Magellan's Log IV: Culture Counterculture Anticulture

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Chinese Eye Candy
blindsinwindow.jpg (3383 bytes) While Europe fumbled around in the Dark Ages, Chinese painters gloried in the vastness of nature. Big files, to retain at least some of the breath-taking detail. With music.

Big
If's
torch.jpg (2676 bytes) Huh? "Big If's" is a new kind of word puzzle, exclusive to Magellan's Log, developed by one of our word-crazed editors. If you're feeling in the need of a little combined right-brain / left-brain exercise, take a look.

Being
There
ostrich.jpg (3451 bytes) Far-away- place photos from readers, as proof that they are NOT addicted to the Internet. And they have the malaria shots to prove it.

Pixel
de light
mermaid.jpg (2965 bytes) What, me worry? Don Pfingston celebrates digitized realities by remembering the good old analog days. We're not in Kansas, Toto, we're in the cyber-Louvre. And it's OK.

Myra beats ~~off~~ all
wpe3.jpg (4782 bytes) A small tribute to Gore Vidal's millennial cult hero-heroine, Myra Breckinridge, who knew too well which side her buns were buttered on. Reviewers sniffed. Vidal himself disowned the movie. But Myra lives, Myra lives.

Why Kitty Hawk?
Magellan's Log heads to the Outer Banks of North Carolina to find out what drew the Wright Brothers there. Humanity takes off.

Economic secret of the ages revealed!
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Is the whole world just getting high on silicon? Is Wall Street a pied piper leading every other market toward the cliff where lemmings popularly self-destruct? Michelle Furr doesn't think so.

It's the sex, stupid!
OK, OK, back to Monica one more time. Elinor Hoefs shares her intimate reactions. . . and her moment of political/cultural enlightenment.

Our writer gets ten words at random and has to create a short story using all ten words... No. 3 in a series.

Is God a
Necrophile?
womanscolding.jpg (2664 bytes) Speaking of sex, Reppy Duart, our resident theologue, has some unusual ideas about (how to put this) the reproductive behavior of the big you-know-who. Combining words, music, and art, the piece comes off as a sort of Gesamtlkunstwerk for the Internet, sure to offend inerrantists, sure to delight agnostics. You've been warned: The Edges of Divinity.

Brainteasers IV
How's your headache? Got the extra-strength, timed-release Tylenol handy? Have some completely sappy but really relaxing Windham Hill piano noodling playing in the background? Rots of ruck.

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

Time
Machine
oldcamera.jpg (2318 bytes) Get ready to scroll through the past. Selected hi-res panoramic photos from the Library of Congress open some very wide windows on turn-of-the-century America. You're gonna use your left-right scroll buttons like crazy. With music. [April 2003: Now includes a remarkable update of one of the photos.]

For things
in common

A little picture/word puzzle where you have figure out what groups of objects have in common. Pretty straightforward, you'd think.

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How do
you spell "America"?
housepeasant.jpg (3751 bytes) "R-i-c-h"? That's one way to spell it, at least for some people. Lulu Dilworth draws on her years of experience with refugees and immigrants and comes up with a hidden, overlooked spelling that may surprise you.

Me and the NY Times
hiergoglyphics.gif (5063 bytes) Magellan's Log editor Doc Cuddy tries to explain why he still doesn't mind the weekly loss of entire Canadian forests just so he can get his daily print hit.

A touch
of autumn
What do you call a haiku with 21 syllables? On the other hand, what do you call one with 17 syllables?

Yankee
Doodle
Candy
wpe4.jpg (3724 bytes) So was it really "The American Century." Time, and the historians, will tell. Meanwhile, here's a little test to see how well you paid attention to the last tenth of the second millennium.

kklogosmall.jpg (5850 bytes) 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. 771.

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SMUT
LURE
rabbitshadowpic.jpg (3025 bytes) In yet another sure sign of the approach of the Endtime, Magellan's Log continues to purvey the absolute best in off-color jokes gathered from endless hours of searching on the Internet.

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