sometimes you have a project, or a challenge, or a relationship, that has so many issues and unformulated problems that you just have to stay in your room for a whole week with alain badiou's recently translated _being and event_ and piles and piles of index cards that are the notes for your new book, and just sort and think and sort and think, until finally the project you're really thinking about, in this case niknaz's new website, figures itself out and floats to the surface. then you wake up in the morning, go for a long walk and imagine what cyberpunk looks like, and get to work!