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August 12, 2010
"Homeless migrants from eastern Europe in London who are ...
"Homeless migrants from eastern Europe in London who are unable to get benefits have become so impoverished that they are eating rats and drinking lethal cocktails of alcoholic handwash… 'We have come across homeless Poles in north London barbecuing rats. We have to explain to them that unlike the rats back home, in London they would be full of poison…'"
Tortura
A glorious find from A Sound Awareness, who say:
Here's an odd record. Basically it's a recording of people screaming, moaning, crying, groaning and laughing while being whipped. It was released in 1965 which is odd in itself. What is even odder is that some people will pay a lot of money to own a copy...
SF MAGAZINES: ASIMOV'S E-Sales
In the comments to the SF MAGAZINES: 2009 Circulation Numbers post, ASIMOV'S editor Sheila Williams kindly expands on her magazine's electronic sales, and I'm pushing her comment to its own post. Sheila Williams:
Asimov's has a solid presence on Amazon's list of best-selling Kindle magazines (usually hovering between the 13th and 17th places). Electronic subscription sales continue to grow. Amazon doesn't allow any magazine-The New Yorker, Time, The Economist-to carry advertising in their...
August 11, 2010
August 10, 2010
The New York Moon: a fantastic piece of web design for an...
The New York Moon: a fantastic piece of web design for an internet radio suite.
SF MAGAZINES: 2009 Circulation Figures
Ah yes. The brick that is the new edition of Gardner Dozois' YEAR'S BEST SF sits on the desk next to me. Containing, as ever, its fascinating Summation of the year in question: 2009. Which includes sales and circulation figures on SF magazines.
I've been posting these numbers annually for a few years now. Longtime readers will recall that they tend to illustrate the creeping death of the SF print fiction magazine. In some years, it's not so creeping, either.
The Previous Two Posts
Were sent from my iPhone 3GS. Hence "sent from my outboard brain," which is the sig I use to differentiate email origins. That's also why they look a bit unstyled and undressed.
Both posts were material found in Reeder, which is an RSS app that connects to my Google Reader account. I select and copy the bit of the post I need (including images) and, from the right-hand action menu I select "mail link." That pops up an email window with an auto-filled title and an auto-copied link to the ...
Cafe Kaput Music
Jon Brooks, the man behind The Advisory Circle, has just launched his own digital only record label Cafe Kaput. The first title out of the bag is the marvellous Music in the Classroom by D.D. Denham.
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