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"Giving well is the best revenge."

The Four Tyrannies
Jerden Purmort claims to have reduced all human history to one page. See what you think.

Hedged Bets
A list of 66 corporate political donors that won't help you sleep better.

THINKABOUTIT
A true story: The principal of a middle school recently posted the names of all 900 students on cards around the walls of the gym. He gave the 100 staff members (half were teachers) a supply of gold stars. He asked each staff member to put a star on the card of a student whom they knew well enough to speak to by name if they saw them in the mall. One- fourth of the students got most of the stars. One- fourth more had one or two stars. The other half had none.

COMING SOON:
Cinematographer Tom Richmond (Stand and Deliver, A Midnight Clear, Waking the Dead, etc.) re-visits Houston and captures the city in a gallery of fly-in-amber still photos.

No IPO? No advertising? How do we do it? We sometimes wonder too. Quality tells (or so we hope). For now, check our gift shop for Magellan's Log mementos.

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The editor gets out his red pencil and grades Magellan's Log 14.

Microsoft & the Texas
Railroad Commission
Joel Fluker rummages through the dustbin of capitalist history and turns up a fascinating reminder of old, old monopolistic behavior.

Just when you thought you'd encountered every possible fetish, here comes "petrophilia" (the love of stones). This one is not weirdly sexual but quietly artistic.

Islands of Quality
We figured we'd better praise the good stuff before it vanishes altogether. While we were at it we decided to hurl a few brickbats at some of the already-vanished.

SEE THE
FUTURE
Waiting for advice? Why waste money on a 1-900 call? Our new staff psychic, Mme. Petrofina- Blavatsky, has (almost) all the answers.

HEAR YE!
HEAR YE!
Sawyer Brown totes up the gains and losses of the telecom revolution and worries about the loss of communality.

Brainteasers.
KulchurKwotient.
Tasteless Jokes.
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"Giving well is the best revenge."
Gifts for yourself, and for any of your friends who are still awake and thinking. All drawn from the sometimes boistrous, sometimes beautiful pages of Magellan's Log. Click here for more info.

Something to offend everyone? Piongo Pisgah's palette mixes race, sex, and religion. What more could you ask? (The title by the way is pronounced "chin".)

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Page Rage
Doc Cuddy takes out after the dinosaurs-- book publishers who are dragging their feet about going digital.

Is the End
at Hand?
Apocalypse when? Use our quickie checklist to find out if you are truly among the equity- challenged or if it's safe to keep voting the straight Republican ticket.

FAT-CAT STAT
Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations, not countries.

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