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The Grand Crux

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Baltimore - 15 August, 1999 - I have actually produced more new copy for this edition than I have in many a moon. Looking over what we have to offer you this week, and considering my other writing obligations, I'm amazed.

Part of Web publishing, of course, is responding to how little or how much your team of writers have to offer in a given week. It's not my habit to fill gaps, but this week I actually had a number of pieces I wanted to contribute.

I had planned to go out of town this week, just to get out of my literary/monastic shell for a change. I chickened out.

I'm glad I did as the major push to get this edition completed has to do with the fact that my good friend, DARRYL COX and his family will be visiting me from Philadelphia today. They'll be the first humans I know, other than shopkeepers and people in check-out lines, I've seen in weeks.

Yes, I am that much of a hermit.

I chose the "Grand Crux" theme for this edition because I suspect we are all in our own way reacting to the last solar eclipse, and the astronomical "grand cross" which the planets formed at the time, this week. None of the most silly and dire predictions of people inclined to flights of phantasy came true, of course. They never do.

But we are all affected by cosmic activity, one way or another. Like Alexander the Great, we win or lose battles based on our interpretation of the activity in the heavens. Being over 90% water, we feel the pulls and tugs of gravitational fields as much as the tides. And now it is scientifically undeniable that we are made of "star stuff." So why should we not respond?

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Once again, here's a Web site where you can do something, whenever you like, to make the world a better place. So throughout this and future editions of the magazine you'll find this link:

FEED THE HUNGRY. You can help someone else in this world and IT WON'T COST YOU A DIME. If you simply remember to drop by The Hunger Site every day that you surf and click a simple button ONE LESS PERSON WILL GO HUNGRY. The food is distributed by the United Nations World Food Programme and paid for through the sponsorship of companies that care. Do your part.

Another site made on a Macintosh ABOUT THIS ISSUE: BOB POWERS outdoes himself this issue by covering a number of enticing titles in POWERSSOUND. I recommend you surf over and check them out. KEVIN CAREY's piece in DAY ONE is the lead of this thematic edition. Your VOX POPULI page features the e-mails you have sent us about recent features and changes. And, oh yeah, I've got a few things to contribute this week, too.

There are a number of other great features in this edition, so I won't keep you here when you could be enjoying them. As always, feel free to use our TALK BACK form, or e-mail me personally to let me know what you think of our effort.

Thanks for coming back this week.

Work like you don't need the money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
Dance like no one is watching,
Rod

EDITORIAL CORRECTIONS: The word "bigoted" was misspelled on this page in our last editon for approximately 24 hours. G21 apologizes for any inconvenience this editorial oversight may have caused our readers.

ROD AMIS has published this magazine since 1990. It first appeared as a hardcopy 'Zine. In March, 1996, he launched it here on the Web. Rod was a Contributing Editor at Suite101.com, where he wrote the " 'Net Publishing" feature. His work has been featured in the San Francisco Bay Guardian Online, NRV8, and at WebLab's Reality Check site. Rod was also a contributing writer on technology for Faulkner Information Services.

Rod is a columnist for the Andover News Network, where he writes on web design and development issues every Thursday. He is principal writer and Editor for IT Manager's Journal, where he reviews technology issues five days a week. His opinions on the Info Age began appearing on MethodFive's HYPER technology newsletter in March.

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