What's Was New
in Magellan's Log:
Issues 1 to 20

Publications, in reverse chronological order
(the top item is the most recent).
This page includes only Issues 1 to 20.

For Issues 21-40 (2000-2001), click here.
For Issues 41 to 60 (2001-2002), click here.
For Issues 61 to 80 (2003-2004), click here.
For Issues 81 to 100 (2004-2006), click here.
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For Issues 121 to Present (2008), click here.


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Magellan's Log Issue No. 20
***Beauty Break. Escape from all these words. 7 pictures with music.
Ten Words No. 15: Shade. A short story by Maurice Fitznuggly.
The World's Dirtiest Picture. Cassandra.
Magellan's Log Gift Shop opened.
The editor grades Magellan's Log 20.
Ten Words No. 14: Milles Boners. A fictitious memo by Doc Cuddy.
Ten Words No. 13: Treehuggers at 10. A short story by Diebold Essen.
[Heat Break. The staff is on vacation for two weeks.] -25 to
Ten Words No. 12: Sleepy Lobster. A short story by Douglas Milburn.
Ten Words No. 11: Hover Craft. A short story by J.M. Pyka.
Ten Words No. 10: Dragstrip Porsche. A short story by Angus Verspeeten.
Ten Words No. 9: My Career in Art. A short story by Jerden Purmort.
Ten Word No. 8: Dangers of the Orgasm. A short story by Temple Duciel.
Ten Words No. 7: Flagler's Last Day. A short story by Sylvia Sikeston.
Ten Words No. 6: The Calhoun Cure. A short story by Rean Rhyne.
Ten Words No. 5: White Elephant. A short story by Robert Odom.
SETI@Home. Douglas Huang. Latest, updated statistics.
Ten Words No. 4. Petrov the Good. A short story by Ceci Lumley.
Ten Words No. 3. A short story by Michelle Furr.
Ten Words No. 2: The Initiator. A short story by Pedkop Bambera.
What. Me Worry? A graph of the size of the Arctic ice pack over the last 20 years.
Fun Stuff for Magellan's Log 20.

Magellan's Log 19
Log Log for Magellan's Log 19.
Ten Words No. 1: A Church in Montenegro. A short story by Sawyer Brown. 
Are You an Internet Sex Addict? Joel Fluker.
Tehuacana. A Novel. New hypertext, multimedia online edition.
Gustaw Herling. Piongo Pisgah. Remembering a whole century's pain.
Howz Ur FQ? Ceci Lumley. Check the condition of your Fetish Quotient.
Bodies. Nine unusual photos for the epidermally inclined.
Naked Jesus. Maurice Fitznuggly. Our art critic sets out to shock you.
Words & Numbers. A 20-pack of number problems makes one long word puzzle.
***Saltlick. New Chapter.
Absolute Quarantine. Denise Hawkins. UFO visitors find hope in human violence.
The Great Fallacy. Harriet Lobdell. Why both toys and ideas leave us with empty hearts.
***Novalis. Douglas Milburn. New translations of old ideas.
Thought Unbound: Reality Addiction. Chardo Blue Plains.
***Tree Talks. Huang Xiao-Yi. Re-design.
The Editor Grades Magellan's Log 17.
Johnny Got What? Elinor Hoef reminds us of Dalton Trumbo's shocking war novel.

Magellan's Log 18
Englewood Entropy: The World's Shortest Novel. Anonymous.

Magellan's Log 17
***Richard Dadd: The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke. Joey Ancaster.
Random Pages. Test your synchronicity.
Map and list of Caravaggio paintings in the United States.
Caravaggio. Diebold Essen on Peter Robb's M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio.
Wrong Notes & Imperfect Pitch. Sylvia Sikeston. The sense and nonsense of "reality."
C/CC/AC. Doc Cuddy. Why "culture, counterculture, and anticulture" in our title.
Offensive Material. Puns to make you wish you hadn't gotten up today.
Toys R Not Us. Cassandra. Our curmudgeonly prophet on why PDA's are bad for you.
Brer Bill & the Briarpatch. Doc Cuddy. Why Redmond is whining so loudly.
***Pasquinade. Louis Marie Gottschalk. A four-minute piano delight.
***The Marionette Theater. Heinrich von Kleist. A 200-year-old Berlin conversation.
Asian Stereotypes. Public-domain humor from the newsgroups.
***Beauty Spot: Adam's Peak (Sri Lanka), plus music by Corelli.
The Age of Hideology. Reppy Toppenish. Anti-ideology to the nth degree.
The Red Dot Mystery. In The Chiliastic Hideon.
***Treemonisha. Scott McComb. Scott Joplin's long-overlooked masterpiece.
***The Blue Book: Notes on the Ends of Millennia. Temple Duciel.
Magellan's Log 1. Major re-design of opening page.
P.I.S.P.A. Jerden Purmort. The 7 types of men, phallicly speaking.
Fun Stuff for Magellan's Log 17.
Second Nature. Piongo Pisgah. Grasping after the meaning of the Internet.
In.at.ten.tive.ness. Maurice Fitznuggly. The dangers of living at digital speeds.

Magellan's Log 16
Tattoos. Skin art slide show, with music.
Anderson Valley Advertiser. We find a great newspaper in Northern California.
Craft Counts. Diebold Essen on the fundament of esthetics, past and future.
Winstat. Rean Rhyne. Our statistical tribute to Microsoft innovation.
Serious. Photos of Houston by the well-known cinematographer, Tom Richmond.
Snob Test. Robert Lonke. Rate your own scramble for status.
Cardiac Famine. Elinor Hoefs. Nutritional problems in the new millennium.
Galactic Grade Report. John Mimbres. Report card for a small planet.
Saltlick. Douglas Milburn. New stuff added.
***Sacred Objects. Harriet Lobdell. A brief tribute to small, ancient tools.
Book Index. List of all contemporary writers and books discussed in Magellan's Log.
Fun Stuff for Magellan's Log 16.
***Don't Read This Book! Sawyer Brown on Bill McKibben's Age of Missing Information.
The Age of Emesis: 1900-2000. Diebold Essen. The old century finally gets a name.

Magellan's Log 15
Vernal Verbiage. Cassandra, our own prophet, laments the flood of words.
Log Log 15. The editor grades the latest issue.
Interstate Highways: We Rate 'Em.
S.U.V. Driving Test. Pedkop Bumbera.
MAGISTERIAL. Doc Cuddy's sermonette on the power of words in the Age of Glib.
The Grand Tour, 2000-style. Nicholas Momurray. Europe in one month.
***Beauty by the Dozen. Our first year's most beautiful graphics.
Pro Bons Mots. Elinor Hoefs. Social first aid for the prematurely wealthy.
Good Geek! The best computer radio show in the world.
M.A.D. (Millennial Affective Disorder). Robert L. Tufford. A little diagnostic test.
***The Ox-herding Pictures. A bit of Zen art to whittle away the hours.
Secondary Colors. Lulu Dilworth. Our take on Joe Klein's Primary Colors.
The Absurd Behavior of Electrons. Ceci Lumley. Computers and consciousness.
Capitalist Checklist. Rate your capitalist tendencies.
Fun Stuff for Magellan's Log 15.

Magellan's Log 14
Petrophilia. Found stones as art- and meditation-objects.
LTTE Template. A ready-made, easy-to-use letter to the editor.
Microsoft & the Texas Railroad Commission. Joel Fluker. Capitalist nightmares.
Saltlick. New chapters added.
Islands of Quality. Maurice Fitznuggly. The good, the less good, and the lousy.
***Qin: Jokes from the Chinese. Piongo Pisgah. Tasteless koans, parables, fables?
Page Rage. Doc Cuddy. Why digital books are so slow in coming.
Hedged Bets. A brief guide to corporate political donations.
Apocalypse When? A checklist for the equity-challenged.
Psychic Help. Mme. Petrofina-Blavatksy answers your questions.
The Four Tyrannies. Jerden Purmort. History in one page.
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Sawyer Brown. The Internet and the loss of community.
Fun Stuff 14. The usual suspects: jokes, puzzles, quizzes.
Tibet, Tibet, Tibet. Ceci Lumley. Eliot Pattison's The Skull Mantra.

Magellan's Log 13
Alas, Guggenheim. Rean Rhyne. The opening of a cultural chasm.
One Lap Around Houston or Bust! Douglas Milburn. The title says it all.
***Food4thot. Anonymous. Applied yin-yang.
Walls: A Meditation on Power. Harriet Lobdell.
Magnificat. Harriet Lobdell. The dangers of understanding Monteverdi's Latin.
***The Long Jaded Wrath. Amis Monteo. A novella writ as if 1950- didn't happen.
Offensive Jokes 13. The worst of the Web.
Dingleberry Esthetics. We hit a new low with helpless laughter at an alleged "art" site.
Brainteasers No. 13. Another of our "Big If's" puzzlers.
Kulchur Kwotient No. 780.
***Gender Alert! Doc Cuddy. A world of a hundred genders? That and more.
A Day in the Park. H.R. Kulup. Short story.
Misadventures in English: No. 1 in a Series. An ESL student wrestles with a word.
17 Koans for the 21st Century.
Mystery Words. Word search puzzle using common words of unknown origins.

Magellan's Log 12
***Contrastingly. Artist Joey Ancaster re-thinks the yin-yang symbol.
CPD and the Heartbreak of Overprinting. Test yourself for incipient CPD.
***The Magellan's Log Mind Diet.
Mutants R Us. Doc Cuddy. The search for cosmic contact lenses.
Crossword: Insults. Incorporating some all-time great putdowns.
It's the Teachers, Stupid! Joel Fluker. Not-so-gentle advice for a young teacher.
Interview with Hurd Bohner, author of Totentänze.
Totentänze. Hurd Bohner. Poetic artifacts from the early 1960s.
Wher RU? 10 photos of famous places for you to identify.
M&M. Michelle Furr. Two far-out reaons why the NASDAQ crash may not be too bad.
The Dick Principle. Harold J. Dick. Understanding the hell of daily life in the dot-coms.
***If I Were a Mandala. Harriet Lobdell. Kohinoor drawings from the gender wars.
***Thunderclaps. Chardo Blue Plains. Timely tips on disappearing.
Jokes, Brainteasers, Cartoons, etc. for Magellan's Log 12.

Magellan's Log 11
Mardi Blas Bob Odom. Leers and boredom in New Orleans.
[At the publisher's expense, the staff takes a Mardi Gras break.]
Skiatatuk Speaks Again! No 10,450 in our on-going messages from other planes.
Clothesed Secret. Diebold Essen. Magellan's Log ventures into fashion theory.
Urgent Dispatch. Extraordinary update from the Waxahachie time-travel team.
The Book of the Gnu. Scott McComb. Out with the old, in with the gnu!
Windows: The Hidden Features. What you paid for but'll never see.
Cardiac Purity. Chardo Blue Plains. The purple sage may also dwell in cities.
***YINYANGBANG. Animated gifs + music = a break from all those Internet words.
Time Travel! Recent new transmissions from the 42nd century
***Fables of Innocence and Experience. Lucas Covert. With apologies to Wm. Blake.
Night Shard. Scott McComb. A prose fragment, inspired by Edward Hopper.
T***he Chrome Series. Mixed media works by Kai Sonderling. Music by John Dowland.
The Angels' Dictionary. Fools rush in where you-know-what's fear to tread.
Brainteasers 11. A new version of our popular "Big If's."
ESL 11: Troublesome word pairs.
Interior Trends. Happy with your cubicle? No? Find out why.
Web Watch. Updated, two new sites added.
Kulchur Kwotient No. 778. More vital questions to exercize your over-digitized mind.

Magellan's Log 10
Ballade for a Piano. Fascinating tale of a piano and its restoration.
Sagely Stats. Where've all the new Jesuses and Buddhas gone?
Lucinda, by Friedrich Schlegel. Douglas Milburn translates a 200-year-old best-seller.
Architectural Conundrum. Robert L. Tufford on our antediluvian structures.
Books I Wish I Hadn't Read. Our book editor's picky list of definite unfav's.
Staff bios, updated.
Dreamtime. Dream rerecall difficulties. No. 18 in our "Idea Man" series.
***Counterblast! A hard-working optimist tries to light a candle in a hurricane.
Brainteasers 10.
Springtime in Weimar. Cassandra gets out her worrisome crystal ball again.
Homonyms. A little English exercise with wound-alike words.
The Quantum Effect in Daily Life. Cutting-edge physics applied to life's little problems.
Kulchur Kwotient No. 777.
***Quilts. Feast your eyes on handiwork that becomes art.
Tristan Times 2. Back to the past. Tristan and Isolde jolts our critic.
How Corrupt Is Your Country? A little self-help test for the ethically challenged.

Magellan's Log 9
Non-P* Lit Crit. Doc Cuddy deconstructs the Elitists and admires Donald E. Westlake.
Future Tensed. Joel Fluker on prophecies past, present, and future.
Time Travel! Numerous new transmissions from the 42nd century added
***Mantras Cheap. Create your own mantra.
***Saltlick. Six chapters added.
Report Card. The editor grades each issue of Magellan's Log.
Head Readings. The staff's list of good, sometimes-overlooked books. Updated.
Time Travel! Read shocking fragments from a 42nd-century encyclopedia.
Johnny Appleseedlings. Chardo Blue Plains on UFOs as cosmic gardeners.
***Akt: New Poems for the New Millennium. Robert Lonoke.
***Clouds. Wonderful photos plus slightly tweaked Handel.
Jokes 9. The most offensive collection we've published yet (and that's saying a lot).
Alberich, Jr. Interview: a dot-com millionaire talks about new uses for new money.
ESL: Food! Pictures and names of 28 common foods for you to match.
***Interfaces. Angus Verspeeten on the world after McLuhan (that means us).
American Fortune Cookies.
Homophobia: Unlucky Us. Robert Tufford on the last, silent, social poison.

Magellan's Log 8
God's Big Acre. Gazdagy Alamance's modest take on the Internet.
Ms. Fixit. Our very own curmudgeon list antiquated artifacts we need to fix right away.
The D-words. What happens when Chike Boggus stops for food on I.
Chronic Chronism. Rean Rhyne and the linguistic never/everland of quantum physics.
Y2Kindness. Magellan's Log goes all soft and squishy.
***Nekkid People. Diebold Essen's unabashed looked at Greeks without clothes on.
Really BIG Mo. Doc Cuddy. Tomorrow's out-of-date before it gets here.
The Baby Puritans. Cassandra goes after Boomer hypocrisy bigtime.
Notation. 50 common symbols used in writing English.
Brainteaser 8. A real head-scratcher.
Future Plot. The rising curve of patents issued.
Jokes 8. Our readers' questionable taste forces us into more xxx humor.
[The entire staff of Magellan's Log is on vacation until January 3, Happy New Whatever!] 
***The Willed Suspension of Belief. Douglas Milburn. Life among the sleepwalkers.

Magellan's Log 7
***The Passionate Many Many Many. Diebold Essen. Old passions vs. the Internet.
Boomers & the Grim Reaper. Michelle Furr. Hidden fuel driving the bull market.
So Weird About Little Jimmy. Chardo Blue Plains. Fiction.
Links LS 1999  recorded rounds of computer golf.
Letters. Readers just keep on reacting.
***Retinal R&R. Our choices for the best eye candy programs around.
Why Bill Bradley's Gonna Be the Next President. Doc Cuddy.
***Saltlick: Mind Food for Cyber-nomads. Douglas MIlburn. Updated.
Cars & Crystal Balls. Pedkop Bumbera. Reading the future by looking at cars.
Crazy Quotes. Words to take Advil by.
***Optical Allusions. Pictures to cross your eyes by.
Microsoft Tribute. Our thousandfold homage to the Royalty of Redmond. 
CU-SeeMe & Hormone Heaven. Maurice Fitznuggly. Into the cyber-demi-monde.
XXX Cartoons. Three more offensive cartoons.
Jokes VII. Yet another collection of disgusting jokes. 
Kulchur Kwotient. A bunch of little quizzes to test your cultural I.Q.

Magellan's Log 6
***T.G.C.E.K.A.S. Emma Kirkby fans gather here.
ESL Index. How many on-line mags help you with your English, huh?
July 20, 1969, and All That. What the moon-landing did, and didn't do.
***Teaching. Joel Fluker takes out after teachers, and non-teachers.
Shiva Dancing: The Rothko Chapel Songs. C.K. Latham.
Brainteasers 6: Straight-up Logic.
***Woodcuts. Old-timey pix with old-timey music.
SETI@home Statistics. Douglas Huang. Updated
Culture Wars. Scott McComb. Our little semi-satirical survival guide.
Jokes VI XXX. You understand we only do this because readers like it.
Nudge-nudge, wink-wink. A few good political mags on-line.
How Do You Tell a Bush from a Shrub from a Weed? Doc Cuddy.

Magellan's Log 5
SETI and Global Computer Usage. An analysis by Douglas Huang.
Worrywarts and Curious Cats. Piongo Pisgah. Why we keep on keeping on. 
***Poster. Print one and baffle your friends.
75 Years' War. The 20th century and all that.
***Cartography Revisited.
Saltlick. Book-length presentation of a new, handy approach to meditation.
Kulchur Kwotient 772.
J.M.W. Turner. A modest online appreciation. Paintings with midi's.
Cassandra. Index to the troubled, troubling contributions of our in-house prophet.
Tasteless Jokes 5.
Filicide: The Mythic Reality of Childhood. Ebook study of why the madness continues.
Our Man in Panama. Global insights from the Isthmus.
The Texas Tao. Book-length study by Hardy Metcalf, traffic shrink, of CB radio chatter.
Sleight of Mind. Brainteasers.
Skipping the 21st Century. Lulu Dilworth's modest proposal for dealing with the next hundred years.
Brainteasers 5.
Traffic Ooze. A slightly skewed travel report from China.

Magellan's Log 4
It's the Ontogeny Recapitulating the Phylogeny, Stupid!. Michelle Furr re-casts economic history and theory in a new light.
How Do You Spell "America"? Lulu Dilworth gets the many reasons why people come to America down to one surprising word. Hint: The word is NOT "money."
Classical Chinese Painting. A modest gallery of great art, with midi's.
Big If's No. 1. Another of our fiendish little word puzzles.
It's the Sex, Stupid!. Our last words (we promise!) on Bill and Monica... and American Puritanism. Well. Maybe not the last.
Me and the NYT. Editor Doc Cuddy gets all mushy over The Newspaper.
One haiku and another.
Bring There. Travellers' photos.
Brainteasers 4.
Yankee Doodle Candy. A ridiculously clever test of your knowledge of the USA, warts and all.
Pixel de Light. Don Pfingston on art vs. repro-cyber-art.
Library of Congress Time Machine. A few stunning panoramics from the LoC's vast collection.
Kulchur Kwotient 771.
Myra Beats All. A brief tribute to Gore Vidal's nonpareil hero(ine), Myra Breckinridge.
Things in Common. A picture/word puzzle.
Tasteless Jokes 4.
Humanity takes off. Our travel person heads to Kitty Hawk, with surprising results.

Magellan's Log 3
Tehuacana: A Novel, by R.D.
Hot Links 3.
Tasteless Jokes 3.
Forgotten Masterpieces.
  Treemonisha. A short appreication of the Scott Joplin opera.
  Aylesford Pieces. Handel's overlooked collection of short works for harpsichord.
  Sengtsan: Hsin Hsin Ming.
  An Experiment with Time. J.W. Dunne's forgotten study of predictive dreams.
  "Slip Inside This House." An eight-minute 60s song that's much more than it seems.
Kinky Friedman. An all-stops-pulled appreciation of the early who-dun-its.
Farewell to the 20th Century. Doc Cuddy says bye-bye, with hardly a tear in his eye.
The Natchez Trace. Our car guy discovers one of the little-known great American drives.
The Galle(r)y. Some art, and some midi's, based on staff recommendations.
Talent Sprouts. Diebold Essen finally finds art in China, and extrapolates wildly from there...
XXX- rated Crossword puzzles.
Off-the-beaten- synthesizer midi's. Seined from the Internet, with art to look at while you listen.
The Lost Generation Gap. Maurice Fitznuggly considers the children, unhappily.
Brainteasers 3.
Bach: Goldberg Variations. The whole things in a 140k midi, plus Bosch.
Kulchur Kwotient 770.
The Apprentice at Sais. A Novalis parable for the Internet.
Potholes on the Infobahn. Robert L. Tuffords on cyber-speed bumps.
The Arts of Smoking. Ed Hothi blows smoke. Right in your face.
Greater Ears. Denise Hawkins offers a way out of the family argument.
Tasteless Jokes 3.

Magellan's Log 2
Whompff! The Official Magellan's Log Millennium Aptitude test.
Mutinous Musings. Ceci Lumley on why American politics ain't what it oughta be.
Texas A to Z. Sylvia Sikeston. Everything you need to know about the Lone Star State. (Not safe for chamber-of-commerce types.)
Tree Talks. Our book-length translation of the long-lost Chinese classic.
Good Music. The Magellan's Log basic, basic foundation of a music library.
Head Reading. Books we keep in the Magellan's Log rest areas.
That Old Time Religion. Forget the theology. The old hymns are pretty good stuff.
Forgotten Treasure. Three free little cyber-chests filled with riches.
The Byblos Fragments. Piongo Pisbah. An e-book of musings about, well, almost everything.
The Edges of Divnity; or, Is God a Necrophile. Reppy Duart, D.D. A multi-media theater piece that you can play on your very own computer. Not safe for theologically tender ears.
ESL: Eponyms.
Schubert's Golden Oldies. Pretty good midi's of 10 of Franz's greatest hits.
Wheel Words. Miscellaneous quotes from beyond the blue horizon.
Mystery Writers. Sylvia Sikeston on who she reads--and doesn't read, and why.
Head Graffiti.
Thomas Cole. Our favorite Cole paintings, in fair to middling recolution, with midi's.
The Marionette Theater. Heinrich von Kleist's 200-year-old little essay on what's really going on.
Lenses for Your Telescope. Chardo Blue Plains's word-lenses to help you see beyond the limits of your ego.
Kulchur Kwotient 769. Eleven questions on a wide-range of topics.
Magellan's Lives. Staff bio's.
Reader's Delight. Sites the staff looks at pretty often.
Big If's. A print-and-solve word puzzle.
Gob Gripes. The staff sounds off, negatively.
Male Adolescence.. A brief but telling quote by Stephen Fry.
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Tasteless Jokes 2.

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