• UBU WEB’s summer 2006 offerings are online. A few which caught my eye on the front page are as follows: William S. Burroughs, The Cut-Up Films (1963-1972), Henry Miller reading from Black Spring and The Colossous of Maroussi (both 1949), Samuel Beckett, Not I (with Billie Whitelaw, 1971), Jorge Luis Borges, The Mirror Man, György Ligeti’s Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes, Cinema of Transgression Early 1980s Lower East Side Films: Kern, Moritsugu, Pfahler, Wojnarowicz, etc., and Erik Satie’s Pièces pour Guitare Played by Pierre Laniau (1982).

• Wrap yourself up in the Drug Quilt, a flash visualization of the american pharmaceutical landscape. Frightening somehow.

• Turns out even a photo of watching eyes is enough to keep us honest.

• Some links on the storied history of Sing Sing prison.

• Interesting Google TechTalk on The Paradox of Choice, Why More Is Less.

• New method for sniffing out traces of past life on Mars: desert varnish.