Tokyo (API) -- Today, in a small and utterly insignificant wireservice story, Sony announced that they had purchases the companies e-frontier, DAZ3D, E-on, Eovia, and acquired the rights to several programs from the struggling Corel Corporation after ten months of relentless backroom negotiating. These properties will be combined under a new, sub-corporation that will be named Metacreations, and will specialize in providing the nascent community of 3D Artists online with the tools and content necessary to make instant art through four mouse clicks. The new Chief of Sony Digital Art Products - Metacreations, is a former President and CEO of Viewpoint Corporation. He has sworn that they will completely rewrite all source code from all the companies applications into a single, monolithic entity that is guaranteed to work perfectly on all systems produced by Sony Computers, and absolutely nothing else. This announcement follows the earlier announcement three seconds earlier that Microsoft and Sony have merged into Sonysoft, and the new company has recently placed a 170 billion dollar offer for Apple Computer that is effectively 8 times the stock price, all but ensuring that the recent round of bribery of the current FTC members has not been for naught.

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)