* * * "The Net is a more friendly host to personal and academic projects, to zines and communities that don't require staffs of 200, to informational Web sites and the simply zany. These corners of the Web not only flourish but ultimately offer more depth and originality than an online garden tool portal. " *** Janelle Brown *** Salon Magazine ***

"It's a good time for everyone to get together and realize that the people that have been in it for years are still there. It's back to 1996 again -- all the alternative sites, and one-man shops, and consistently excellent ones. It's like we went back to the roots, which I welcome. Last year was exhausting.... It's like a big collaborative art project in some ways.... There were over 100 art, activism, education, community, humor, personal and just plain weird Web sites [out of year 2000 nominees] that apparently sat out last year's storm without getting the slightest bit damp.... Last year people would say to us, 'Why don't you judge based on stock prices or traffic reports?' That's not a barometer for excellence. And this year all the companies that people were judging by that criterion are gone.... " -- Tiffany Shlain, founder of the Webby Awards, quoted in "The Party Continues, But Only The Cool Survive" by Janelle Brown

" 'It's all a matter of perspective,' said the phoenix to her discarded ashes" -- quoted in Cosmic Telegram

"I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death. I hear him leading his horse out of the stall; I hear the clatter on the barn-floor. He is in haste; he has business in Cuba, business in the Balkans, many calls to make this morning. But I will not hold the bridle while he clinches the girth. And he may mount by himself: I will not give him a leg up. Though he flick my shoulders with his whip, I will not tell him which way the fox ran. With his hoof on my breast, I will not tell him where the black boy hides in the swamp. I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll. I will not tell him the whereabouts of my friends nor of my enemies either. Though he promise me much, I will not map him the route to any man's door. Am I a spy in the land of the living, that I should deliver men to Death? Brother, the password and the plans of our city are safe with me; never through me Shall you be overcome." -- Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Conscieentious Objector" (quoted in Znet) Por todos nuestros muertos, ni un minuto de silencio. Toda una vida de lucha.

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