it must be Jelly...

Oldest spider silk found

Women with Umbrellas

Futurama is history (my favorite recent line: Bender announces he's going to get some ice cream, and as he leaves Fry yells "The spoon is in the foot powder!")

nice review of new Lester Bangs by Richard Hell

Stop Canadian Change

"The writing forms also appear to be doomed by their link to their most frequent users - aristocrats."

Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black

Which B-Movie Badass Are You? - I was Ash, of course...

Jobs for all!!

Max und Moritz

josh blog: "The small deviations from regularity in house music, like a few extra hi hat hits every eight measures, even when they occur as part of a larger regularity, can sometimes become especially surprising - charged - just because there are always other regularities (ultimately always the kick drum, regardless of what else changes) to fix on. And once I do fix on them, and I become locked in somehow, eventually I hear one of the (regular) deviations - which can be so small - as enormous."

Inner Gowanus

very fine review of Fatal Error by Thomas Munch-Petersen: " Another factor at play is that while society generally claims to value the preservation of life above almost all else this is clearly not true. For the greater good of being able to drive cars as one pleases society is willing to sacrifice a huge percentage of its own. The comparisons to homicide are illuminating. Murder, it is generally agreed, is a very bad thing. There's little debate about that, and punishments are appropriately severe for those who commit this act (whether for deterrent effect or otherwise). But murder is the cause of far, far fewer deaths than motor vehicle 'accidents' (the majority of which are far from true accidents, involving considerable driver contribution -- whether through drink or carelessness or other actions). So clearly it's not life that's valued above all else -- and not even the right to avoid having your life taken by another (since that's usually what happens in motor vehicle 'accidents'). "

Death Valley '74

Jordan: deep sifting the Wall Street Journal and then a good question--: "Text of a Wachovia Securities ad in the WSJ today: 'What can Abstract Art teach us about Raising Capital? It takes a creative approach along with traditional execution to achieve execution.' Then the American Capital logo, 'An Uncommon Partnership Since 1998,' and a series of pasted-up squares with dollar amounts in the tens or hundreds of millions, captioned 'Co-Lead Manager,' 'Sole Manager,' 'Sole Placement Agent,' etc.

What can Contemporary Poetry teach us about Raising Capital? Discuss."

Saskatchewan NDP caves over "Shrub" memo

MISCREAT >> IAN O'BRIEN INTERVIEW: 'Gigantic Days'

A New Form of Life: 'extremophiles'

Micrographia