As posted on the BMEzine news blog on March 15, the BMEzine founder, Shannon Larratt, is dead. http://news.bme.com/2013/03/15/rip-shannon-larratt-1973-2013/ He was an icon of body modification and certainly a publisher of the "extreme" and passionate believer in bodily autonomy and freedom of expression. He will be missed. Wiggling bare toes, ~*Ganesha*~