an argument about a band or something, you could do a LOT worse than starting at the newly-relaunched TrouserPress.com. There’s so much here you can’t even keep it straight will looking around.

: Concepts for the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site.

makes the important point in his short article on Spielberg’s Minority Report: Why Spielberg’s Vision is Flawed. It was a fun movie, but the future it portrayed was deeply flawed. I’m no sci-fi genius, but a story like that begins from the proposition that the future portrayed is a probable (or possible) extension of today. This is pretty clearly not the case, even for the many efforts to do so throughout the film. Sippey puts it well: “…Minority Report is not a networked future. Spielberg’s vision of the future is, essentially, television writ large, with a frosty layer of ‘Hello, ‘ sprinkled on top.”

today for anyone who enjoys literature in the English language. Timothy Findley has died at age 71, of complications following a broken hip. Time to dip back into my library and re-read some of his best novels – Famous Last Words, Telling of Lies, or my favourite, Not Wanted on the Voyage.

to The Mirror Project, which is a year old today. Yay Heather! Yay Aaron! Yay all contributors!