Naomi Klein : Where do we go from here?
"There is no shortage of principled, radical organizing taking place, yet it is almost completely disconnected from the major political voice of the left, the NDP. Listen to the people excluded from the Liberal mainstream and you hear ideas entirely absent from the NDP platform: the deep distrust of state powers, immigration crackdowns, police harassment, punitive welfare offices, and mismanagement of community affairs. ... By consistently failing to speak to the hunger for local control, or to the well-deserved skepticism of centralized power, the NDP has yielded the entire anti-Ottawa vote to the right. The Alliance is the party that offers Canadians outside Quebec the opportunity to "send a message to Ottawa" -- even if it is only by demanding a refund for poor service in the form of a tax cut."
Perlmonks : It's not human
"So it is with some trepidation that I admit to having registered a second name, hooked Chatbot::Eliza to ZZamboni's getchat.pl, and put perlbot in the Chatterbox for a number of hours. Since this was certainly something almost anyone here could have done, I think an explanation as to what good I thought this would accomplish is in order."
Ovidiu Predescu : XSLT-process minor mode
"Have you ever developed XML applications using XSLT? If so you probably felt the need of viewing the result of applying the XSLT processor on the XML file
using an XSLT sheet you have been working on right inside your (X)Emacs, without having to go to a terminal or to the Web browser. This minor mode allows
you to do it!"