bombs inside Petersburg. Brasilia has a hot but equable climate. Petersburg has floods, subsidence, sweltering summers, and merciless frost heave. Bmsilia is run down in places and has its slums, but the level of decay in Petersburg is truly gothic. Brasilia is young, but at least it knows what it stands for. Petersburg has a full-blown identity crisis. In the past century it's been Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad, and then Petersburg over again. And now it's not even a political capital any more. But Brasilia's just not very interesting. Petersburg has real magic. ⢠Bruce $terliBg is a wrltcr, editor, and net activist. He was co-founder, with William Gibson, of the c3be~punk movement, and hisface was on the cover of thefirst issue of Wired. He can be reached at "bruces~ well corn" Udylc Online is the companion publication to International Typeface Corporation's quarterly magazine, U~'le (Upper and Lower Case: The lnternational ~onrnal of Graphic Design and Digital Media). Sou can visit their web site at %rarw.itoconls.com". That takes care of August and September, 1999. October through December will most likely be enlivened by a tittlediscussed, by likely quite prevalent, sort of bug: the Y2K rollout bug. Already certain automated
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