This month we have gone all retro. August's choice for the wise connoisseur of on-line science fiction and fantasy is this-here official site dedicated to the 1960s cartoon hero Speed Racer.

In their own hammy words:

Speed Racer is a smart, courageous, resourceful teenage race car driver with the fastest, most futuristic car in the world, the fabulous Mach 5.

Speed's ambition is to be the greatest race car driver in the world.

And he plans on becoming Number One through fair play.

Honest to a fault, Speed would never cheat to reach his goal.

Here's what we think:

Go Speed Racer, fly like the wind through the reaches of cyberspace, travel unencumbered by the dynamics of airflow or the cold grey tarmac, fly through the digital ether, child of Gibson and Sterling, as straight as an arrow and as fast as an AOL Chat message.

Now who says poetry is dead in cyberspace?

Check our cartoon chum out at .. http://www.speedracer.com