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Liane Hansen speaks with the actor and director Laurence Fishburne, the U.S. Goodwill Ambassador to UNICEF. Mr. Fishburne recently returned from a mission to Liberia. Information about UNICEF can be found on the worldwide web at http://www.unicef.org or by calling 1-800-FOR-KIDS (1-800-367-5437).

NPR's Larry Abramson reports that ICANN, the organization that oversees the Internet, will consider adding new domain addresses. Some health groups are asking for a dot-health address to help eliminate confusion on the web. ICANN is also expected to consider a dot-travel address and a triple X address for pornography sites.

NPR's Margot Adler reports there is a man in New York City who will condense your life story into a 60-second novel. With a few brief questions, a little light conversation, you can be immortalized on the World Wide Web through the prose of Dan Hurley.

Writer Tom Nord of Louisville, Ky., has a Web site in which he invites submissions of haiku tributes to each of the U.S. presidents. Haiku is the minimalist Japanese form of poetry that traditionally describes nature. So far he has 37 presidents covered. We hear him read from his collection.

This past week, federal prosecutors indicted Joseph Massino, the alleged boss of New York's Bonnano crime family, on charges including racketeering and murder. Host Liane Hansen speaks with journalist Jerry Capeci, writer of the "Gang Land" column in The New York Sun. Visit Jerry Capeci's web site at http://www.ganglandnews.com.

NPR's Liane Hansen interviews journalist Matthew Klam about the role of web blogs in the upcoming presidential election. Klam's article "Fear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail" is in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine.

The Federal Communications Commission has published a list of Web sites that send unsolicited e-mails to cell phone customers. Tess Vigeland of Marketplace reports.

The National Institutes of Health unveils a plan to offer a Web site giving consumers free access to published government health studies. The plan comes after pressure from patient advocacy groups and Congress.

Omar Wasow of BlackPlanet.com talks about the role that certain technologies -- like voting machines, exit polls and Web site "blogs" -- played in this year's election. Hear Wasow and NPR's Tavis Smiley.

The Library of Congress has a new source for fun science facts. NPR's Liane Hansen talks to librarian Jennifer Harbster, creator of the Everyday Mysteries Web site.