This fund contains projects that have to do with the Internet, the World Wide Web, and computer technology in general. Its cutting-edge nature makes this a dynamic fund and maintains its high rate of turnover. The Net Fund is managed by Thing.net, a preeminent activist service provider, and Rhizome, a prominent group of Internet analysts and educators.

VIEW	FUNDS	US$	NEED	DESCRIPTION
View WRAP list	net	0	workers funds	"Grab Microsoft and AOL promotional CD's, bring them home and burn new ones, chock full of viruses, bugs, flaws; then put them back, shrink wrapped and ready to go. 'Hello, Microsoft? I just installed this XP promo and every time I boot up it invokes the name of Satan.'"
View ACT2 list	media net comm	0	workers funds	"Develop and release an open-source, p2p code base that would provide 'next-generation' multi-language security, user-authentication, and distributed file serving for the Indymedia network and its allies."
View ICAN list	net quick		workers	"Help defeat the corporate stranglehold on the 'root zone' of the Internet by switching your Domain Name Service over from Network Solutions or other corporate giants to independent namespaces. More info here."
View SPMG list	net	0	workers funds	"Purchase e-mail lists and subscribe to bulk-mailing services (usually about $150). Use these lists to send messages informing recipients where their addresses were bought, how the messages were sent, and urging them to complain. Provide real contact for the companies that you want to receive complaints, as well as legislators' contact info and other anti-spam resources."
View VSKT list	net	0	workers funds	"Make a 'data arsenal' website containing zipped computer viruses which the visitor can download and distribute by e-mail."
View CYBG list	net comm	US$1000	workers funds	"Create and distribute a number of head-mounted computer devices similar to those used by the 'cyborgs' at the MIT Media Lab, that would track those cyborgs and report, via retinal monitor, on the MIT cyborgs' whereabouts and online activities."
View VIRU list	net		workers	"Write a dummy 'virus' using code from several frequently downloaded products of some unpopular company. Get antivirus people to take the bait, so that subsequent versions of their software will make computers 'allergic' to such products."
View DOMA list	net quick	0	workers funds	"Hoard anti-corporate domains, and donate them to activist groups."
View FREE list	net	0	workers funds	"Start a free interactive database where people can post anything from how to fix a guitar to recipes and subversion with the aim of spreading useful information in a non-copyrightable format."
View CEXP list	enviro net	0	workers funds	"To call attention to the planned obsolescence of various computer products, place 'best before' dates on various components, either by silkscreening (would have to be done within the factory) or with stickers placed on retail boxes."
View MAGE list	bio net corp	0	workers funds	"Create an online fantasy role-playing game in which a corporation begins invading all aspects of the world like a virus invading a body; players must work together to defeat this menace."
View CCAT list	media net labor	0	workers funds	"Use and develop this software that turns the Cuecat, the freely available barcode scanner meant to aid shopping from home and to keep messy information away from 'consumers', into a tool for learning about corporate behavior."
View ASHC list	edu war net	0	workers funds	"Set up a website, JohnAshcroftsBirthday.com (or something like that) that proposes and organizes anti-Ashcroft games people can play on John Ashcroft's Birthday, May 9 (à la anti-Etoys games).
View NAME list	net	0	workers funds	"If you buy things or simply request information from many web sites, they will put your name on a list and sell it to other e-commerce interests without your knowledge. Set up a website that tracks the sale of personal email accounts by submitting unique email addresses to suspect sites. When you receive unsolicited mail from 3rd parties with the unique address, you will know who originally sold the name. Heavily publicize your findings on your site and in the media."
View BILL list	net	0	workers funds	"Launch a website dedicated to making fun in an entertaining way of a seemingly omnipotent corporate figure (Bill Gates?). Get the figure angry enough to sue, generating massive media coverage. (See Virtual Bill Clinton for an example, at http://www.protocomix.com/)."
View CKSC list	media net	0	workers funds	"The Internet Cookie-Scrambler will be a mesh of proxies that cross-refer requests for banners so that information passed through to this information gathering firms is just scrambled. The principle is by having many users using such a mesh these companies will get a lot of incorrect data into their databases, which has the effect of actually devaluating their product."
View SPAM list	net	US$100	workers funds	"Write a computer program that enables any recipient of junk e-mail to cripple the program or server that sent it. The program must be widely distributed, and its efficacy must be proven and touted by the media."
View SCHD list	net	0	workers funds	for "a worker at a very high-profile web site who substitutes shocking graphics or texts for standard advertisements or other features (they must remain in place long enough for thousands of visitors to see them)."
View PTTC list	net	US$5000	funds	"How many people have been displaced from their reasonably priced rentals in the speculative market of dot com San Francisco alone since the going baud rate was 14,400? If 14,400 people who once lost their rentals to gentrification--through evictions, owner move-ins, renovations, condo-izing, etc.--each put in $50, we could save one single house, and remove it from the speculative market. If you have ever been evicted by gentrification, you can participate in this futile attempt to save 633-637 Haight from the Yuppies. Pledge $50 of your hard-earned money; if 14,399 others do it as well, the asking price of the house will be met and the residents will not have to move down in life! Send your pledge (not the money, just the pledge) of $1 to $50 to slewison@hotmail.com. Over 1000 pledges have been received so far! If 14,400 pledges are collected, you will be asked to send in the money, and a legal structure will be set up for your protection; the house will become a community center for the last of San Francisco's non-market-driven people."
View OBIT list	media war net	US$400	workers funds	"Hack the NY Times World Trade Center victims obituaries page and add the names of the innocent Iraqis and Afghanis who have been slaughtered by US bombing. Iraqi and Afghan obits must be real, i.e. photos and descriptions of actual bombing victims."
View XIOM list	net comm	0	workers funds	"Raise awareness of widespread data-warehousing in the digital economy by crippling Acxiom, one of the top data-warehousing corporations in the U.S., which stores and sells data on almost every household in the US. Begin by purchasing a large list of demographically and geographically targeted individuals from Acxiom (for about US$0.08 per individual). Next, send each person on the list a copy of his or her Acxiom file. Then, using the personal details purchased through Acxiom, remove each listed individual from the system through Acxiom's own 'opt-out' program."
View ORBL list	net	0	workers funds	"Develop www.orable.com."
View NETF list	france net corp	0	workers funds	"In France at the beginning of March, every year, there is a 'Fête de l'Internet', a kind of internet festival, heavily funded by the French Ministry of Culture and serving only to promote big computer companies. (The Ministry of Culture does not, however, support internet artists.) Create a mediatic event to underline the strictly commercial nature of this net stupidity."
View BUML list	net		workers	"Fight back against bulk mailers by using this software to automatically hit the first 25 links at this locus of bulk mailer distribution." (Note: RTMark has not tested this software for functionality or safety.)
View BANN list	net quick	0	workers funds	"Create hilarious or stupid/offensive ad-banners for corporate websites. Try to place them in link-exchange or likewise. ('I've never gotten fucked like in the new Audi TT!') One strategy might be to first create some nice average homepage banner and after a while change the motif and the destination."
View KWKE list	net	0	funds	"In a personal effort to take the message of drug policy reform public in America I have created the U.S. Congress Quick Email Directory. It is listed on search engines for quick email access to the U.S. Congress. The visitors that it snags are average folks looking to contact their representatives for personal, political or social reasons, but while they are there exposes them to drug liberalization propaganda."
View SMCP list	bio net	US$2000	workers funds	"Create a sophisticated, popular computer game that uses Artificial Life technology to genetically engineer corporations, showing how they evolve and compete with one another and with other biological entities, e.g. people. Game must be very entertaining and be widely distributed. Project is in the beginning stages of development; A-Life programmers (Java or C++) are currently needed." (Principal investors to date: Creative Time of New York, MECAD of Barcelona, Lion Goodman.)
View DCSS list	net	0	workers funds	"Given the recent court decision on the 2600.com posting of the DeCSS program which stated that computer code is not a protected form of speech, get caught pirating software from a major manufacturer (Microsoft, for example) and argue that software, not a protected form of speech, is not subject to ANY copyright protection."
View AOLA list	net	0	workers funds	"Save up all those pesky soon-to-be-in-your-local-landfill AOL disks that come streaming endlessly to your mailbox. Get a large group of people to do the same thing. Send them all back at the same time. (A website has taken this project global.)"
View DUHH list	net	0	workers funds	"Write a piece of software that performs a useful task. The software should be registered over the internet. Shinkwrap the software with a 'by breaking this seal you accept the terms of the software license.' The software license will have provisions for access to information on the corporate database. After registration, request the information from the corporation under the terms of the software license. Sue them for non-compliance when they refuse."