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"Giving well is the best revenge."

Our modest contribution to the rich folklore of the Christmas season.

Dominion and Illusion
In which Michelle Furr asks, "If Windows XP turns out not to be the crown of creation and the Nokia cell phone cum GPS and net access not the zenith of human accomplishment, what's to become of us?"

Glenn Gould, Lang Lang, and les barricades mystèrieuses
Angus Verspeeten has been listening to a lot of piano music lately. He's excited because he thinks he's found the new Glenn Gould. If Canada was an unlikely source of such genius, what would you say about... China?

I try to tell the truth whenever I can.
         --Erastus Corning II
           11-term mayor, Albany NY.

Free Beauty
& Ryan Geiss
John Mimbres's retinas are really happy these days. With considerable restraint, he explains why, and tells you how you can make your retinas happy too.

The View from Louisiana
Nimo Calardic, our new Louisiana correspondent, checks in with a few thoughts on how the world looks from the Sabine Valley.

Shining a Light into the Darkness
Yet another free self-help service to readers of Magellan's Log: a quick and easy page to provide you with predictions about the course of this new un-millennial millennium.

Potholes of Prose
Humor Editor Jerden Purmort has been out on the Internet again, looking for human foibles. Naturally he found some.

Don't Read Me
Against our better editorial judgment we let one of our poets of his cage again and he of course immediately came up with more imagistic glop. Don't bother.

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).

In the Gloaming
Fiddling while Lower Manhattan still burns, we once again give voice and bandwidth--OK, we'll use the p-word--to poetry. Read at your own risk.

"I hate to disappoint you but that's only the hand brake."
We've been thinking about how, and why, other people laugh. Which led us to a lot of German humor sites, and a dozen cross-cultural cartoons for you to either laugh at or think about.

Actually 16 of them, comprising the last line of the sixth-century Zen text, the "Hsin Hsin Ming."

Reality Check No. 14,739.

If you heave an egg out of a Pullman car window anywhere in the United States you are likely to hit a fundamentalist.
             --H.L. Mencken (1925).

Say Again?
An entertaining list of words which, according to the liberal arts faculty members who compiled it, are as popular as they are over- and misused.

The Good Old Days

of Pre-Neo-Capitalism
A brief quote from a mid-20th century capitalist. Read it and weep.

Things Fall Apart. Again.
A brief quote from a mid-9th century non-capitalist. Read it and ponder.

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