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"Giving well is the best revenge."

Cinematographer Tom Richmond (Stand and Deliver, A Midnight Clear, Waking the Dead, etc.) re-visits Houston and captures the city in a gallery of fly-in-amber still photos.

TattooS
Take a break from all the words. We've got a small slide show of skin art for you, with a bit of Scott Joplin as background music.

BEING THERE
Check our selection of readers' travel photos for a new, stunning shot of Segovia, Spain.

Sacred
Objects
Our small tribute to small objects of ancient design and utter simplicity, filled with the imparted sacredness of noble, necessary labor. With music.

Craft
Counts
Re-reading the art of the recent past, Diebold Essen points toward the future.

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.

Don't Read
This Book!
For all us media junkies, Bill McKibben's Age of Missing Information is probably the most dangerous, subversive, and hopeful book in decades.

In. at. ten.
tive. ness.
Maurice Fitznuggly tries to slow the data flood and ask, "What price speed?" He thinks he came up with an answer but has trouble remembering it because his pager's beeping, his cell phone's ringing and his GPS battery just gave out.

NO. CAL.
HOT PRINT
Driving through the wilds of Northern California, Douglas Milburn lunches in tiny Boonville, and stumbles onto "a great American newspaper."

ANTI-SOMA
Tips for a friend in time of considerable stress, to lower his prescription bill and improve his coping skills.

The Age of
Emesis
Atomic Age? Space Age? Age of Anxiety? Nope. Diebold Essen finally comes up with the right name for the old century.

Cardiac Famine
CUL: Elinor Hoefs worries about the over- examined psychic and emotional diet of our advanced society.

WINSTAT
In celebration of Microsoft's continuing development of truly innovative short-comings in the many versions of Windows, we do a little rigorous statistical analysis and say, "Thanks, Redmond."

Beneath a thin veneer of bloated education and compulsive dressing- down, snobbery is now endemic. Find out how you rate.

Galactic Grades
A hapless student takes on a hapless planet for his master's degree project in Galactic Administration. After one century, his graduate committee renders this judgment.

Brainteaser.
KulchurKwotient.
Tasteless Jokes.
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