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michael atavar's **** (four stars) celebrates its third month with a
free gift–a shockwave screensaver (for power mac pc and windows 95) of
randomly-generated falling snowflakes and synthetic sound. Plus an
emotional story about ET (homo phone home).

**** (four stars) this beautiful, shimmering, electronic haiku is a
cumulative work. It's completed month by month until the end of
1998–when it will float up on the web indefinitely. **** (four stars)
is a calm, clear, still place–the antithesis to all the speed and
madness of the www. It's best viewed at night with all the lights off.