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"Giving well is the best revenge."

Mi NASA es su NASA
A little slide show with midi from the hundreds of breath-taking true-color photographs of the earth made by the recently launched Terra satellite.

Noblesse Oblige
in the Permian Basin
Token Republican Ora Shay is back with her analysis of Bush behavior in response to the rude left-wing hoodlums that make up the world press these days.

A normal person
wouldn't steal pituitaries
Come with us into strange realms where the English language has never gone before: the hilarious world of Hong Kong movie subtitles.

Ah swan! How Southern Are You Anyway?
Ceci Lumley has devised a not entirely innocent little test to see just how far south you lie in the American scheme of things.

ACORNS
Thoughts old and new for a time of corruption local and distant.

Noirer Than Thou
Reppy Duart's appreciation of the Parker novels by Donald E. Westlake (writing as Richard Stark), along with a lengthy scolding of the many less-talented offspring of Hammett and Chandler.

Confusing Entanglements
A few words to the wiser from the mountains of China 1,500 years ago (with midi).

God's Cops?
Washington correspondent Joel Fluker asks seven hard questions about the propsed astronomical increases in the defense budget.

Miserere
Heading toward the deep end, religion-wise, we offer a midi version of Allegri's haunting setting of Psalm 51 along with a little slide show that will surely offend the tolerance-challenged.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

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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 about, among other things, the funniest book of the 21st century (so far).

Hymnlet to the Night
Our wandering, long-lost metaphysician, Chardo Blue Plains, resurfaces briefly with remarks on night dwellers, of which he considers himself one. (With midi.)

Cockleburr Kin
Our editor in chief revisits West Texas, the scene of his crime childhood, in words and music. He calls it "Notes toward an autobiography."

Importation Intent
Nfubi Kwaadutu, our indefatigable N'Djamena correspondent, checks in again with news about scandal and fraud African-style, which (compared to scandal and fraud American-style) turns out to be a little bit quaint.

The Hills of Herculaneum
Kai Sonderling puts one of his paintings into the computer, manipulates it, adds a midi, and off we go on a 3-minute flight of fancy at the Bay of Naples.

Lightning: 2 Questions
Our resident geomancist has been studying NASA's lightning-strike map. Maybe he should've been playing Civilization III instead.

S.A.T. Supplementary Questions
for the Reality-challenged
Feeling unsure about how well-adjusted you are to the bumpiness of present-day culture? Find out where your problems lie with our 10-question S.A.T.-style test.

How Bigz Ur Booty?
In another cultural breakthrough, Magellan's Log offers free to the world important new methods of measurement, ranging from smarts ("The Dubya Scale of Universal Intelligence") to government ("The Rumsfeld-Rice Scale of Human Rights").

You'd really think we were some poor little republic, and that if one person lost his religion for one hour, the whole thing would crumble. America is the real religion in this country.
                 --Norman Mailer.

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