Smoke kills, indeed: I found this Russian Flash cartoon incredibly funny. I hope patriotoid Americans don't get offended. Might be work-unsafe, especially if your boss is a belligerant flag-waving drone. ¶

This will be the only post, I promise I won't be a cellphone freak like Alexander: I did purchase a Siemens C62 the other day, so that I could finally bury that old S35. Well, I'm happy with it. It just works. The 128x128 display is probably among the best color displays you can get in a low-end phone. I've already transferred some small (WAP downloads can't exceed 5KB) .gif images via GPRS and set them as wallpaper since the images Siemens included are, in a word, shite. The messaging works fine and although the games aren't good - but I never did much mobile gaming anyway - the utils (i.e. calendar, calculator, memo, etc.) are very good compared to other phones. Just a warning, though: The software that came with it (version 11) was buggy as hell. I immediately went to the Siemens dealer and had it updated to version 16, and now the phone seems to work fine. ¶

Monotonik delivers! For You & For Me, a full double CD of gorgeous icy IDM from Russian musician Sleepy Town Manufacture, as free MP3 files. Very, very nice. ¶

Hypocrates, despite being a movie so depressing I have to wonder why aren't people slashing their wrists after watching it, won Best Short Fiction at the FEST2003 film festival held last weekend. My congratulations to my friend Joana Costa, who wrote and directed it. And see? All my yelling as assistant director and my stiffness as editor did work... Congratulations also to Joana Gaio - always my first choice when I direct and need a good art director - who won Best Experimental Video and the Public Choice award with her Orange. ¶