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Links for 2010-09-21

Data clippers set sail to enhance future planetary missions
"A new golden age of sailing may be about to begin – in space. Future missions to explore the outer planets could employ fleets of 'data-clippers', manoeuvrable spacecraft equipped with solar sails, to ship vast quantities of scientific data to back Earth." A sort of early ACCELERANDO vibe.
(tags:space computing )KANYE WEST, MEDIA CYBORG
"Media lets you clone pieces of yourself and send them out into the world to have conversations on...

DC Wildstorm Ceases

Huh. Heard this was coming, but, still… it's a weird thing for me to read, and a weird thing to do.

After taking the comics scene by storm nearly 20 years ago, the WildStorm Universe titles will end this December. In this soft marketplace, these characters need a break to regroup and redefine what made them once unique and cutting edge. While these will be the final issues published under the WildStorm imprint, it will not be the last we will see of many of these heroes. We, along with Geoff...

Crucifairies

By my friend Anna Young Kelland:

Mythological artwork in a dark vein. Handmade sculpture, painting and mixed medium based on mythical and fantasy themes. Crucifairies, Fetish Fairies and Spooky Sprites are free-standing or wall-mounted sculptures and art dolls putting otherworldly creatures into unusual contexts. Some may be quite innocent, others are somewhat twisted. Clinging to a bottle of beer, naked in chains, nailed to a cross, or dead in their coffins. Paintings range from dreamlike...

Two New Items At The IEU Store

A tile coaster.

And a framed tile.

Nice interview with China Mieville by Laurie Penny."As ...

Nice interview with China Mieville by Laurie Penny.

"As readers and thinkers, we may want to celebrate some aspects of storytelling, and we may find some of it dangerous," he says. "Even if you say the human mind is addicted to storytelling – well, humans get addicted to all sorts of things that aren't good for them."

(Also amusing to see Laurie, who is basically Yelena Rossini from TRANSMETROPOLITAN, being so professional and restrained.)

Station Ident: Fallen, Getting Up

Matt Jones of BERG with "windfarm ivory" at the Centre for Alternative Technology.

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Anton

Our three cats were basically rescues: we bought them to get them out of a shitty garden centre that was storing them on cold dirty concrete with an upturned rabbit run over them and no food that we could see. The smallest of the three ended up being rushed to the vet the next day, who told us that if we'd waited another 24 hours he'd be dead. I was writing a character who was small and crap, at the time, and so this small crap cat got his name: Anton.

Anton lived a little over sixteen more ...

Saturday Night Notes

Regulars will have noticed two things. One, I haven't been around much, and two, comments are gone.

Second one first. Comments here have, by and large, been a bit dull for a while. Some nice surprises sometimes, and some smart people, but also too often falling into the "I don't really want this on my website" bucket. This isn't going to fall into the slightly barbed mea culpa about switching comments off that the act seems to usually entail — no discussion of the "blogs are...

FREAKANGELS 0109

MASSIVELY RAMIFIED

Spinning Flowers EP by Wizards

Spinning Flowers EP by Wizards