The NY Times asks what we should name this decade. I’m going to go with The Age of Illusions. It certainly matches the experience of those of us in the United States.

In the very first minute of the decade, we found out that the looming Y2K disaster wasn’t real…

There’s nothing like New York City — this has been said so many times in so many ways that it hardly bears repeating. But the compulsion to declare love for New York is like the compulsion for love itself: it doesn’t matter that countless generations have found this magic and proclaimed…

By my own admission, I’ve become a complete hack, for using the term [blank]-killer. A lot of people are asking whether News Corp would really block its content from Google’s index, and make a deal with Microsoft for exclusive search access. And if they did, and others followed, would this represent a…