Week 41
08.12.02
It's not exactly news that the Indian movie
industry is swarming with glamour-struck gangsters.
http://www.bollywhat.com/darkside.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/
journalist/story/0,7792,422515,00.html
But listen to this mafia character brag to the Indian press about the people
he had whacked. Chhota Shakeel makes the Dapper Don sound like Silent
Cal Coolidge.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/sep/
15rajan.htm
http://www.indiatoday.com/webexclusive/
interviews/2001003shakeel.html
http://www.hvk.org/articles/0101/2.html
Then the Indian cops managed to wiretap his chats with a prominent actor who
needed a little favor in the way of rubbing out a rival screen
star, and oh dear, it got all newsy.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/<
BR>articleshow.asp?artid=17476766&sType=1
08.13.02
This business about "cruft" causing your PC to slowly and horribly rot...
It's so true. PCs should be sold with cruft warning labels and
expiration dates.
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=7453/<
BR>ddj0208q/0208q.htm
08.14.02
I can't believe that MAXIM magazine, of all places, would run such a deeply
insightful article about the basic dynamics of male-female
relationships
Oh wait a sec. A woman wrote this. That explains
it.
http://www.maximonline.com/world_o_sex/
articles/article_4752.html
08.15.02
TIGR is so magisterially into genetics, they've got a genetics art
gallery.
http://gnn.tigr.org/articles/art_gallery.shtml
Nice earring.
http://gnn.tigr.org/articles/06_02/
dna_jewelry_art.shtml
Performance art.
http://gnn.tigr.org/articles/03_02/
cup_art.shtml
08.16.02
Why listen to political blather about the next Gulf War when you can watch it
from outer space?
http://www.globalsecurity.org/eye/
pic-2002.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/
world/iraq/index.html
http://www.globalsecurity.org/eye/
lessons.htm
Bruce Sterling writes books like Darwin watched animals. Find out more about him,
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He lives with his wife Nancy and their two daughters in Austin, Texas.
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