- I always like a good satirical hoax, especially a good satirical art hoax. While one understands the insulted reactions of the EU member countries (and Bulgaria probably has good cause), the larger points about fractiousness and long-held grudges and stereotypes and suspicions within the EU are things that they will need to address sooner rather than later. And of course it will come down, these things always do, Cerny almost certainly counted on that: To my mind, this is a conceptual performative piece, not an installation.
- Hopety? It's a little silly, but my juvenile fascination with impressive machines gets rekindled when I hear about the new presidential limo. Also I really like bad puns, sorry.
- It's been a sad week for science fiction screen icons: Patrick McGoohan, creator and star of The Prisoner, died Tuesday, and Ricardo Montalban, whom everyone knows as Mr. Roarke but who to geeks of all ages will forever be Khan Noonien Singh (KHAN!), died Wednesday. Until some enterprising mashup geek puts together a YouTube clip of Number 6 escaping from Fantasy Island, please accept this tribute to one of Montalban's other famous performances:
15 January 2009
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"One of the specifications is that we don't talk about the specifications"
It's the car equivalent of fight club. This is going to be a truly magnificent presidency.
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