Warren Ellis's Blog

November 29, 2009

"The 55-year-old man from a small town in the central province of Quang Nam opened up his wife's grave in 2004, moulded clay around the remains to give the figure of a woman, put clothes on her and then placed her in his bed, Vietnamnet.vn said"
(tags:nutters )'Alien spies live among us' says Bulgarian gov space boffin ? The Register
"A boffin at the Bulgarian national Space Research Institute has stated that not only are...
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November 28, 2009

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Testing Zoundry Raven, a desktop blogging client. Using an image by Emma Vieceli to do so. You can find the print for sale here. Post2Blog never did drag and drop very well. I'd like a desktop client that was as smooth and easy as Tumblweed for Tumblr, to be honest, but there doesn't seem to be one that clever and slick for Wordpress.

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If the bumf is to believed, then swiping this image of Emma doing a bookstore PA should just paste in here:

(Sorry, Em, I'm using you as an experimental animal...

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November 27, 2009

I don't normally do this, because it usually turns into a clusterfuck. But the fine little Thinkpad X61 that Avatar Press picked up for me when my main computer died horribly last year… well, it's been worked very hard, and is starting to cough a little blood. It's also buzzing intermittently, after the last wave of Windows over-the-air updates made it do a fainting goat impression and then turn itself off.

I have, however, quite quickly gotten used to working on a laptop rather than the...

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No, really. This isn't serious, right?


I mean, the book got cancelled.


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Your home shopping list, by Ariana, which saves me having to type out pretty much the same list.  Did you see Wil Wheaton's new mug idea?  Right here.

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November 26, 2009

The Scrap Shop by hopelarson on Etsy
"I've set up an Etsy storefront to sell my comic pages and illustrations" - Hope Larson, brilliant graphic novelist
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November 25, 2009

Wil Wheaton has a message for your dreams tonight:


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Intel Wants Brain Implants in Its Customers' Heads by 2020 | Popular Science
"scientists anticipate that consumers will adapt quickly to the idea, and indeed crave the freedom of not requiring a keyboard, mouse, or remote control for surfing the Web or changing channels."
(tags:sci tech neuro )World around us: Experimental Soviet "flying tank"
"The Antonov A-40 Krylya Tanka was a Soviet attempt to allow a tank to glide into a battlefield after being towed aloft by an airplane, to support...
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