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"Giving well is the best revenge."

The New Frankenstein
Our token metaphysician, Piongo Pisgah, looks back at Mary Shelley's creature 200 years ago and then looks forward at digital us. He likes what he sees. It's what he can't see that's got him worried.

The task facing us: to remember that we have forgotten to remember, and then to keep on remembering. Everything else is, at best, filigree.

QUOTE
me this.
A little mind food, with some pictures, and music by Josquin Desprez.

2001 & The Murk Ahead
Our staff psychic, Mme. Anna- Magadalena Petrofina- Blavatsky, after an absence of too many months, has re-established contact with us, and with her obstreperous spirit guides. Click here for her latest news from the future.

Fat-cat Stat
"I go to Bloomingdate's to the fourth floor. I go there for two hours and I buy 2,000 of the black, 2,000 of the beige, 2,000 of the white. And I ship them around between the homes and the boat and that's the end of it for maybe half a year when I have to do it all over again."
    --Ivana Trump, to a New York Times writer
      on how she shops for brassieres.

Thought- provoker
A strange little statistic to maybe help you think outside the box.

SMART EARS?
How smart are your ears? We've rigged up a little "Name That Tune" game using midi files. Start with 2 notes, and See how fast you can identify 7 evergreens, adding one note at a time.

Kulchur Kwotient No. 790.
Brainteaser 24.
ESL Fun: Missing Words.
Tasteless Jokes 24
Roll of the Dice. Click here to be whisked to a random page in the archives.

Since all culture is based on the mistaken inference of duality, the only truly subversive activity is that which promotes awareness of the paradoxical reality of unity.

Magellan's Log Books & CDs
"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 about, among other things, the funniest book of the 21st century (so far).

Wei Wu Wei:
Ancient Paradox
Mocks Docs
Now we find out that Ceci Lumley spends a lot of her time poring over translations of one of the most-translated works in the world, the Tao Te Ching. Here, she reports in with a fascinating piece comparing how 20 different translators coped with one three-word sentence from Lao-Tze.

We know we have much to un-learn, but we don't know how to un-kearn it, so we go around pretending we have nothing to un-learn.

The Idea Man
One thing you can say about the Magellan's Log staff: they think. Wrongheadedly, at times, for sure. But starting with Issue No. 1, the ideas just keep on coming. On "The Idea Man" page we've tried to keep track of some of their wilder brainstorms.

We asked various people (both staff and readers) to choose a single image to represent the 20th century. This is what happened.

The world has a way of humanizing us. At present, about six billion ways.

Few would deny that the old 20th century had a few problems. Reppy Toppenish has come up with a solution to ALL of those problems that is brilliant in its simplicity.

Children: Facts, Stats, and the Future

Thought-provoking notes from a lecture by Peter Benson concerning the present status of children in America. Fascinating & disturbing stuff.

American Contributions
to World Culture
No. 12, 596 in a Continuing Series.

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