Monkeyfist is a Prosthetic Monkey production and contains the deranged rantings of geeks, freaks and academic snobs. Why are people protesting in D.C.? Florham Park, NJ seems to be the first out of the block. Wondering why should the World Bank, the IMF and the U.S. cancel foreign debt? Jubilee 2000's Debt Crisis Guide will tell you. Preparing for the inevitable... 50 Years is too much. The BBC takes a less pro-IMF/World Bank knee jerk look at the A16 protests. Washington Post reports on some early arrests. OneWorld.net's A16 source page is up... Let's hit the World Bank where it'll hurt the most: squarely on the bottom line! The Internet interprets evil globalization as evil and satirizes it. ZMag provides a site chock full of top-flight analysis of the political economy behind World Bank and IMF. To protect what and to serve whom? Use this protest art to bring the protest to your neighborhood. Jeff Wiggin is tracking A16 on his Blogit site. Let's see what the anarchists intend. The police crackdown starts to heat up. Radical Street Puppets Create Carnival of Democracy What leads police to be able to do this? Democracy now! Vandana Shiva, anti-corporate ecofeminist from India, speaks truth about power. Wrapping up A16.Monkeyfist.com CourierWare makes damn fine bags! What corporations think of the Seattle WTO protests. Can't make it to D.C. for the IMF protests? Then participate in the Electrohippies electronic civil disobedience: shut down the IMF/World Bank Web sites. Korten and Grossman are coming to Texas. Who the hell are Korten and Grossman? Read on, fair reader, read on... The flag burning amendment is barely defeated... this time. The courts say you can protest on New York's capital steps. Hurrah! Washington Post coverage of global trade issues/protests is excellent Lots of facts, figures and analysis of US military exports around the world. Friends, they may think it's a MOVEMENT, and that's what it is. The action isn't over until the last protester is out of jail. The May Day 2000 Global Celebration. Can't ANYTHING ever be handled through reasonable compromise? A new generation of political activists is using the Internet to engage in civil disobedience. Seattle and DC were just the coming out parties of American activists. The next highpoint in the American version of the anti-corporate globalism movement will occur in Philadelphia during the Republican National Convention. Ward Churchill's COINTELPRO papers are must reading. IPPN's National Summit in June. First Seattle, then Washington DC. Next up is Detroit and Windsor. It would not be inappropriate to have a Letter from Philadelphia City Jail. The worldwide movement to oppose corporate globalization continues apace in Melbourne and Prague; when will you bring it to your town? Kill your car, and the rest will follow. Dallas, Texas, Land of the Enchanted Smogmobile sees its first Critical Mass on World Car Free Day 2000. As police repression heats up in Prague, a call for international solidarity must not go unheeded. Al Gore refuses to speak against Occidental Petroleum's treatment of the U'wa people in Colombia. Gore holds a large stake of Occidental stock. Dallas activists tried to make his reluctance more difficult and more public. The weekend of October 13 saw protests over a wide-range of social issues, and Monkeyfist.com was there to document them. Your Author receives anonymous, puerile hate mail, presumably in response to PhillyCriticism. A selection of photos from Quebec City. The G-8 goes to Genoa, Italy; you know, Italy, the place with the proud anarchist tradition. An interview with the Surveillance Camera Players. Pacifica strike details available. There's a Web site to translate Morse code. Well, of course there is. A new site tracks the media in a world of mega-conglomerate media behemoths. Another indepenent media source fighting the ravages of corporate globalism. Sites with art. Lots of art. Modern and classic. An interesting site sculpture display is disappearing right now in London. Track flights in the air. A discussion about the nature of work from Samuel R. Delany's novel Nova. In so many ways, the nomination and confirmation of John Ashcroft to the post of Attorney General is an affront to the overwhelming majority of African-Americans; that confirmation came at the start Black History month is the icing on the cake. Notes and reflections in response to Audre Lourde's essay, "The Master's tools will never tear down the Master's house". It's a book about nothing and everything. Another good one's gone. Ever wondered what the hell those numbers are on the back of your new book? Walter Mosely is a genius of popular fiction. That's the easy part. He's also a perceptive social critic with a Marxist bent. Planning a trip to Cuba? Thoreau pretty much didn't write anything bad. Gonzalez, co-host of Democracy Now!, has a new book. Your Private Sky, a book about Buckminster Fuller's art of design science. How did American turn into a vast suburban wasteland? A review of Patricia McKillip's The Tower At Stony Wood, with associated reflections on chivalric romance, its limitations, and how McKillip reinvents it. A quick reaction to "Harry Potter IV" and some attendant phenomena. Think locally, sell out globally. I forgot. Chuck Taggart is right about iced tea but wrong about Luzianne. They say sex is the first industry to exploit new technology. Excellent piece on how America was founded not only to escape the power of monarchy and religion, but the corporation. The New York Times addresses Davos, but asks no questions. To diversify or not to diversify? The President inadvertently exposes the corporate hypocrisy and disproves the alleged egalitarianism in Davos. The Wall Street journal notes that since the feds are borrowing less, the boom in bond trading is over. Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery (CLAWS) is a collective of individuals exploring a sensible alternative to society's "earning a living." Former World Bank chief economist explains how/why the IMF and the U.S. Treasury department screwed up world finance. Using tight money tactics to fix a contractionary economic situation is beyond stupid. Real Goods promotes and inspires an environmentally healthy and sustainable future. A new specter is haunting Europe, the specter of cyanide gas. Donella Meadows explains why "inevitable" economic globalization inevitably leads to ecological disasters. Exotic predators have just about wiped out the New Zealand national symbol. There's a solution, but it's going to take a lot of money and effort. DOE has a South-facing wall. They want it to be pretty and functional. Earth Charter Commission members met at UNESCO headquarters in Paris from March 13-15 to review the Charter. Another accident threatens the environment. People are part of the environment. Greenwash: polluters pretending to be environmentalists so they can do more polluting. Explosion on Chemical Row near Houston Ship Channel. The discovery of a lot of old paint triggers a web search for paint disposal resources. Greenpeace and Adbusters team up on the world's biggest brand. Golden Rice, billed as a panacea for "a million kids" by Time Magazine, has a more complex story behind it. We can't afford Gore's kind of environmentalism. Think about this before you agree to donate your organs. Here's the complete series. March 8th is International Women's Day. Yet another in a string of wonderful collections of the ongoing series. No deliberation needed: just get it. Review of "Blue Light" from the master of Afro-noir. He still writes with a pen, standing up. Read Jane Austen, NOW! Just a great line from Mr. Cranky. Sometimes, brilliance *is* recognized in its own time. New claymation coming from the masters of the genre. I loved all the movies this one reminds me of, but I'm disturbed by some of them at the same time. "Gladiator" is no less a political film for its eschewing of relevant political content or commentary, and as such it falls short of the standard set by "Spartacus". Not a good film, but I persist in liking it. Robbie Burns' birthday is January 25. Don't forget to accompany your haggis with a wee drap o' whisky. Life got you down? Chocolate Egg Cream to the rescue. Wasabi peas are food of the gods. Henckels cutlery rules. "A sweet corner of Italy just over the Ponte del Cancello Dorato." We dined on the wee beasties of the sea last night. A breastfeeding information and advocacy site. Do you want to feed genetically-engineered milk to your children? I'm not the only one. Whole Foods has an undeserved reputation among progressives. Thai Ocha in Houston serves good Thai fare with excellent service. An over 12 year relationship is still going strong. The first president of the new South Africa spent 27 years in prison there. Joan Crawford stuck by her brand(s). Shelby Foote tells, and tells about the Civil War. Jared Diamond explains world history in terms of geography, natural selection. Seems our own Mike Billips is "seeing other people". Billips attempts lame defense of self-plagiarism. Cites Lileks. Tom Mangan, SJose copy editor, interviews the obscure and semi-obscure. The scandal is deeper than initially thought, and the only ones complaining are TV Guide? Wham! Ka-Pow! You go, boy. The Supremes has reaffirmed the Miranda decision. Wes Felter in shorts?!!?! Run and hide. I know what they mean; my house is just infested with cute, cuddly, little rats. Wash Post article throws water on what had become a mini-cause celebre among some right wingers. Observation gleaned from late night TV. Alabama bashing. Willie B. is dead. Long live Kidogo! Quackery in New York The AJC profiles people who gave up high-dollar corporate jobs, either for more personally meaningful work, or just less of it. Wonder where dead people are? Wonder no more. New York writer laments being too old to boom, to young to X. Enumerating thoughts about the Census Ok, not all that much like Sei Shonagon. Elizabeth Gaskell's examination of a quirk of human psychology. Don't be afraid, go see your mental health professional! In which the new homeowner ponders how to cut the grass in an easy, yet environmentally friendly, manner. Terry Love, plumber to the Microserfs, answers my question. Nitpicking at a difficulty of language, thought, and action. Python, Window Manager, X Window Novell violates the GPL? Coldstore is an object persistence mechanism for Linux. It isn't finished, but it's progressing nicely. JEmacs is a Java implementation of Emacs. Sound scary? Never fear, Per Bothner is here! OSWG is a good group of open source documentation folks. They are debuting a new Web site. Epsilon is a legendary Emacs-like editor for DOS and Windows since the early days of DOS 2.0. It's now available for Linux. This should be interesting. SUBTERFUGUE is a Python interface on the Linux kernel; kind of like a cross between strace and expect. It's wild, it's dangerous, it can hose your system. Rick Moen gets the whole LUG thing. You can't have a community relationship with Red Hat, Inc. I'd like to get some user reports about APC's Smart-UPS 700 or 1000. LinuxCare, just months ago a pre-IPO darling, now faces a very uncertain future. Red Hat isn't even cool! Much less is it the totality of the Linux world. "It just seemed like a natural to join forces," Eisnergatescasebezosmurdochellisonturner said. "By bringing together our capabilities in the entertainment, high tech, pharmaceutical, precious metals, automotive and other industries, we're better able Salon.com casts light on our Prez's dirty little secret. No, not that one. The Modern Humorist spoofs the Harper's Index. How free is the media and the Net around the world? It wasn't bad enough that the evil FCC enabled the corporate takeover of our precious broadcast spectrum four years ago; now they want to go further. New ways of paying for your MP3s? It's a matter of who owns the resources. Democracy Now! does unique service to the body politic; censorship and repression of it must be resisted. Salon lags behind the news. Project Censored has a new Web site; find out what they haven't been telling you. Why must the left eat its own by aping Republicans? The source of all geek news finally covers some old news. Lefty pundits claim W is toast I heard a bit of this song on Atlanta's WRFG yesterday. It tickled me. It's about the Supreme Court. Billy Bragg is the only thing to listen to in the small hours, when there's miles of dissertation to go before you sleep. Boston-based bass/bari sax/drums trio releases final album. Robert Spano will succeed Yoel Levi as the Atlanta Symphony's 4th conductor. The German string quartet covers the funky wunderkind's tribute to the jazz legend. NPR makes a full-length web-only show from those little music snippets between stories. The second line will also be in attendance. Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear... Buena Vista Social Club rules. The voice of divine ecstasy. What's in a name? Woody Guthrie wrote beautiful and important music, more of it than nearly any other American songwriter. napster as the new freedom from exploitation? Tito Puento dead at 77. Goa trance music is cool. How to sing freedom even if you aren't politically unabashed. Ibrahim Ferrer is a treasure. Have you ever heard of John and Alan Lomax? Convention planners can't restrict free speech, says judge. The pleasure is a visit to the in-laws; the business is protesting our country's role in the death of innocent civilians. The US is broadcasting propaganda into Afghanistan. Read the official DefenseLink.mil transcripts. Simone de Beauvoir was the real philosopher; Sartre was just a poseur. Jon Barwise was an influential and important philosopher and logician. With a few caveats, Lakatos: And Introduction is a readable, stimulating introduction to Lakatos' work, and, indeed, to mid-century philosophy of science. Little immediate reaction to Diallo verdict. Expert on police brutality testified for Diallo cops because they were just following the (heinous) rules. It's the NYPD's fault, not the individual cops'. Careful with those wallets, they might be loaded! They're not only criminals, they're poor sports about getting caught. The Diallo killers are acquitted and police violence spikes upward in NYC. A coincidence? Police brutality isn't on the rise; it's mainly a local problem in New York, caused by their jackass of a mayor. Deputy abuses protesters; deputy gets canned. The FBI's UCR are deeply flawed. U.S. police and prison brutality condemned in the latest U.N. Committee on Torture report. The furor over Bruce Springsteen's new song is as confused as it is insensitive. Is the Israeli parliament going to legalize torture in a split from the Isaraeli Supreme Court? The government announced a code of conduct for the military today that ends its ban on openly gay men and women serving in the armed forces. ACORN's Living Wage Campaigns seek to raise the standard of living of workers around the country by insisting that employers pay a living wage. We must all learn to live together as brothers - or we will all perish together as fools. James Cone explores the meaning of Martin and Malcolm for America. This article is full of holes. That doesn't mean that I agree with eco-terrorism, though. Randall Robinson makes a compelling case for black reparations. Barry Saunders is tired of the "I Have a Dream" speech. MLK's historic "Letter From the Birmingham Jail" Michael Moore takes on the U.S.'s Cuba policy. "Star Wars" technology is a defense contractor boondoggle to the tune of $3.3B in the present budget and as much as $55B since 1983. To understand the talk of inclusion in Davos, you have to understand what the implied boundaries of globalization are. South Carolinians have a peculiar definition of "Southerner." The New Abolitionists are traitors to the "white" race, and it's a damn good thing! How can any politician take credit for this? The gap between rich and poor is shameful; why are Clinton and Gore so proud? George Bush's political ambitions, in Texas and nationally, float upon a never-ending tide of scummy money. Unaccountably, not even the most desperately poor and discriminated-against Americans are availing themselves of the opportunity to live in Cuba. Bayard Rustin is the most important Civil Rights leader you've never heard of. Granny D. is walking across America to bring attention to the problems of campaign finance reform. Oh, yeah, she's 90. The Times seems to see a small problem with the huge number of early primaries. Dailydavos.com is a Web site published by Newsweek. The politics of Micro Radio don't look good. Originally released via AK Press/ Allied; re-issued December 1999 by AT. A refutation of the fantasies marketed as the "American Dream." The gulf between reality and a "free market" where entrepeneurs can compete on a level playing field is growing da Canaries on the Rim tells an ugly story of environmental spoilage in the West. Salon magazine article shows how point-of-view journalism is often more informative than the "objective" variety. Drug war's failure got you down? Why not violate the Constitution and censor drug speech? Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts explains what the Civil War was all about. Did the Catholic Church aid and abet Ustashe? Sign a petition expressing support for freeing of political prisoners in America. Bertelsmann, on of the largest English-language publishers in the world, admits Nazi past. Blackfoot Nation meeting to consider declaring its independence of the United States and Canada. Protests in Davos on Saturday, but the AP wire reports should be read very critically. The New Republic does a take on Roger Milliken, the billionaire South Carolina textile magnate who provides funding to anti-free-trade groups. How did Michael Moore start a mosh pit for Republican presidential candidates? Wen Ho Lee wasn't the only guy to ever download secrets to his personal computer; unlike John Deutch, he just happened to be Chinese. POTUS is the egalitarianistest of all! The New Republic looks at Orrin Hatch's bizarre ex-candidacy. Vaporize your enemies for fun and profit. Do animals have rights? Prison labor for corporations is abominable. It puts regular joes out of work and exploits the very people that should be getting rehabilitated all for greater corporate profit. What are they so afraid of? The novelist makes some predictions in his address at Davos. Appropriately, considering the setting, they aren't pretty. Rudy Giuliani believes the pre-event music at Hillary Clinton's official campaign kick-off provides some clues to her hidden agenda. A University (sic) of Georgia study shows that (at least in Georgia), the rate of tort lawsuits is dropping, juries are less likely than judges to side with plaintiffs, and $1 million verdicts are extremely rare. Europeans don't piss and moan; they take their fights to the streets. You can't say what you want about corporations? You can't say bad things about corporations? His money grabbing ruined my nice evening drive... Grrr! These people ought to be given medals. 50 years ago yesterday, the little-known senator from Wisconsin began a campaign of red-baiting. Why with less than 5% of the world's population does the US have 25% of the world's inmates? A new Chomsky book is an event to celebrate. Dyson takes on the unjustified and misleading deification of MLK in order to show MLK to be a real moral hero. It's hard not to like the McCain when you find out who doesn't. Dying for Growth explodes the myths of the WTO, IMF and their ilk: that development loans improve the developing world; that "big government" is the enemy of people; that free markets are a cure-all or reall free at all. Thought the law meant no munitions could be sold to China since the Tiananmen Square massacre? Wrong! Salon.com reporter is naive or just stupid? Perhaps both. The New Republic's Sean Wilentz puts paid to the conventional foolishness about "Clinton fatigue." 41 shots, 19 wounds but no one is responsible? All the presidential candidate scandals that're fit to HTTP. Thousands demonstrate in NYC, demanding justice for Amadou Diallo. The Secretary of State has been mentioned as a candidate for the next presidency of the Czech Republic. Some of the forensic evidence used to convict Odell Barnes, scheduled to die in Texas today, appears to have been planted by police. As predicted here last month, lawmakers move toward restricting civil liberties to combat the "hacker menace". Non-violent protests planned for April 16th meeting of World Bank and IMF. The Gray Lady picks the "best" men in the presidential primaries. The Bill of Rights originally had 12 articles. What happened to the other two? A Georgia law would give voters a choice by helping to put third parties on the ballot. When Dave Winer starts saying things I agree with, watch out for flying pigs. Governor Barnes' Education Bill would kill middle-school arts programs. When a corporation commits a crime, give it the death penalty! Vermont now leads the nation in civil rights. Well, waddaya know? It turns out guns do kill people. Zinn takes a hard look at American tendencies toward denying free speech. During the Kosovo so-called "humanitarian intervention" Army Psyops personnel "interned" at CNN. Congress is poised to amend the first amendment. Stop them! It's crappy beer anyway. Think globally, drink locally! It's a terribly sad thing that we need such a book, but since we do, I'm glad it's on the Web. Michael Moore writes "a letter to Elian". Original Monkeyfist content; get it while it's hot! The Senate stupidly does smart things. Someone in congress noticed that we're killing Iraqi children! Oh, but they're worth it; who else lacks the requisite moral sense necessary to exploit foreign workers while firing domestic ones? That takes extraordinary talent. Most people are too decent! Have a second helping of steaming hot Monkeyfist content. The National Review's Reality Distortion Field is working overtime. You heard it here first! A preponderance of political poseurs. The former Labour MP got elected despite (or perhaps because of) being booted from the party. Corporatization of the Web continues apace... A political, social, economic, and historical look at breastfeeding. The all-students-are-slackers myth is horseshit; but since the mainstream media ignores campus activism, you'd have to be on a campus regularly to even know about it. A Chomsky lecture in New Mexico proves a spur to thinking about politics and family. It's Lobby vs. Lobby in an embargo-busting battle royale! Kendall Clark analyses the National Commission on Terrorism's report to Congress. Do the Green thing over the Web. The Washington Times continues its ignoble tradition of antidemocratic propaganda. For-profit education is ruinous, and we will regret it. A great read for the beginning of African American History Month, which starts today. Gore could gain some progressive credit by doing what he just will never do: treat the protesters well. Secretary of State Albright's latest statement on Cuba is yet another episode in a long history of American imperialistic propaganda. President Clinton addresses Columbia in his native tongue: Newspeak. Al Gore is the only realistic choice for President in 2000. So say many white progressives. And yet Gore stinks from his own political muck. Cockburn and St. Clair's new book demonstrates why. A moment of joyful dissent in Austin. Continually cropping up is the claim that Bush is a nice person. He's not. Some thoughts on the malestrom of "tactical voting" arguments. A study of the Nader/Gore dispute in light of Thoreau's Civil Disobedience. A simple proposal that would simultaneously increase general citizen participation in and control over government and reduce that of the corps and professional lobbyists. Predictably, the (possibly) Losing Loyal Liberals want to blame Nader and the Greens for the (possible) Gore defeat. But is it right, correct, or prudent to do so? Bush's self-coronation speech tries to build legitimacy out of distortion. This billboard appeared in Charlotte, NC The US gets its comeuppance in the UN and points the finger of blame at Sudan. Some tangled thoughts about the Jenna Bush flap reaction. Monkeyfist hosts a Noam Chomsky archive. Bush declares the Newest World Order. What has Congress done to respond to the terrorist attacks? What can we do to oppose speech we hate? The majority pins its ideological power grab on specious equal protection claims while real disenfranchisement went on with little comment. PerDiS is a persistent distributed object store. My hands hurt. Per Bothner releases version 1.6.64 of his Kawa system (mainly a Scheme compiler for the JVM) with lots of JEmacs improvements. An online book about the nuts and bolts of writing a text editor. Remembrance Agent watches you and remembers what you do. Update to Smalltalk/X, a cool, unusual Smalltalk system with C compilation and Java integration. Updated, crossplatform, Java implemention of StarLogo, a "a programmable modeling environment for exploring the workings of decentralized systems". Advice for the contract programmer. Finally, someone finishes a port of S/JUnit--Kent Beck's unit testing framework, to Python. Per Bothner's Usenix paper detailing JEmacs. Our Author finds an Amusing Relevant Quote after writing his Last Article. Smalltalk is my 3rd favorite language I don't know well yet, behind only Common Lisp and Dylan. If you're trying to learn Squeak too, this is a good reference work. As a followup to Niel's explorations of archiving mail in databases, a few pointers to Xerox PARC publiciations. AT&T advances the state of the art of text-to-speech. A web site, with search engine, collecting details about "all the file formats you've ever heard of...and then some". Erlang, the Smalltalk of functional programming (in pleasure production), the Java thereof (for marketing). New Python alpha release due soon. Python might make programming on Win 32 bearable. Python parser generator from the smart guys at 4Thought. Should have been called "Why Python kicks Visual Basic's ass!" I told you Python was the best high-level language available today; here's the proof. Vyper is a new, functional variant of Python. Mr Artificial Intelligence likes Python. If you need to prototype CORBA apps, omniORB for Python may be your best bet. Python gets a new XML API: Pyxie. The center of the Python Universe just shifted. Catch Brazilian radio station JB FM on the web in RealAudio. The FCC strikes a blow against corporate radio stations. Salon goes a little more in-depth on the new low-power radio rules. Mary Frances Berry and others to step down. Dr. Laura spews hate over the public airwaves; it's time to tell her to shut up. Atlanta's radio Voice of the Arts is fixing to die and be born again as some Christian crap. Is it any wonder that the Senate doesn't like low power radio? Want low power FM radio? Then fight for it! Call, email or fax your Senator. We'd get a lot more stuff like this if Congress weren't trying to kill the low power FM radio legislation. The Karmapa fled Tibet last month, embarassing the Chinese and providing an opportunity for the Tibetan government in exile. If you're a local Philly bigwig, or know one, or know someone who knows one, please try to "fix" the Philly courts! A collection of photos from RNC-Philly. category theory, functional programming, ML Global warming is a serious issue. The Spanish iceballs get some mainstream media coverage. So time can go backwards? Does this mean I'll be getting my rent check back soon? Instructions on constructing an aluminum beanie to thwart government mind-control rays. Camp humor or real risk? You decide! "Oh wow, this is really good sh... ARGGGGH! MY HEART..." Contrary to some expectations, The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has not yet caused an end to all life as we know it. English soccer fans get killed in Turkey. Swiki collaborative groupware Lex Spoon's type inference engine for Smalltalk. Fetch patents from the USPTO in PDF format. Dylan is an advanced programming language that combines functional and OOP styles seamlessly. Paul Wilson's excellent online book about Scheme. Be's going free. Back in the day, Usenet was a nice place to be. SurfNotes is a browser companion for taking notes on Web sites. The 8th Annual International Python Conference is taking place this week. JPython is the 100% Java implementation of the World's Greatest Scripting Language, Python. The ineffable Frenchman strikes again! Freeman Dyson wins the Templeton Prize? Maybe it was for the Dyson Sphere? Using duotones to achieve full color reproduction. An commercial photoshop plugin for generating duotone full color reproductions. Napster is ill-suited for anything BUT trading of known, signed artists music. It provides little to subvert the stranglehold of the music/recording/media industries on creativity. Somewhat interesting article by Conrad Taylor on WYSIWYG graphic design from 1996. Stackless Python 1.0 is 3--5% faster than Python 1.5.2. Amnesty International casts serious doubt upon the NATO bombing campaign in Kosovo. Nader announces his candidacy for the Green Party nomination for POTUS. Explaining the chant. Listen to Nader's Green Party event in San Francisco Extensive election results from California available. The Nader campaign gets a boost from Kovel. Why does Nader deserve the Presidency? The Nader campaign is soliciting input on slogans for bumper stickers. If you've got one, send it to campaign@votenader.com. The Green Party candidates for President and Vice President will be speaking to gophers. And it's a pretty fair piece. The candidate talks with the Fools. United Auto Workers president Stephen Yokich breaks from tradition, declines to endorse Democratic presidential candidate. A divided Reform Party is seeking alternatives to Pat Buchanan. The man who created the ads for Jesse Ventura's victorious Minnesota gubernatorial campaign, is now talking about working for Nader. This would be big. Really big. Fighting the various forms of Black voter disenfranchisment in Florida (and elsewhere) is just Ralph Nader's kind of gig. Salon's Alicia Montgomery talks with the Green vice presidential candidate. Make a difference---vote Nader! James Lord's book, A Giacometti Portrait, provides great insight into the work of artists. Concurrent Programming in Erlang is a guide to learning Erlang. Stop all the whining and do something about the corporatization of the Web. Fallows spent six months working with the Microsoft Word development team, and lived to tell about it. Mark Guzdial engages in a bit of subversive, first-strike declaration of prior art in case of more patent madness. The concerns about Slashdot's editorial integrity are missing the point. The conference on genetically modified food may ask some tough questions. Amazon.com is patent-happy; so use Powells. A boycott is always more effective if it helps the non-icky competitor. The coming crackdown re: online, electronic civil liberties is going to happen in the UK first. How is the publicly-invented, built and maintained Internet privatized? Read it for yourself. Any guesses as to how long it takes for sites in .il to start blocking sites in .ps? Bill Gates and Dick Armey make a fine team! A reminder from the Recording Industry Association of America McAfee? He's blaming McAfee!?! When in doubt, MS plays hard ball! Reflections on distractions and other obscuring phenomena. Break 'em up! Stomp 'em down! Burn 'em out! Infomarkets: a way to sell out being helpful. Cluebot.com claims to be the dispenser of "clues" about politics and technology. But what you're just as likely to get from it is glib, first world racism. As the world is codified one schema at a time, what are the political consequences and implications for the future of the Web? Monkeyfist is dead; Long live Monkeyfist! Tell us what you think of Monkeyfist. Search the Monkey! Changes at Monkeyfist. New technology? Yeah, we got that. Monkeyfist starts a new Web site to track the World Bank/IMF protests in Washington D.C. and around the world. Through the power of a little irc bot written in Squeak by yours truly, MonkeyFist enters the age of microcontent. When news breaks, we fix it. Our new Paypal setup makes it easy to donate. Watch the election returns with Monkeyfist.com crew. We add some new mailing lists for our readers. There are lots of racist, hate-filled Yahoo! Clubs that violate their Terms of Service. Why doesn't Yahoo shut them down? Microsoft basher and presidential candidate Ralph Nader's online donation system uses M$ software. The White House Electronic Publications runs on CL-HTTP, a Common LIsp based web server.