Week 76
04.21.03
Here's that Andre Breton sales catalog I was mentioning earlier.
http://breton.calmelscohen.com/ index.cfm?fuseaction=catalogues.main
04.22.03
The streets slop over with the tragic unmet needs
of "Everquest widows."
http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/ 0,24195,3372376,00.html
It's just plain *cooler* in there than it is out here.
http://www.igda.org/columns/clash/
04.23.03
Human beings have evolved an urge to beat up mean guys, just on principle. So what if that act of altruism "does you no good" in game theory? Beating up mean guys gives you a deep, warm, inner glow.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/ abstract/100/6/3531?etoc
04.24.03
Saddam Hussein was way into Frazetta-style fantasy art.
This British art critic goes frothingly ape about how this
is stone proof of Saddam's mental illness.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/ 0,2763,937087,00.html
Maybe someone should mail Mr Jones an actual Frazetta book
sometime.
http://www.frankfrazetta.com/ff/index.html
04.25.03
In France, when you steal zillions from an oil company,
you can always claim it was the result of your mad, mad passion
for a woman named Fatima.
http://www.transparency.org/cgi-bin/ dcn-read.pl?citID=52493
It consoles me somewhat that Fatima's victim, the weirdly-named "Loik Le Floch-Prigent," is such a good-looking guy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2862257.stm
If it weren't for the French spooks at ELF, we would likely have
never have heard of "Omar Bongo." Okay, maybe most of
us have never heard of Omar Bongo, but Omar Bongo has an even
cooler name than the former Mrs. Fatima Le Floch-Prigent.
http://www.iht.com/IHT/DIPLO/96/jf121496.html
Bruce Sterling writes books like Darwin watched animals. Find out more about him,
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He lives with his wife Nancy and their two daughters in Austin, Texas.
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