I'd love to see these people involved in the DNS. The fun potential is high. regards joe CULTURAL SABOTAGE WAGED IN CYBERSPACE Issue: Online Activism RTMark (its name derives from "registered trademark" but is pronounced "art mark") is an investment firm. But the promised returns are not money, but acts of cultural sabotage like switching voice boxes in Barbie and G.I. Joe dolls, creating Gatt.org, a look-alike Web site that lampooned the World Trade Organization, and purchasing recorded books by conservative pundits so leftist speeches can be recorded over the original material and the tapes can be put back onto sales racks in book stores. RTMark's motto is to attack without causing physical injury, and its projects sometimes go to extremes. There is the yearly Corporate Poetry Contest, for example, in which users send in actual e-mail exchanges with customer service representatives. Some entries sound like found poetry composed in business-speak. The three founders communicate mostly by email and rely on being small, mobile and intelligent. Through the Web, RTMark offers anti-corporate pranks, arguing argues that the freedom to appropriate and transform corporate products and Web sites is good for intellectual progress. [SOURCE: New York Times (D10), AUTHOR: Alissa Quart] (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/08/circuits/articles/17rtma.html) Joe Baptista The dot.GOD Registry http://www.dot.god/
