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Automatic ads are getting weirder. Not quite as perishing as when you pop “Human Liver” into Google, but close. I’d prefer used, myself, but that’s just a personal preference. Science gets tricky when you’re working with the new.

There’s been a lot of mention on-line of The Gates, an arts installation temporarily up in New York. I’ve been enjoying more what people have been doing with it, like the semi-illegal pictures cropping up of The Cloud Gate in Chicago’s Millennium Park. I find it an irritation that Vancouver hasn’t any ambitious pieces of public art. We don’t even have any architecture. (This may be more a new world thing, but I have my doubts. We do not require history to create.) All of Canada seems rather lacking in interesting public art, the best we have are corporate sponsored pieces of bronze scattered randomly about. There were some nice Moose in Toronto for the year 2000, but as that spread to other cities, the original creativity seems to have petered off, sheared away by the tourist boards and the repetitious choice in artists. “I give you bitter pills with sugar coating. The pills are harmless; the poison is in the sugar.“