>>> March 14, 2002

Gonads and strife

Radioactive: We all know the powers that be are burying tons of radioactive waste just below rocky outcroppings on the earth’s surface—they got to put it somewhere. But what happens in 8,000 years when our civilization is the subject of a high-school textbook? How will an 82nd-century condo developer know his lot causes babies to be born three-eyed?

This very peculiar report from the U.S. government’s Sandia National Labs attempts to solve this conundrum. This is how future generations are going to be kept away from material radioactive for the next 10,000 years. You have to see it to believe it. Point your Geiger at

www.halcyon.com/blackbox/hw/wipp/wipp.html

Weeeee! A squirrel sings a song about exciting things. Weeeeeeeee! Another totally wacked-out Flash animation with an acoustic-guitar-and-speeded-up-vocal soundtrack. Weeeeeeeeee! Ron Jeremy makes an appearance. So does Steven Hawking. Weeeeeeeeeeee! It’s Gonads and Strife. It’s a minute of frantic strangeness. Drive yourself nuts at www.iconsofindustry.org/strife/. :

—Michael Citrome