Those clever bigots in Missouri are trying to drum up publicity through public service. The KKK is trying to adopt a highway for cleanup, and sponsor All Things Considered on the local public radio station. I can certainly sympathize with those who don’t want to allow the KKK to publicize itself in this way, but it is an interesting free speech issue. Would the KKK members wear their costumes to clean the freeway?

From the, “isn’t this old news” department comes Andrew Leonard’s article that discusses the replacement of Apple with free software at the vanguard of the computer revolution. It also discusses Apple’s open source future, and where the paths of free software and Apple converge.

For those of you keeping score at home, here’s the tally in the 1999 Presidential race for dollars.

Guess who the Google search engine thinks is more evil than Satan? Number 3 in the list is a nice touch too.

Compulsive gamblers will be delighted to hear that there are all sorts of betting lines open on potential Y2K disasters.

Simson Garfinkel has written an article for Salon breaking down the differences between DSL and cable modems. For what it’s worth, I’d take either of them over the 56k modem I have right now.

The MIG-21 that’s being auctioned on eBay is kind of an old model, but the price is right.

TheStreet.com’s James Cramer has finally come clean and admitted that investing in Internet companies is a joke. Cramer’s article lists the top 10 myths surrounding Internet business, and make some important points.

I hate JavaScript. It’s the bane of my existence. Mainly, I hate it because it’s implemented differently in every browser, and debugging the scripts is absolute torture. What makes it worse is that many people don’t follow the most basic best practices that have been established over time. To help eliminate this problem, I will link to the article <a href=http://www.webcoder.com/howto/article.html?number=14,length=4,demo=0,source=0″>Object detection, not browser detection. If you program in JavaScript, read it.

Innogear has created an MP3 player for the expansion slot on the Visor (the Palm clone from Handspring).