Volume One, Number 3 · March 2000

Monkeyfist Outage
by Kendall Clark
Monkeyfist is dead; Long live Monkeyfist!
1 March 2000

Odell Barnes: Texas Killing an Innocent Man?
by Kendall Clark
Some of the forensic evidence used to convict Odell Barnes, scheduled to die in Texas today, appears to have been planted by police.
1 March 2000

Civil Rights and the "Hacker Menace"
by Kendall Clark
As predicted here last month, lawmakers move toward restricting civil liberties to combat the "hacker menace".
1 March 2000

Generation Sucks
by Mike Billips
New York writer laments being too old to boom, to young to X.
1 March 2000

XML Namespaces FAQ
by Kendall Clark
A comprehensive, technical FAQ on all aspects of XML namespaces.
1 March 2000

News about the film A Force More Powerful
by Niel Bornstein
The film about nonviolent social change is making the festival rounds, and will screen on public television.
1 March 2000

A16: Mobilization for Global Justice
by Kendall Clark
Non-violent protests planned for April 16th meeting of World Bank and IMF.
1 March 2000

Kawa updated; JEmacs advances
by Bijan Parsia
Per Bothner releases version 1.6.64 of his Kawa system (mainly a Scheme compiler for the JVM) with lots of JEmacs improvements.
1 March 2000

The Craft of Text Editing
by Bijan Parsia
An online book about the nuts and bolts of writing a text editor.
1 March 2000

Update: Supreme Court Protest on Monday
by Kendall Clark
A eyewitness account of what it was like on Monday, Feb 28, at the death penalty protest at the Supreme Court.
2 March 2000

The Pain Index
by Joel Skelton
I don't quite understand this weather.com page.
2 March 2000

To Spoil or Not To Spoil
by Niel Bornstein
In which the author tries to decide what to do on primary election day.
2 March 2000

Pinochet Goes Free
by Niel Bornstein
The fiend gets no justice.
2 March 2000

Talk to the Monkey
by Kendall Clark
Tell us what you think of Monkeyfist.
2 March 2000

Remembrance Agent Rocks!
by Kendall Clark
Remembrance Agent watches you and remembers what you do.
2 March 2000

We Make Shitty Standards
by Ken MacLeod
Dave Winer suggests that the W3C adopt XML-RPC as an XML distributed application protocol -- Just Say No!
2 March 2000

Breastfeeding Action
by Zoe Mulford
A breastfeeding information and advocacy site.
2 March 2000

The Politics of Breastfeeding
by Bijan Parsia
A political, social, economic, and historical look at breastfeeding.
2 March 2000

That's It, No More Pot For Me
by Niel Bornstein
"Oh wow, this is really good sh... ARGGGGH! MY HEART..."
3 March 2000

It's a Wallet, Not a Gun
by Niel Bornstein
Careful with those wallets, they might be loaded!
3 March 2000

Big Changes Afoot at Pacifica?
by Niel Bornstein
Mary Frances Berry and others to step down.
3 March 2000

Announcing the Monkeyfist Search Engine
by Niel Bornstein
Search the Monkey!
3 March 2000

The real reason Nader hates Microsoft
by Bijan Parsia
Microsoft basher and presidential candidate Ralph Nader's online donation system uses M$ software.
3 March 2000

Common Lisp in the White House
by Bijan Parsia
The White House Electronic Publications runs on CL-HTTP, a Common LIsp based web server.
3 March 2000

The Amazon Patent Paradox Plan
by Bijan Parsia
Buy more, so they lose more!
3 March 2000

Why Work?
by Michael Stutz
Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery (CLAWS) is a collective of individuals exploring a sensible alternative to society's "earning a living."
3 March 2000

New MFers
by Kendall Clark
Welcoming the new MFers.
3 March 2000

Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity
by Kendall Clark
Simone de Beauvoir was the real philosopher; Sartre was just a poseur.
4 March 2000

Submerged Landmines in Mozambique
by Niel Bornstein
Thousands of landmines have become seamines in the flood-ravaged African nation.
4 March 2000

Megginson on XML Sabotage
by Niel Bornstein
At XTech 2000, David Megginson described some vulnerabilities of XML.
4 March 2000

Civil Liberties Crackdown in the UK
by Kendall Clark
The coming crackdown re: online, electronic civil liberties is going to happen in the UK first.
5 March 2000

Python for Lisp Programmers
by Kendall Clark
Mr Artificial Intelligence likes Python.
5 March 2000

New York Times Endorses McCain, Gore
by Niel Bornstein
The Gray Lady picks the "best" men in the presidential primaries.
5 March 2000

Constitutional Trivia
by Niel Bornstein
The Bill of Rights originally had 12 articles. What happened to the other two?
5 March 2000

Peace Without Profit: How the IMF Blocks Rebuilding in Mozambique
by Kendall Clark
Massive flooding in Mozambique is only part of the problem there; IMF strangulation makes it worse.
6 March 2000

Equal Access to Georgia Ballots!
by Niel Bornstein
A Georgia law would give voters a choice by helping to put third parties on the ballot.
6 March 2000

NYPD Officers Guilty in Louima Coverup
by Niel Bornstein
They're not only criminals, they're poor sports about getting caught.
6 March 2000

Juan Gonzalez: Harvest of Empire
by Niel Bornstein
Gonzalez, co-host of Democracy Now!, has a new book.
6 March 2000

International Women's Day, March 8th
by Kendall Clark
March 8th is International Women's Day.
6 March 2000

Dept. of Energy Sponsors Solar Design Competition
by Niel Bornstein
DOE has a South-facing wall. They want it to be pretty and functional.
7 March 2000

Online Elections Are Here
by Niel Bornstein
Everyone seems to think holding elections online is a great thing. Here's why it's not.
7 March 2000

Al Gore, Corporate Welfare Environmentalist
by Kendall Clark
We can't afford Gore's kind of environmentalism.
7 March 2000

Brill's presentation
by Mike Billips
Steven Brill bores hungry press club, except when he proposes dumb ideas.
8 March 2000

Nader in San Francisco
by Kendall Clark
Listen to Nader's Green Party event in San Francisco
8 March 2000

Good news for Nader in the CA returns
by Kendall Clark
Extensive election results from California available.
8 March 2000

Watch out for the flying pigs
by Kendall Clark
When Dave Winer starts saying things I agree with, watch out for flying pigs.
9 March 2000

Israeli parliament to legalize torture?
by Kendall Clark
Is the Israeli parliament going to legalize torture in a split from the Isaraeli Supreme Court?
9 March 2000

Nader in Philly
by Kendall Clark
News of the Nader event in Philly.
9 March 2000

The Campaign is Over. In March!?!
by Niel Bornstein
In which the author ruminates on the sorry state of our electoral system.
9 March 2000

Save the Arts in Georgia!
by Niel Bornstein
Governor Barnes' Education Bill would kill middle-school arts programs.
9 March 2000

'X' marks the Smalltalk
by Bijan Parsia
Update to Smalltalk/X, a cool, unusual Smalltalk system with C compilation and Java integration.
9 March 2000

Gabrielle Palmer's The Politics of Breastfeeding
by Bijan Parsia
A political, social, economic, and historical look at breastfeeding and strong critique of the formula/medical complex by Gabrielle Palmer.
9 March 2000

Joel Kovel Withdraws from the Race
by Niel Bornstein
The Nader campaign gets a boost from Kovel.
10 March 2000

A "PG-13" version of Logo
by Bijan Parsia
Updated, crossplatform, Java implemention of StarLogo, a "a programmable modeling environment for exploring the workings of decentralized systems".
10 March 2000

Like we needed another Christian station
by Mike Billips
Atlanta's radio Voice of the Arts is fixing to die and be born again as some Christian crap.
12 March 2000

omniORB for Python
by Kendall Clark
If you need to prototype CORBA apps, omniORB for Python may be your best bet.
13 March 2000

Why Ralph Nader?
by Kendall Clark
Why does Nader deserve the Presidency?
13 March 2000

Clinton Kicks Frogs Out of Hotel
by Niel Bornstein
White House officials have rented an entire hotel in India at $1000 per room per night, booting out some French tourists who got there first.
13 March 2000

Nader on the ballot in 50 states
by Kendall Clark
Nader, speaking at University of Nevada, promises he and the Greens will be on the ballot in 50 states.
14 March 2000

ICANN's Proposal to the U.S. Government to Perform the IANA Function
by Kendall Clark
How is the publicly-invented, built and maintained Internet privatized? Read it for yourself.
14 March 2000

The Corporate Death Penalty
by Niel Bornstein
When a corporation commits a crime, give it the death penalty!
14 March 2000

Update on the Boeing Strike
by Kendall Clark
The Boeing engineer strike enters the second month, and it's starting to cost Boeing investors some serious money.
14 March 2000

I'm not the NRA, but that bubba over there is
by Mike Billips
The national press needs to keep its opinions out of gun legislation coverage.
15 March 2000

The Earth Charter
by Niel Bornstein
Earth Charter Commission members met at UNESCO headquarters in Paris from March 13-15 to review the Charter.
15 March 2000

Monkeyfist Mutations
by Kendall Clark
Changes at Monkeyfist.
15 March 2000

Pyxie: Python and XML
by Kendall Clark
Python gets a new XML API: Pyxie.
16 March 2000

Now That's Capital Punishment
by Niel Bornstein
A man was sentenced to death in Pakistan. He will be strangled in front of his victims' parents, cut into 100 pieces, and put in acid.
16 March 2000

Standing up, being counted
by Mike Billips
Enumerating thoughts about the Census
16 March 2000

Brand loyalty
by Mike Billips
Joan Crawford stuck by her brand(s).
16 March 2000

Man Hunger Strikes re: rbGH
by Kendall Clark
Do you want to feed genetically-engineered milk to your children?
17 March 2000

Rebirth Brass Band at Smith's Olde Bar Tonight
by Niel Bornstein
The second line will also be in attendance.
17 March 2000

Vermont Leads the Nation
by Kendall Clark
Vermont now leads the nation in civil rights.
17 March 2000

Government Grants Gun Maker Sweetheart Deal
by Niel Bornstein
Well, waddaya know? It turns out guns do kill people.
18 March 2000

Erin Brockovich: Film and the Gendering of Citizenship
by Kendall Clark
I loved all the movies this one reminds me of, but I'm disturbed by some of them at the same time.
18 March 2000

Have you seen this man?
by Kendall Clark
H. Rap Brown is on the run.
19 March 2000

How To Market Yourself
by Niel Bornstein
Advice for the contract programmer.
19 March 2000

Army Psyops Setting CNN Editorial Policy?
by Kendall Clark
During the Kosovo so-called "humanitarian intervention" Army Psyops personnel "interned" at CNN.
20 March 2000

Nader at UVA, Charlottesville
by Kendall Clark
Nader campaign events in Virginia.
20 March 2000

Leonard Peltier is Running for President
by Niel Bornstein
The imprisoned Native American activist is looking for a slate of electors in all 50 states.
21 March 2000

Howard Zinn on Free Speech in America
by Kendall Clark
Zinn takes a hard look at American tendencies toward denying free speech.
21 March 2000

What is a Dyson sphere?
by Kendall Clark
Freeman Dyson wins the Templeton Prize? Maybe it was for the Dyson Sphere?
22 March 2000

Buy this album now!
by Kendall Clark
Buena Vista Social Club rules.
22 March 2000

How many more? The killing of Patrick Dorismond
by Kendall Clark
The Diallo killers are acquitted and police violence spikes upward in NYC. A coincidence?
22 March 2000

IANA Approves .ps Top-Level Domain for Palestine
by Niel Bornstein
Any guesses as to how long it takes for sites in .il to start blocking sites in .ps?
23 March 2000

Art for where thou are.
by Joel Skelton
Sites with art. Lots of art. Modern and classic.
23 March 2000

The Texas Museum Scene
by Kendall Clark
The Houston art scene is one of the most vibrant in the country, supported by, and supporting, a rich museum scene as well.
23 March 2000

Senate to Vote on Flag Desecration Amendment
by Niel Bornstein
Congress is poised to amend the first amendment. Stop them!
24 March 2000

The Wobblies on the Web
by Niel Bornstein
Musing about unions.
24 March 2000

Project Censored: Tracking the News that Didn't Make the News
by Kendall Clark
Project Censored has a new Web site; find out what they haven't been telling you.
25 March 2000

Guide to the Seattle Meltdown
by Michael Stutz
What corporations think of the Seattle WTO protests.
25 March 2000

The Electrohippies' Electronic Civil Disobedience Website
by Kendall Clark
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.
27 March 2000

Personal mechanized writing devices
by Kendall Clark
I love classic manual typewriters. Why? They represent the true precursors of the personal computer and were the first serious democritazation of Gutenberg's genius.
27 March 2000

Everything you ever wanted to know about Mack the Knife
by Kendall Clark
Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear...
28 March 2000

Boston Independent Media Center
by Niel Bornstein
Another indepenent media source fighting the ravages of corporate globalism.
28 March 2000

Another Cyanide Spill
by Niel Bornstein
Another accident threatens the environment. People are part of the environment.
28 March 2000

Texas Plant Explosion Injures 71
by Kendall Clark
Explosion on Chemical Row near Houston Ship Channel.
28 March 2000

Free Software "Community" My Ass!
by Kendall Clark
You can't have a community relationship with Red Hat, Inc.
29 March 2000

Nader to Appear in Atlanta
by Niel Bornstein
The candidate will be here on the afternoon of April 17. More details to come...
29 March 2000

Emmmmm-FWHAP! Now Available
by Niel Bornstein
New technology? Yeah, we got that.
29 March 2000

Who the hell are Korten and Grossman? A Brief Profile of Anti-Corporate Activists
by Kendall Clark
Korten and Grossman are coming to Texas. Who the hell are Korten and Grossman? Read on, fair reader, read on...
29 March 2000

Free Speech? Not in America.
by Kendall Clark
Free speech in America is sometimes a sick joke.
29 March 2000

Highminded devotion to a bad cause
by Mike Billips
Shelby Foote tells, and tells about the Civil War.
29 March 2000

That Was Just Too Close
by Niel Bornstein
The flag burning amendment is barely defeated... this time.
29 March 2000

Open the Debates, Boycott Budweiser
by Niel Bornstein
It's crappy beer anyway. Think globally, drink locally!
30 March 2000

Nader Looking for Bumper Sticker Slogans
by Niel Bornstein
The Nader campaign is soliciting input on slogans for bumper stickers. If you've got one, send it to campaign@votenader.com.
30 March 2000

No one is cooler than Ibrahim Ferrer
by Kendall Clark
Ibrahim Ferrer is a treasure.
31 March 2000

Twelve Soldiers Fight The War For Freedom
by Niel Bornstein
Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech.
31 March 2000

The Torture Reporting Handbook
by Kendall Clark
It's a terribly sad thing that we need such a book, but since we do, I'm glad it's on the Web.
31 March 2000