Meanwhile South Korea unveils Snuppy, the first cloned dogPresident Bush says intelligent design should be taught in schoolsYahoo launches a search engine for audioKing Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies at 83An Air France jet skids off a Toronto runway and burns; all 309 aboard walk away

The week of Monday, August 1, 2005 Aug 1–5, 2005 Week of Mon, Aug 1–5, 2005

Atomic THX Gore

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Publications

Atomic Theater

Atomic Theater

What are you, but the sum of your parts? Do these parts need to be entertained? The French have a word; Ennui is a listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest in a topic and boredom. This feeling, in actuality, is a by-product of boredom; in a layer of consciousness you are not aware of. These feelings are natural and can happen to anyone.

[Warning: What transpires is purely a matter of pseudo-science to tell an interesting way of experiencing YOUR OWN REALITY! Those who wish to subject the following flights of fancy with actual science are embarking on a fool's errand that rivaled as much as the crusades.

Continued in Publications, Plate 37

Flash

Carlton: THX 2938

Carlton recreates George Lucas' famous student film.

Carlton: THX 2938, a Flash movie

Language

"scuttle"

scut·tle; n..

  1. A small opening or hatch with a movable lid in the deck or hull of a ship or in the roof, wall, or floor of a building.
  2. The lid or hatch of such an opening.

"Esteban stored his scuba gear and brown-bag lunch in the aft scuttle access of the Belafonte."

Scuttle, a Flash movie

Ask Stevil

How is a penny made?
-E to the M

Dear East to the Mississippi,

While many would view the penny as a superfluous, unnecessary denomination of currency they provide a vital service to society. The average height above sea level in the United States was considered for several hundred years as “too high”**. Travelers and adventurers found this height to be a constant nuisance. Ships ran aground many feet short of the shore, sundials ran fast and cats, when dropped, would always look like they were going to land on their feet but would some how always land on their side. The fledgling American government understood that to increase tourism and foster new business. This slight overabundance of size must be corrected. To do this, the continent needed to be weighed down enough to take the debilitating strain off of the universe. The weight had to be distributed somewhat evenly to insure a balance and level land.

The penny was introduced as a simple weight that any and all citizens could acquire and keep on their person, unknowingly helping to lower the country three and a half feet to the absolute, perfect level, a value we now express as S (big s). The number of pennies kept in circulation is derived from the Estabansa equation of continental float:

S = population (t) x Estabansa constant 12.233(E) x weight of a pennies (v) [% Rate of glacial melting (i) x Rate of lava cooling (L)]

This equation has kept the new world properly aligned for the last one hundred years.

A penny is created by spraying liquid copper at high speeds through a fine mesh of steel wool the shape of Abe Lincoln.

Regards,
The Axis of Stevil

** - How can something be too high”?

How is a penny made?

Flash

Smash

Latest in bored at work video games.

Smash, a Flash movie

Thurston's Log

Thurston's Log 08.03.05

An entry from Thurston's Log on August 3, 2005:

Dear Axis of Stevil,

The drive to the airport was rather uneventful. I guess it was the "calm before the storm." I had high hopes for this vacation to see my piglet sister in Las Vegas, Nevada. It had been a while since I had seen Turtle. But even hope could not silence the nervous fear inside. I'd never been to Nevada.

After my first flight, I connected in Washington D.C. with my mother, Ms. Mae B. Pig. Complications arose during our flight that extended the journey. By the time we arrived in Las Vegas, it was an entire twelve hours since we boarded our first planes.

Continued in Letters, Plate 5

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