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"16 Words" by Margo Guryan.

The British government has learned that Sadam Hussein recently sold significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
-- George W. Bush, 2003 State Of The Union address
(mp3 audio, embedded video, realaudio stream, and transcript at American Rhetoric/Online Speech Bank)

Review at FensePost.

Written last June, it was released as a single in the UK last month.

Deep background: September 2001 story on Guryan from Mean Street magazine.

The ghost of A Sphere demonstrates to A Square that his task of teaching the denizens of Flatland that there are other dimensions will ultimately fail.

Flatland the movie/DVD. Haven't seen this, want to. Review/plot at Film Threat. Download or watch the trailer and other videos.

Based on Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott, 1884.

From a review at RevolutionSF:

A regular guy is wrapped up in courtroom intrigue, with assassination and sedition. Then a visitor reveals there's more to the universe than he ever imagined. Telling his universe that, though, is kind of a problem.

Nursing home renegades:

They’ve created alternatives with names like the Green House Project, the Pioneer Network, and the Eden Alternative — all aiming to replace institutions for the disabled elderly with genuine homes. Bill Thomas, for example, is a geriatrician who calls himself a “nursing home abolitionist” and built the first Green Houses in Tupelo, Miss. These are houses for no more than 10 residents, equipped with a kitchen and living room at its center, not a nurse’s station, and personal furnishings. The bedrooms are private. Residents help one another with cooking and other work as they are able. Staff members provide not just nursing care but also mentoring for engaging in daily life, even for Alzheimer’s patients. And the homes meet all federal safety guidelines and work within state-reimbursement levels.

They have been a great success. Dr. Thomas is now building Green Houses in every state in the country with funds from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation....

-- New York Times, Rethinking Old Age.

More, more. The Old Folks' Rock'n'Roll Rest Home, please.

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