AIDS update. (via Dr Menlo)

Spook the spooks. (via post-atomic)

Found poetry from Japan. (via ptarmigan)

"RB: It strikes me that so much of what I see in Japanese print media seems very retro.

DC: They were doing retro 20 years ago, you see. We didn’t start doing retro until five years ago. They are still ahead." --Douglas Coupland (via Caterina)

"It felt a bit ridiculous- four grown people all
out shopping for Barbie notebooks and strawberry-
scented erasers… but I knew it was necessary."
--Baghdad Burning

A flaw in Mesklin.

"Tony Roberts has painted the distant world of
Mesklin (from a novel by Hal Clements, Mission of
Gravity) as if it were one of Albert Bierstadt's scenes
of the western United States..." --James Elkins