Wednesday, August 07, 2002

"In the age of market research, newspaper editors have decreed that their readers just don't care about books."

Profiles of Japanese Comic Authors and Illustrators
"A Pleasant Valley High School student's art class painting that showed him shooting a police officer ( "in the back of the head, blowing away pieces of her flesh and face" ) who had cited him for possessing marijuana did not constitute a criminal threat, a state appeals court has ruled."

Geometric Sculpture
Esoteric Topics in Computer Programming
Barefoot Gen
Forced Labor Camps: online exhibition
"The old doctrine was that nuclear weapons were far too big and nasty to use, and now they've moved towards developing nuclear weapons they can actually use"
Nuke by ZIP code
(Thanks to Joel)

PixiPort Galleries
"'So, this is the part where we kill you,' Moore says to the reporter. It takes a second for the joke to register, and everybody laughs..." --the perils of methamphetamine manufacture