"Gridcosm was hot stuff in 1997. Now it has competitors--and none of them are actually making a difference in the world.

This is not the heady wired age of the WELL and Howard Rheingold. The High Tech Boom went bust, and U.S. programmers are now outsourced, jobless and on the street. ( what the??)

Gridcosm is no longer hot stuff but it could be fun given a chance. Like UNIX, it's aging but still functional and ever-increasingly refined and versatile. (overly techy weirdness totally TCA)

But if y'all insist on continuing to endlessly play the blame game, it might be better if Gridcosm got shut down. (bullsh_t) Jon and Ed probably don't have enough spare time to keep it going. Especially if it's a toxic waste dump in which obscure MENSA genius artistes get revenge on the world for not showering them with love, fame and fortune.

If Gridcosm goes belly-up, I'm NOT your scapegoat. Got that? Blame Ken Lay's buttboy George W. Bush. Sorry if that hits close to home. While you're at it, blame the sleazy hustlers who bloated NASDAQ into an overvalued bubble. So many good people got hurt when that bubble exploded in 2000. "

What the f does this all mean?

This is so full of bullsh_t JER thanks for coming in. It all means nothing! Hygrid first of all won the award.

You know TCA -- you never once give a look inside your creative process. What the fu_k motivates you -- wait don't answer that.

I can deal with your hyper-topical art more so than I can your explanations. They honestly anger me. Keep up the art, ditch the verbosity, up the honesty.

SUN