*past, pesent, future>> the stepford kids: sounds from a vacuum
by viki reed

"The WB Network's "Young Americans" was the last straw. Between gagging on the likes of: "N'Sync","Backstreet Boys", "Dawson's Freaks", Brittney, Christina, Monica, Puffy, Buffy, Angel, Ally, Sabrina, Popular, "Freeks and Geeks", "Titus", "Malcolm in the Middle", and "That `70's Show"; it's all a big Party of Hives."

*copyright >> content is king—content creators are (apprarently) clowns
by ira nayman

"The press would have you believe that the worst copyright infringers on the Internet are lone hackers sitting at their computers. However, corporate owned and controlled newspapers and television news organizations are hardly disinterested parties in this story."

*reflections >> reflections on electronic consciousness
by robert delamar

"Have you seen the IBM commercial where the guy with the wearable computer shouts stock quotes (seemingly to pigeons) in St. Mark's Square in Venice? Or the Cisco commercial that muses about a utopian future where kids in Africa have Internet connectivity?"

*racism and liberty >> relax, we're all racists here,
part three: a new hope?
by jonathan schildbach

"My wife began filling out the form, while I was distracted by a conflict between my daughter and another student. Before turning the form in, my wife asked me to look it over. Under the question "What did you like best about the program?" my wife had written "Kids of different races.""

*the arts >> about art: to yasmina reza, playwrite
by max podstolski

"The more I think about Art, Yasmina, the more ambivalent I become about it. Not that I doubt its brilliance for one second, it's just my own thoughts about it that I doubt. Am I more like Serge, the fervent convert to modern art, or Marc, the critical cynical rationalist? Or do I stand revealed as an Yvan-type in my spineless equivocation?"