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Regular watchers of Sesame Street may have noticed that the Muppet character Bert sometimes has certain grumpy tendencies. And consumers of Internet satire have long known about the "Bert is Evil" Web site. Linda Wertheimer explains.

Jonathan Last, online editor for The Weekly Standard, reviews the latest "Barney Cam" video -- a short Web movie that follows the adventures of President Bush's Scottish terrier dog Barney through the White House.

Their commentaries have taken on the Middle East, the Sept. 11 attacks, Enron, anthrax, global warming and, most recently, pedophilia by priests. They are the Carmelite nuns of Indianapolis, whose opinions appear on a Web site they call Pray the News. NPR's Susan Stamberg interviews two of the nuns on Morning Edition.

Slate contributor Seth Stevenson grades the latest television advertising campaign by CNN.com, the Web site for Cable News Network.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with Slate technology writer Paul Boutin about a new computer virus that attacks users when they simply visit an infected Web site.

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.