June, 1999 

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"Giving well is the best revenge."
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M.A.T.* is at hand!
So you think you know your millennium. One hundred daunting questions about our wacky era. Whompff!
        *Millennium Aptitude Test.

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.

Anchor aweigh
Memories of home, with humor, with nostalgia, with admiration, with regret. And a soupçon of intensely wacky anguish that comes out as barbed-wire-coated irony. Texas A to Z

Beyond McLuhan
A list of dog-eared copies of books found in the head, with all-too brief critiques transcribed from the walls of the same facility. Head Reading:

Archives of ancient,  depraved mariners
Be warned: the hold is a dank, briney, badly lit storage area not without danger to those blest with little sense of irony. The Hold.

Helm
Quotes
Brief navigational suggestions from the ends (and middles) of the earth. Wheel Words

Reading for a slow 747 to China
Sylvia Sikeston casts an unsparing critical eye on the cottage industry of who-dun-its. Mystery Writers

200-year-old suicide speaks to 21st century
Before killing himself by the Wannsee in Berlin in 1810, Heinrich von Kleist wrote a few plays, novellas, etc. His provocative little essay on marionettes fell on deaf ears when originally published. And now? Marionette Theater

Big If's
A little word play to retain your sanity between the Galapagos and Sumatra, or between Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich. Or between George W. and God knows what. Word Puzzles

Roll of the Dice. Click here to be whisked to a random page in the archives.

Daily Quotation. Words to more or less live by.

Long-lost Chinese text re-surfaces
Tree Talks, one of the legendary works of Chinese philosophy, and long-known only by a few scattered fragments, has just appeared in a new translation based on the complete text recently found by archeologists in Guangdong Province. Tree Talks.

Love
conquers
all
The old songs, especially Christian ones, are the best songs. Mix in a little Renaissance (or other) art and you get...That Old Time Religion

1820s
Hot Hits
Got a hankering for the early 19th century? Well, who doesn't now and then. Check out what Byron, Shelley, Keats, et al. would've had on their mp3 players if they'd had mp3players. Schubert's Golden Oldies

Stall wall words
What you read is what you get. The question is: does context matter? Head Graffiti

Koi paraga?*
Chardo Blue Plains, staff spiritual advisor, has found some affirmative, strengthening, relaxing, focusing words from a variety of sources, East and West. Lenses for Your Telescope
*"Anyone for the other shore?"

Who did what?
A new feature: Self-told tales from the crew, revealing just how they wound up here, mere pixellated presences on a web that to 99% of the world doesn't exist. Magellan's Lives

Sensitive Sailors Complain
Remarkable what people can come up with to gripe about. Pascal was right: The troubles of the worlds arise from the fact that a person cannot sit contentedly alone in a room for an hour. Gob Gripes

No. 2 in a series...

Synchronicity,
Shmynchronicity...
Sheep's entrails being unavailable at sea, we rely on a few stale fortune cookies picked up on our last visit to Fu Kim Restaurant (this is not a joke.). Fortune Cookies

Don't tread
on me!
Ceci Lumley, longtime resident of Sausalito ("3,000 miles is about the right distance for a proper perspective on the East Coast," she says), wants to revise the old "e pluribus unum" and change it to... Well, let her tell you what and why. Mutinous Musings

Sounds for tired ears
A list of music--classical, pop, rock, country--to ease the view on long, long trips. Good Music

Overlooking
the obvious
SH: Unburied treasure lies out in the open,  litters the landscape, awaits the greedy. Forgotten Treasure

ESL by any
other name
Jerden Purmort, humorist, spent some years teaching ESL and shares exercises with us, often as challenging to native speakers as to newcomers to the language. The Queen's English

Crew picks
favorite pix
Once a month, the Captain has one crew member choose his or her favorite artist and posts a sampling here. This month the artist is Thomas Cole, picked by Science & Technology editor Rean Thyne (go figure). With music. Captain's Corner

Think you're pretty hip, huh? Culture ain't what it used to be and covers a lot more territory now. Match culture wits with our quiz master and his newest set of questions. No. 769.

Wanderers'
Word Sources
CUL: What do explorers read while becalmed in The Sargasso Sea? Check out Magellan's own links. Reader's Delight

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