Escapist Fun at your Desktop

Time
12/15/97
By Page 60
Two non-Xena photos

COMMENTARY
Taken from the Entertainment Weekly review and devoid of that shameful B+ rating, Time magazine lets the qworld know about WHOOSH! We have better company this time, being reviewed with www.jodi.org ("The Rules" obviously didn't make the Time cut), and 5 computer games.

EXCERPT

   WEBSITES

   JODI www.jodi.org

   Don't attempt to adjust your browser. Jodi is supposed to look that way. The
blinking green gobbledygook, which at first seems to be a software meltdown, is
actually an abstract work that is uploading modern art into the digital era. For
the techno-savvy, a peek at the page's programming language reveals a bomb
painted in ASCII art--letters and numbers arranged to create a picture. The rest
of the piece, splattered with familiar computer icons and seemingly intentional
error messages, may be harder to grasp, bearing little resemblance to most art
on the Net. Indeed, Jodi's creators, Dutch artists Joan Heemskerk and Dirk
Paesmans, still receive complaints and tips on how to fix the screen clutter.
Their newest work, part of a group show celebrating the Mac Classic, is showing
offline at a New York City gallery. Can the Museum of Modern Digital Art be far
off?

   WHOOSH! JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF XENA STUDIES
www.thirdstory.com/whoosh/ 

   Whoosh is the sound of Xena's chakram--that metal discuss-shaped
weapon--flying through the air. For nondevotees of TV's Xena: Warrior Princess,
it's also the sound of this monthly E-zine's obsessive content--academic
articles, gossip column, thesis-size episode synopses, an Encyclopedia
Xenaica--flying over your head. But even fans who aren't "hardcore nutballs"
(one encyclopedia entry) should appreciate the site's camp, Xena-worthy humor.

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