SPIEGEL Surfs the Web The Neverland Reader
You won't have to wait for the next issue of Vanity Fair to get the latest lurid and disturbing details into the very bizarre world of Michael Jackson and his Neverland Ranch. Jackson may be out of the hospital with his case of the flu, but his stomach ache likely continues today following the release by the US Web site The Smoking Gun of 1,903 pages allegedly taken from the sealed grand jury testimony leading up to his indictment on charges of molestation. The team at Smoking Gun told the Los Angeles Times they were scanning the pages and slapping them up online as quickly as they could. "We need a back room full of monkeys to put all this stuff up there," one site founder told the newspaper. Many in the United States -- including the New York Times and Los Angeles Times -- refused to publish excerpts from the purported documents, but the Smoking Gun has had a proven track record in the past of posting authentic documents.
Taking on Christo: The Summerville Gates
The artwork's official mission statement reads: "There are no official opening events. There are no invitations. There are no tickets.This work of art is FREE and for all to enjoy, the same as all of our previous projects." Sound like something Christo might write? Guess again -- it's "The Somerville Gates" done by another artist who only goes by one name: Hargo. But don't dally. While Christo's "The Gates" will be up for sixteen days, Hargo's Sommerville version will only be up "until the cleaning lady comes."
Climate Change Blues
If all of Wednesday's coverage of global warming is making you feel a little quesy, well, it should. Just to add to the spirit of the day, here are three Web sites to check out. But before you get too doom and gloom, remember that Kyoto is an effort to keep the worst from happenning. No one knows how long it will take before the polar ice caps disappear, but the planet's glaciers seem well on their way toward meeting their maker. Greenpeace has a photo comparison of how Norway's Spitsbergen Glacier has changed over the last 80 years. And just to twist the knife, try out this carbon dioxide emissions calculator to figure out just how much greenhouse gas you produce every year. Still feeling bad? The international orgnization WWF offers concrete steps of what you can do to help stop global warming.
