Announcements

John LeKay interviews jody in Heyokamagazine #3 wherein they discuss jody's celluloid excursions. Check it out for yet another dimension of our multifaceted artist/editor.

Andrew Hessel participated in the Program on Emerging Technologies Fall Multidisciplinary Panel Meeting at MIT where he gave a talk on Open Source Biology, citing his article from MungBeing Issue #2.

Also at MIT, Chuck Wadey illustrated a spotlight page for events. His illustration is in the archives now, about the 22nd picture down (a boy reaching for a frog) when this article was written.

There's also a Flash comic strip in Nature Magazine called Adventures in Synthetic Biology illustrated by Chuck and written by Drew Endy and Isadora Deese. It was even mentioned in Drawn!. Congratulations!

Pencil Revolution is a fine site that I visit daily. I wrote a small piece about the new Tri-Conderoga pencils, specifically the wondeful shavings that spring from them. John, the editor of Pencil Revolution contributed a beautiful piece to MungBeing Issue #4.

Desperation Squad was on the hit tv show Queer Edge with Jack E Jett the week of Nov. 7-11, 2005. There are many wonderful stories that will make their way to the web on the Desperation Squad site, I'm sure. Keep your eyes peeled (ew). And congratulations, Desperation Squad!

This story has been played to death but I wanted to mention it in this context - specifically thinking about consumerism. Clark, Texas became Dish, Texas. They did this to receive free satellite service from Dish Networks. Good consumers. Roll over.

An interesting thing to me about the Washington Post article is that at the very end there's a link for further reading (or something) that points to www.echostar.com, home of Dish Networks. Hmm....

This is not the first time something like this has happened, it's just the most recent. There's an interesting Wired article from 2003 that discusses naming rights of school districts (among other things). The justification is to make up money from budget shortfalls. Good, good consumers. It looks like a nail.

Library Thing let's you catalog your books online. That's what it does. And it does it well.
Plus, it has the BEST sign up procedure ever! Really. Nonintrusive, simple, and quick so it let's you get into cataloging your books. And that's what the site does.

Also, The Internet Book List allows you to look up books. I used it to find out what books are in the Iain Pears "Art History Mysteries" series. It's useful.

MungBeing Magazine Issue #2 has been read over 12,000 times! Imagine that!

Jody gets quoted in an article about Santacon in the National Post! They even paid tribute to his article with the title of their piece.

Nice job, jody!