Week 70

03.10.03

Man, check out the zoomy prices on those sci-fi sound-effects. What an industry.

http://www.sound-ideas.com/sfse.html

Here's David Hartwell calmly explaining how the science fiction book business malfunctions. What a sensible guy.

http://www.computercrowsnest.com/sfnews2
/03_march/news0303_3.shtml

03.11.03

I perk up when I see weird, woozy efforts like this. I'll be dropping by every so often to see if they can still reach the keyboard. That white-on-black text has got me hallucinating already.

http://www.newworlddisorder.ca/

03.12.03

I suppose it had to happen. Airlines are attacking and harassing their passengers so blatantly that people are rising in revolt.

http://www.boycottdelta.org/

It's hard to beat this for brass-plated gall. The small but valuable items confiscated from passengers are getting auctioned on eBay.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=
/c/a/2003/02/28/BA64041.DTL

03.14.03

A good place to check out the increasingly weird and unnecessarily complicated world of cellphones and cellphonish gadgets. That industry is carrying "function as baroque" to peculiar extremes.

http://www.4cellular.com

Bruce Sterling writes books like Darwin watched animals. Find out more about him, and read tattered electronic copies of Cheap Truth, at the Bruce Sterling Online Index. He lives with his wife Nancy and their two daughters in Austin, Texas.