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The Anti-Gates

No, I'm not talking about Steve Jobs, Firefox, Google, or Linux. Although three of the four should make Microsoft sweat: Firefox, a better browser than Internet Explorer with 25,000,000 downloads and increasing momentum; Google, the clear leader as information portal to the Internet; and Linux, which is eating Microsoft's lunch in the server operating system arena. I am talking about those ugly $21,000,000 "Gates" by Christo and company in Central Park, New York.

If you are anti-Gates and sick of the Christo hype (or simply a bit of a puritan and turned off by the profligate waste in a world where people die of hunger), here are some alternatives:

• The Somerville Gates (cost $3.50, pussy cat not included)


• The Crackers (a gift to the city, is it Art or for the birds, a public happening and a tasty snack at a cost of $2.50)


• Our Very Own Duplo Gates (Cost zero, because we already had the Legos, Nicky not included!)

Posted by Harold Davis at February 19, 2005 09:20 AM