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POD books by friends include: HACKING THE EARTH by Jamais...

POD books by friends include: HACKING THE EARTH by Jamais Cascio; THE FAST FICTION CHALLENGE by Lee Barnett; and a few books and audiobooks =Wil+Wheaton&fSearchData[accountId:]=3731770&showingSubPanels=advancedSearchPanel_title_creator&showStorefrontLink=">by Wil Wheaton, all of which I recommend.

The Naked President

So a bunch of people online told me I needed to find a copy of Brian Bendis and Mike Deodato's DARK AVENGERS #16, the final issue of that Marvel series. So I did. And in the back, in a Bendis-written afterword to the series and the huge chain of Marvel event projects Bendis created and that it concludes, I find this:

I've joked in the past that I redefined the Marvel universe by doing that sequence in THUNDERBOLTS where Norman Osborn gives a seemingly endless eight-page monologue about how he ...

Links for 2010-05-12

InfraNet Lab – Re-Link: The Physcial Network of Data
"The global network of submarine cables as it existed in 1901"
(tags:comms maps )Artwork #12: Loud Wax – THIS IS WEIRD VIBRATIONS // the politics of sound
"This recording was made walking counterclockwise around the grounds of Wat Phrathat Hariphunchai, a Thai Buddhist temple built in the late 9th century. The temple is in the city of Lamphun, not too far from Chiang Mai. Its highlights are a giant golden umbrella and a purported relic of...

The Black Blood Of The Earth: Early Results

The Black Blood Of The Earth is the supercoffee distilled by Herr Direktor Funranium, as mentioned here passim. A bottle was recently trafficked to me by covert means — right now, it's only available in the Bay Area, though Herr Direktor is working on that.

The day it arrived, it went straight into the fridge, hissing slightly and frightening the other bottles. The next day, I had an early start, had to head into London — and found that I was out of energy drinks and was too fucked up to...

Note to self: when blogging my mention of Cat Valente's P...

Note to self: when blogging my mention of Cat Valente's POD book, Bruce Sterling tags it with "Saw it on Warren Ellis's blog because he seems persistently interested in such things." Reconsider exactly why I'm persistently interested in such things beyond previous statements. Time has passed, after all.

Links for 2010-05-12

Slow Cinema Vs Fast Films: The Pinocchio Theory

(tags:film )

Meltdown Comics are saying on Twitter that ASTONISHING X-...

Meltdown Comics are saying on Twitter that ASTONISHING X-MEN: XENOGENESIS #1 has sold out already (presumably at distributor level) and is going to a second printing.

IRON MAN: EXTREMIS Motion Comic – Episode 3 Preview

At Flick Cast.

podcastery 12may10

My current capture. Still not great. All good stuff, but I require MOAR more. Becoming kind of amazed at how hard it is to sort the wheat from the chaff, as it were. Also, that bit in shiTunes that finds artwork for these podcasts seems to have broken — podcasts that had art last week do not have art this week.

(I am using iTunes because I have an iPhone, and the only way to buy and sync apps is with iTunes. So I'm using its podcast system for convenience, rather than swapping out for Media...

Astonishing X-Pain

So I was writing ASTONISHING X-MEN. I was writing a serial therein called GHOST BOX. I had also started writing the next serial, XENOGENESIS, so we didn't lose time when GHOST BOX ended. And then there were problems with GHOST BOX, and apparently the only solution was for me to write a short spin-off piece called GHOST BOXES. And then there were problems with XENOGENESIS, and apparently the only solution was for me to write a new serial to temporarily replace it called EXOGENETIC. And...