Fall: The cover for the Fall 2000 issue went in a different direction, in light of events that had just transpired at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia which had our own layout artist arrested while walking down the street talking on a cell phone.
He had been targeted as an organizer of unrest, when in actuality he was talking to one of us on his phone at the time. The idea for the cover came out of all that.
We had him pose in handcuffs while holding a cell phone. The "phone number" on the cell phone (3479379686) appeared to be a number in the new 347 area code, which had been established for parts of New York City.
However, as some astute readers discovered, this wasn't a phone number at all, but the 32-bit representation of our website's IP address (207.99.30.230). So typing that number into a browser would bring someone to our website.
The time on the phone (8:02) represented August 2nd, the day all of this went down.
The VOTENADER tattoo was added in later as a comment on the political atmosphere of the time, and how a third-party candidate was actually making a difference. And the shirt is a genuine H2K staff shirt.
