http://www.bushwatch.com is keeping a close eye on George Bush, Jr. for us.

Janelle Brown does the world a favor by taking a skeptical look at the contrived phenomenon of Internet addiction for Salon.

The New York Times has an article about a syphilis outbreak among gay men who participated in a particular AOL chat room, and how the San Francisco health department and AOL got together to handle the problem without violating the privacy of the men involved.

Joe Conason asks the Presidential candidates to confront their hypocrisy when it comes to the war on drugs and their own pasts.

Computers don’t save us time or make us more productive. (I didn’t know that ATM machines didn’t save banks any money.)

GameSpot is running a story on the top 10 games that should be remade. Reading it was an interesting trip down memory lane, I played almost every game on the list back in my Commodore 64 days.

AOL is giving away Internet service in England, in order to compete with Freeserve. I wonder if US customer are trying to figure out why the Brits get Internet access for free and we don’t. Microsoft is also making a lot of noise about driving down the price of Internet access over here.

Wired News is reporting that Richard Belluzzo, who left SGI Monday is going to be the new head Internet guy at Microsoft. This is mainly interesting to me because Belluzzo was the guy who led SGI’s transition to building Windows NT workstations alongside their existing Unix products. I wonder if his departure will hasten SGI’s move toward Linux.

Are you a Perl hacker or are you the Perl hacker?

From the “We may be pimps, but at least we’re not ashamed of it” department comes the report that Network Solutions, entrusted by our government with a monopoly on domain name registrations, is going to sell advertising on the whois lookup page.