Graduate School Applications

Well, I'm done!

I dropped everything off at the Canada Post office on Kent Street, sent via Express mail. Cost of soem 55 dollars, but everything's off!

( And some boasting, hopefully not too out of place. )

Now to complete the online application for McGill!

Finally!

Eh.

I had problems submitting my McGill application last night, so I phoned to get a 200 dollar extension. This will be enough to pay for the three credit-card applications. It will also serve as potent proof that credit cards are evil.

Anyway: To celebrate, I bought the 2300AD supplement Mission Arcturus. It's small, it's the only thing I'll buy apart from food and printer credits, so it's OK. Tonight, to the Harp & Thistle for fun (no drinks) and peer editing.

Art as Torture

From The Guardian via Charlie Stross's journal:

Anarchists and the fine art of torture

Spanish art historian says they put enemies in disorienting cells

Giles Tremlett in Madrid
Monday January 27, 2003
The Guardian

A Spanish art historian has uncovered what was alleged to be the first use of modern art as a deliberate form of torture, with the discovery that mind-bending prison cells were built by anarchist artists 65 years ago during the country's bloody civil war.

( Bauhaus artists such as Kandinsky, Klee and Itten, as well as the surrealist film-maker Luis Bunuel and his friend Salvador Dali, were said to be the inspiration behind a series of secret cells and torture centres built in Barcelona and elsewhere, yesterday's El Pais newspaper reported. )

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