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Bookmarks for 2011-06-05

Philip Taylor Kramer – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Philip Taylor Kramer (July 12, 1952 – February 12, 1995) was a bass guitar player for the rock group Iron Butterfly during the 1970s. After this he obtained a night school degree in aerospace engineering, worked on the MX missile guidance system for a contractor of the US Department of Defense and later in the computer industry on fractal compression, facial recognition systems, and advanced communications. His disappearance on February 12, 1995 caused a mystery lasting for years."
(tags:weird 60pp )

I do actually feel bad about typo-ing DC's current event ...

I do actually feel bad about typo-ing DC's current event comic Flashpoint as Fleshlight in an email earlier today.

Not least because in my head all these comics now have titles like Fleshlight Legion Of Doom, Fleshlight Emperor Aquaman and World Of Fleshlight now.

I do not need a world with Fleshlight Emperor Aquaman in it.

Molly Crabapple's Week In Hell

I'll be writing the foreword for the documentation of this fairly demented project, for reasons that will become clear when the eventual book is produced.  Molly Crabapple's Week In Hell:

To celebrate my 28th birthday, I'm renting a room, locking myself inside for five days, covering the walls with paper, and filling every inch of that paper with art.  I might go insane, or it might be awesome.  I'm inviting you along for the ride.

Bookmarks for 2011-06-05

CERN physicists trap antihydrogen atoms for more than 16 minutes
"Antimatter is a puzzle because it should have been produced in equal amounts with normal matter during the Big Bang that created the universe 13.6 billion years ago. Today, however, there is no evidence of antimatter galaxies or clouds, and antimatter is seen rarely and for only short periods, for example during some types of radioactive decay before it annihilates in a collision with normal matter."
(tags:sci )

Nordic Interstitial Thresholds: 8

Filth… by Nordic Interstitial Thresholds on Mixcloud

Bookmarks for 2011-06-03

CASSINI MISSION on Vimeo
"The footage in this little film was captured by the hardworking men and women at NASA with the Cassini Imaging Science System." This is amazing. There's the germs of whole new aesthetics in here. (crossref: video glitch)
(tags:space video )

I must say, it was lovely to have been able to sign five ...

I must say, it was lovely to have been able to sign five or six of these at MCM Expo last week.  Still avalable, of course.

(I've just noticed that lots of people have been very kind about it at Goodreads. Thank you.)

Bookmarks for 2011-06-02

Icon's "Rethink": turning receipts into 'paper apps' – Blog – BERG
"We think the humble receipt could be something like a paper "app" and be valuable in small and playful ways."
(tags:papernet design design+fiction )

Judge Dredd Megazine Leaks The SVK Cover

Sort of.

This is the June 2011 issue, out now, and, as you can see, it features a lengthy interview with my old mate and SVK artist, D'Israeli, aka the sainted Matt Brooker and one of my most trusted collaborators.

Si Spurrier, New Whitechapel Barman

FREAKANGELS concludes in ten or eleven weeks or so.  People have asked what will happen to the FREAKANGELS online community, Whitechapel, at that time.

Si Spurrier, writer of Avatar Press' next webcomic CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE, arrived today at Whitechapel to begin the handover to the new regime.

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