A lot of people have written me to tell me they enjoy the random quotes that pop up in my email signature, and I've repeatedly been asked to make them available on the Web. So here you go...
You can download the Perl script I use to generate these into my sig here.
You can download the following fortune files here:
Quotes on liberty, mostly from the Founding Fathers of the United States. Here's browseable HTML
Quotes on firearms, the Second Amendment, and the right to keep and bear arms. Here's browseable HTML
Zen comedy from Stephen Wright. Here's browseable HTML
My own aphorisms on politics, liberty, and philosophy. Here's browseable HTML
Various quotes that don't fall into any of the obvious categories above. Here's browseable HTML
I just concatenate them all into one and use it (stripping my name out of the esr file first). You may wish to be more selective.