because it's interesting to see what
types of tops people bother to assemble.

Thanks, as always, to those who helped me find this stuff.

Hungarian tradition has it that the first thing you should eat in the New
Year is lentil soup for good luck. In case you'd like to join in on this
tradition, I've posted the recipe below:
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000153.html

All the best to you and yours for the New Year! (To my readers in Asia,
Australia/NZ, sorry this is a bit late.. we're a bit behind in some things
in the US...)

Law.com's Best of the Web 2002
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1039054427506

Top search terms in 2002 (I'll post a blog entry about this in a few days)
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,56861,00.html

Timeline of the Free Online Scholarship Movement (including some of the
main events in 2002)
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm

Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 (via amusing cartoons)
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20021223.html

On Target and Off in 2002 - the most overrated and underrated ideas
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/28/arts/28INTR.html

The Year in Film (from the American Prospect)
http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/24/parker-j.html

The Year in Pictures by the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/photo/20021230_YIP2002/index.html

Top Ten Stories of the Year on ZDNet UK (IT news)
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2127901,00.html

Interesting inventions in 2002
http://www.time.com/time/2002/inventions/

A Celebration Of Business Innovators And Ideas
http://forbes.com/2002/11/01/85.html

What's Missing From the Year's Top Religion Stories?
http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/000391.shtml#000391

Writers who died in 2002
http://www.mobylives.com/0bits_2002.html

Today's quote:
"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully
upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."
-- Alexander Graham Bell

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
Lentil soup for good luck in the New Year
Back to the basics
The thinking behind movie ratings
Today's front pages
Internet user statistics
More on airport security
See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com