November 2001

Latin mass in San Diego. That’s interesting.

Tori Duff’s online class How To Write A Killer Business Plan looks really cool. And only 10 bucks! Ms. Duff is like, a real businessperson, has heavy investment and finance industry experience, and gets the online world in a big way. Highly Recommended.

Bruce Sterling is blogging! Super-duper-cool!

The most powerful image in Heroes a tribute and benefit from Comics artists to the heroes of 9/11/2001 is by Igor Kordey and Chris Chuckry. I think Kordey put down the ink, and Chuckry the color. It’s a powerful image – a POV of the terrorists—seeing the determined, but scared passengers moving to challenge men with icepicks and boxcutters. I think it’s more striking than the images of firefigters, police, medical personnel – because we have so many images of them in real life.

It’s worth visiting a Comic Book shop for. At $3.50, the price is reasonable, and it’s a good cause.

Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched To Their Limits [ buy it ] has been my bathroom reading for the past week. I finally finished it. I’m left with an impression about Jack Cole – comic artist – creator of Plastic Man, illustrator for Playboy Magazine – that he was an interesting character in his own right. Makes me want to see more of his work. His work spans gritty realism, fanciful mania, and for Playboy, delightful cheesecake. The book is shorter than it should have been because of Cole’s suicide at the age of 43.

From the News I Would Not Have Expected department:

China to put a man on the moon by 2005

China on the moon definitely fits in with the New Bizarre World Order.

Couldn’t have said it better myself

( happy belated thanksgiving )

More evidence of the role propaganda has played in building and fostering terrorist groups.

This is a great propaganda film – the kind that you can’t get out of your head. Bin Laden’s story of Muslim subjugation turning to resistance is so effective that I barely need my transcripts. He uses the most sophisticated western film-making techniques: it’s as if Guy Ritchie, Sylvester Stallone and Spielberg have banded together to make jihad, the movie.

Zoe Mozert is so cool. It irritates me that there is not a collection of just her work. She certainly seems to have enough pieces to warrant a book. I would also be interested to know more about her background, and her experiences as a female pinup artist. I also think her signature is cool. This is probably my favorite of the pieces I have seen online.

How the lie about what Clinton said spread
The upside of rapid communications is that it so rapid. The downside is that it’s so rapid it discourages good fact-checking, which tends to produce “news” which misrepresents what was said, leading to faulty conclusions about what it means. Several of the folks who got it wrong retracted, but not all. Kudos to those who retracted they’re their misrepresentations. Giant raspberries to the rest.

(Update: the struck text above is because I made an error)