Napster is calling on beta testers to test its subscription system . magazine Fuzz reports that Yuri Shevchuk , Stas Namin , Garik Sukachev and Alexander F. Sklyar intend to sign the Open Audio License . Antivirus developer Sophos has discovered another clone of the LoveLetter virus - VBS/LoveLet-CL , the author of which is known to be a) an idiot, b) a lonely fighter against the Echelon system .

Overcoming totalitarianism as a problem: an attempt at orientation Sergey Averintsev Publication date: May 17, 2001 "Vergangenheitsbewältigung", "overcoming" the totalitarian past, is a task that theoretically faces all peoples with totalitarian experience, although in practice, as we see, not everyone takes note. One of the lessons we learn from the analysis of totalitarian madness is that any system of reasoning becomes madness when it becomes uncritical of itself.

To the release of the film "The Man who Cried" and "Autumn in New York" In the first distrust of films made by women, I woke up relatively recently - less than two years ago, when watching the Romance of Katrin Braya. Before that, I sacredly believed in the equality of sexes, including creative, and the ability of women to direct the cinema in my view was supported by the example of Kira Muratova - well, what is there to object, though the director of the highest class, which are few!

Hunger 31 Practical gastroenterology reading Alexander Ageev Publication date: May 17, 2001 The bottom of my deep literary impressions of the last week turned out to be partly related to cinema. Nikita Mikhalkov , all of his steamy summer self, somewhere in deep Cannes (or “in deep Cannes ” - I keep forgetting which is correct) said weightily about his creative plans: “Maybe “State Councilor” based on Akunin . Or maybe - "Burnt by the Sun-2".

All about Poetry 41 Miroslav Nemirov Publication date: May 17, 2001 "Poor Art" Same as minimalism. The desire to make do with as little artistic means as possible. The main driving force of avant-garde art throughout its existence. For more details, see "Black Square" . - "Poor Art" in Max Fry 's ABC ; - “Poor art” in the Big Encyclopedic Dictionary : - “POOR ART” (Italian arte povera) is a term used by Italian criticism in the 1960s.

NasNet: issue 45 Sergey Kuznetsov Publication date: May 17, 2001 Project: nineties (Game conditions are here .) KS: new Russians, sex Culturologist Tsaplin and his new Russian friend Zelinsky sat in the “OGI Project” on Mayakovskaya and talked about women. “I met a wonderful girl here,” said Zelinsky, “she got in, and I pulled her out.” - In what sense - hit? - Tsaplin did not understand. - Well, several drunken bulls were going to fuck her, but she clearly didn’t want that. I saved her.

Bykov-quickly: Look Dmitry Bykov Publication date: May 17, 2001 The writer's diary has always seemed to me to be the optimal genre - precisely because of its demonstrative, emphasized subjectivity. A good writer is one who sets things up well. After all, it is not the conclusion that is valuable, but the experience. The “quickles” will contain reviews, polemics, and new poems.