Who knew Hunter S. Thompson needed a job? He’s got a gig writing a column called Hey Rube for espn.com.

rc3.org Daily endorses for President of the United States: Ralph Nader. Nader’s positions on health care, the environment, and especially on international issues earns him my official endorsement. Unfortunately, I’m voting for Al Gore because the idea of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney having four to eight years in the White House creeps me out.

At one time, I bemoaned the fact that my current residence isn’t wired with Cat 5 ethernet cable. As wireless ethernet cards become more and more popular (and cheaper), I really don’t care. The O’Reilly Network has an article on getting your computers up and running with Lucent’s Wavelan PC cards. If I had more than one computer at home, I’d be jonesing for this setup in a big way.

Bill Clinton’s long exit interview with Esquire seems very interesting. I’ve only read the first page or two of it so far. I find Clinton to be incredibly intriguing, both for his successes and for his massive flaws. It will be interesting to see what becomes of him once he’s out of his current job.

Found at Q Daily News: a Microsoft Knowledge Base article that enables you to get rid of those stupid branding schemes that are sometimes included as part of Internet Explorer installations.

From SatireWire: Tim Berners-Lee’s favorite Web sites. I’m not sure why I found that so funny, but I did.

What the Hell is going on at MathWorld? The author of the information on the site (which I’ve used pretty often in the past) turned the site into a book published by CRC Press. For some reason, he signed a contract that assigned all of the rights to his work to the publisher (I assume that the author was very naive), and now the publisher has a court order that shut down the site. Bad on CRC Press! Bad on the author!

Popular Power is working on building a platform for distributed data crunching applications (like SETI@Home, GIMPS, or the various crypto key cracking contests). The coolest thing is that the platform will enable them to ship the data crunching code to the computers along with the data sets, so the nature of the data crunching can change dynamically. I also love the idea of letting companies run the data cruncher on internal projects to harness idle time on their employees’ personal computers.

The spate of political links continues as we near election day: Michael Moore’s open letter to Al Gore.

Articles like this one scare the crap out of me. It’s a Salon report on a town in Chile directly under the big hole in the ozone layer. People there have to wear protective clothing and sunscreen during daylight hours, and on bad days are directed not to go outside at midday. Some days I feel like we’re all totally screwed. Of course, George W. Bush doesn’t think that global warming is a problem we can do anything about, so I guess I should probably just blow it off.