Worst Ad Spend Decline Since Great Depression. Advertising Age Nov 6 2001 9:10PM ET [Advertising industry news]

Create-a-Fart. "Congratulations, you have created A Long, Swampy Wet Fart that was Barely Noticable. You can email your fart to a friend, or make a new fart. " Doesn't get any better than this. [MetaFilter]

Microsoft Suit Splits in Two. Half the 18 states that sued Microsoft have agreed with the Justice Department to settle the landmark monopoly case, leaving a judge to decide how to resolve the antitrust charges against the American software giant. [AP Tech News]

Weblogs.com Turns the Corner. LLRX.com Nov 6 2001 1:11PM ET [XML and metadata news]

The Book of Zope. The Book of Zope, from No Starch Press has arrived. Lots to read. I really like the layout. And they even cover working with out-of-the-ordinary tools like Radio UserLand. Published together with the Linux Journal Press - they'll publish books on Zope but not magazine articles. What's up with that? Anyway, another very nice Zope book. [ZopeNewbies]

Tech stocks creep up after Fed's rate cut. The Federal Reserve approves the 10th interest-rate cut this year, spurring investors to buy. [CNET News.com]

Microsoft objections grow. Six states won't accept antitrust deal. [USA Today : Front Page]

Sun Announces Java Virtual Machine For Windows XP. Sun Microsystems Monday announced the availability of the Java Virtual Machine JVM for Windows XP, a free download that will be essential for running Java applications on Windows XP. [TechWeb]