Index

Home Page                                                 04
Letters to the editor                                     08
Opener 
Midnight Radio: 
Geoff Metcalf interviews Charles Ostman                   14
The Good, the Bad and the Unnameable:
Chris Hudak ponders two Lovecraftian gaming creations     24
Tech Items
Purloined Polygons: 
Real object capture on the fly                            28
Touch VR: 
Bi-directional tactile response                           34
Smell VR: 
See me, feel me, smell me                                 38
Rumination
Toggling Towards Ecstasy
-By Arthur and Marilouise Kroker                          42
"The Next Big Thing"
-BY Jan Ozer                                              52
Tech Features
The Teraflop Sandbox: 
An interview with information architect Tom DeFanti
-By Heide Foley                                           44
Seductive mutations: 
VRML creator Mark Pesce pontificates on the noösphere
-By Ladd McPartland and Heide Foley                       54
Head Cheese on Wry: 
Do your thoughts belong only to you?
-By Charles Ostman                                        62
Fashion
La Floresta Oscura Retinal: 
La moda sartorial de Martín Rentería                      70
-Photographs by Jill Greenberg
Music
Strange Alchemy:
William Orbit puts himself through 
a fuzzbox for Mark Katzman                                78
Ground Control to Sonic Boom:
An ex-Spaceman talks about 
the pestilence of raves with Sylvia Tan                   84
Failin' Better: 
Mark Eitzel explains his emergence
from the ruins of American Music Club to Mark Katzman     90
Fear and Loving in Berkeley: 
Lidya Loverly gets intimate with Big Bird Magoo           98  
Kultur
Entropy and the Dreamchine:
Whatever became of Gysin's psychoactive cylinder? 
-By Justine Herbert                                       102
Endpieces
St. Timothy (and Why Not?):
A farewell to Timothy Leary
-By R.U. Sirius                                           110
Spider Eggs:
-By Dave Fremont