THE WEB'S UNLIKELY HERO

What? An online campaign to elect the Unabomber to the presidency? The Unabomber Political Action Committee runs a Website that gets 500 visits a day and urges people to write in the name of suspect Theodore Kaczynski on the November ballot. "The Unabomber is the only candidate really addressing the issues, which are the destruction of wild nature and the increasing poverty and destruction of our daily lives because of the onslaught of technology," explains UNAPACK's chief organizer, Chris Korda. "This is no joke."

In some circles the techno-bashing Unabomber has become a cultural hero. Nowhere is that irony more apparent...

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