The FDA has just approved human growth hormone for healthy children who are considered short. I'm imagining something similar to the SUV syndrome happening within a few years: after all, shortness, like the size of one's vehicle, is relative rather than absolute. (This particular giant is a product of Eastern European experimentation with HGH: it was spotted in Dresden, Germany in December of 2003)
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Blogs to watch: a new group blog called Grand Text Auto "about computer mediated and computer generated works of many forms, including interactive fiction, net.art, electronic poetry, interactive drama, hypertext fiction, computer games of all sorts, and shared virtual environments." The bloggers include well-know figures in the digi-art world and hypertext world such as Stuart Molthroup, and the unfolding conversation between these central characters and whoever jumps in with a commentary gives one the consistent sense of being in on a fairly significant conversation -- a sense one gets only infrequently these days on the more freeform mailing lists centered on digital art and culture.
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