The Swing Shift: Annual Murky Awards put the 'silly' back into Silicon Valley Posted at 8:21 p.m. PST Thursday, Dec. 28, 2000 BY MICHELLE QUINN AND TRACY SEIPEL http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/front/docs/ss122900.htm Mercury News
From Larry Ellison's cloak-and-dagger Dumpster-diving to the culinary thriller known as Vealgate, from the Y2K bug that never was to the power shortage that currently is, the year 2000 had more than its share of funny business and freakish bits of pseudo-news. Reporters dutifully and soberly recorded every last factoid. Now, it's time for us to step back and cast an arched eyebrow on the year just past. <...>