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A comic in honor of Glenn. Get well soon!

How can you not love a headline like that?

Jesus actor struck by lightning

Actor Jim Caviezel has been struck by lightning while playing Jesus in Mel Gibson’s controversial film The Passion Of Christ.

The lightning bolt hit Caviezel and the film’s assistant director Jan Michelini while they were filming in a remote location a few hours from Rome.

It was the second time Michelini had been hit by lightning during the shoot.

[via artnotes]

Yes, I actually saw a skinny little guy wearing these $300 Gucci sneakers at my gym yesterday, talking on his cell phone while “working out”.

I just finished moving James‘s weblog from b2 to Movable Type. Yea!

If you have any problems with his site, let me (or him, but I’m the one who is going to fix it) know.

Some recent excellent posts from him:

• On our new French friends
• The Dalai Lama says war may sometimes be justified, but homosexuals and oral sex are always bad
• Art and Fun in Chelsea last Saturday

Do I have a stalker? Someone has started a blog called bloggy says described as:

significant excerpts from bloggy from www.bloggy.com (::not affiliated::)

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UPDATED: The page has been cleared of content. Here is the page cached by Google.

I don’t completely hide who I am on this blog, but my real name doesn’t appear anywhere on it, since I don’t want it to be too easy to use Google to find it via my real name.

Searching on my real name now brings up Bloggy in the top 10 results. Interesting search algorithms they got working over there at Google…

The NY Times printed a letter today which talked about activists complaining that the cure for AIDS is too expensive, or being promoted too heavily. Did we find a cure and no one told me?

AIDS Is Not a Glamorous Disease (5 Letters)

To the Editor:

In the mid-1980’s, the complaint was that a cure for AIDS was not being developed quickly enough. In the mid-90’s, the complaint was that the cure was too expensive. Now Harvey Fierstein (Op-Ed, July 31) argues that the cure is promoted too aggressively. What are pharmaceutical companies to do? The wonder is that they have invested any money at all in trying to find a cure for an infection so “completely avoidable.”

I am grateful that these companies have taken the financial risk and discovered treatments, however imperfect. Let them advertise any way they choose. The only people who believe that advertising can cause people to engage in risky behavior are the ad men themselves.

TED S. LEVY
Weston, Conn., July 31, 2003

Letter to the editor may be to letters@nytimes.com.

I thought people justified gas-guzzling SUVs because of their safety (ignoring any penis-size insecurity issues). Do you think most cars would flip over after being hit by a smaller vehicle?

The Subaru:

hit the BMW, which flipped over:

Quoting the Newsday article:

Two women walking along Queens Boulevard were crushed yesterday when a sport utility vehicle struck by another car careened, flipped and slammed into them, police said.

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Witnesses said the 1:20 p.m. accident began when a 63-year-old man in a Subaru Forester stopped, then drove through a red light on 78th Avenue at Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills, police said.

The Subaru smashed into a BMW SUV driven westbound on the boulevard’s service road by a 37-year-old man, police said, causing the BMW to veer out of control and overturn.

For the word nerds out there, and I’m thinking of one in particular:

The Economist Style Guide