Arts & Culture: July 2003 Archives

In principio erat verbum. At least that's what I think it says. It really looks like "verbu", with the "m" turned into a sort of squiggle above the "u". "Et de9 erat verbu~." Apparently this guy Gutenberg was into that sort of IM spelling the kids all use, in which u swap in a digit occasionally and shrtn th wrds s mch s psbl. Gotta be economical about the paper: it doesn't grow on trees, you know.

Those Viet Commies got this one right.

Rob Diaz has posted a link to the trailer for Mel Gibson's "The Passion". You could probably just play it as a stream off that link, but I'd suggest you download it to your own machine first. You're gonna want to see it more than once.