Month: February 2002

“You Sexy Thing: The decision From Hell: Is Heather Graham sexier than Amanda Detmer? Browse our photo gallery and then cast your vote!” Hard to believe, but somebody actually wrote that down. God bless TV Guide. At least 24 is on tonight, and there’s an interview with co-creator Joel Surnow in today’s Salon. I’ve only recently found this out, but Sharon is right: programs like this alone justifiy television.

Then again, I’m the guy who’s favorite show is Buffy the Vampire Slayer and who’s having tapes of it mailed to him from an acquaintance in California, so it’s probably best to take everything I say with a grain of salt.

Caitlin R. Kiernan writes:

The stories, the world, and me, we play this game of leap frog. The world changes me, the act of writing stories changes the stories that I write, and the stories I write seem capable of effecting at least very small changes upon the world.

And:

When I was in college, I was fortunate enough to attend a lecture on chimpanzees by Dr. Jane Goodall. She described a group of chimps that she’d watched reacting to an enormous waterfall. Clearly it disturbed them greatly. They seemed terrified. They would cower and peer out at it from between their fingers. But again and again, they would return to see that damned waterfall. And “I began to suspect,” said Dr. Goodall, “that I was watching the origins of religion.”

And:

It’s not an easy thing, being a Luddite and a geek.

Blogdex also leads me to Speckled Paint where Joshua Tense discusses the Adbusters corporate flag debate:

I do wish that the Apple logo wasn’t included in the billboard. I’m not sure what corporate evils Apple has commited. It makes me think it’s only there because it’s a nice vector logo, easy to place in a solid-on-solid format.

It’s a good point. I think. Is the Apple logo there just because it’s an easily recognizable brand or, as was suggested at Metafilter, because it provides a counterpoint to the Microsoft logo in the top right corner? Personally, I was distracted by Speckled Paint’s link to all those graphic images of extreme computer hardware.