Best of the Churn: 2001-16-01

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Politics and Activism
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David Satcher Nomimation Record
http://www.senate.gov/~rpc/rva/1052/10529.htm

Protesters Mark Gulf War Anniversary
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1120000/1120510.stm

Ashcroft Nomination Fight Resources (from the Monkeyfist Morgue)
http://monkeyfist.com:8080/morgue/politics/bush-admin/ashcroft-fight/

Women's Enews
http://www.womensenews.com/

Stop Ashcroft Now
http://stopashcroftnow.org/

Union Songs
http://crixa.com/muse/unionsong/

Mattole Defense
http://www.mattoledefense.org/

Making fun of cops is a crime?
http://www.boston.com/news/daily/13/obscene.htm
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/13/2015244

MLK's "The Negro and the Constitution"
http://monkeyfist.com/articles/736

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Technology
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Openflows News
http://news.openflows.org/

RSS 1.0 Validator
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccslrd/rss_validator/1.0/

What every Perl programmer needs to know about .NET
http://www.perl.com/print/2000/12/net.html

How to write an AxKit "backing store"
http://axkit.org/docs/provider-howto.dkb

Datastructure o' the Day: treaps
http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/IRO/Summary/99abstracts/ravenben.1.html
http://www.lh.com/~oleg/ftp/Scheme/#treaps

Orchard (Open Source (MIT-like license) ISO-like groves engine)
ftp://orchard.sourceforge.net/pub/orchard/binaries/i386-libc6-rpms/

Tres-geeky Gopher (aka God's Own Preferred HypertExt Resolver) sees a
mini-resurgence, including an easily-hackable pure Python client
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=714680975

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Culture
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Online and underground
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/01/16/infiltration/print.html

Esquivel! Space Age Bachelor Pad Music
http://www.bar-none.com/bios/esquibio_space.html

Plastic
http://www.plastic.com/

Black Sheep Brewery
http://www.blacksheep.co.uk/

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Miscellany
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Pixel Self-portraiture
http://monkeyfist.com/pix/kendall-stor.gif

Caterpillar 797 Large Mining Truck
http://www.cat.com/about_cat/news/03_products_n_services/_attachment/797_update.html