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Who I Am And Where I Am (March 2010)

My name's Warren Ellis. I write comics, graphic novels, journalism and anything else that people pay money for.

I'm the writer of the graphic novel RED, currently being made into a film starring Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and a shedload of other famous people. I'm the writer of the GRAVEL graphic novels, under development for film by Legendary Pictures. I also wrote the novel CROOKED LITTLE VEIN.

I write here almost every day. A collection of the writing...

Your Doomed World: Will Smell Vaguely Of Old Farts, Scorched Earth

Jamais Cascio:

A piece in the latest issue of Science shows that there's a considerable amount of methane (CH4) coming from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, where it had been trapped under the permafrost. There's as much coming out from one small section of the Arctic ocean as from all the rest of the oceans combined. This is officially Not Good.

Here's why: methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, significantly more powerful than carbon dioxide. There are billions of tons of methane trapped...

CHINESE WHISPERS UCHRONAL COVER REMODEL: 2000AD Prog 1

So, on my message board, I run weeklyish art challenges for the amusement of the artistic community therein. This week, I decided to change things around, and posted the following:

You are an artist/designer. You have to put together the cover for the first issue of a weekly science-fiction anthology comic called 2000AD.

You don't know much about what's in it. You've been given the following pieces of information to include on the cover somehow:

"featuring the new DAN DARE"

"M.A.C.H. 1 – his...

Station Ident: Nnnnng

This is warren ellis dot com and i am very tired

(via Wil)

Night Music: Thunderbird Road

By Robin Guthrie, from the album IMPERIAL.

G'night.

The Black Blood Of The Earth

Want a coffee that requires an LD50 statement? The Direktor's continuing experiments in making the supercondensed, superpowered coffee he's named The Black Blood Of The Earth never fail to amuse, and the latest update made me smile. He has created coffee that now breaks Science itself.

Subject 3: had several sips of Batch 3 prior to breakfast with two cups of Baker's Square coffee and followed it with the remainder of the Batch 3 mug upon return. She entered a state of hyperactivity...

FLURB #9 Released

Probably the best sf magazine on the web.  Featuring new work by fellow-travellers Paul Di Filippo and Kek.

T-shirt Of The Week #014: FAILED TO DIE

TOTW is basically a joke that Ariana and I pull each week in our joint guise as the International Electrophonic Unit. Basically, we take some of the stupider things I've said on Twitter and elsewhere, often in a state of extreme alcoholic refreshment or severe sleep deprivation, and put them on a t-shirt. Ariana set up a Cafe Press store (because this is a joke and engaging with a serious maker of t-shirts would be less funny to us), and… well, once a week, here we are.

Through this website...

Links for 2010-03-08

Vitamin D crucial to activating immune defenses
Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that Vitamin D is crucial to activating our immune defenses and that without sufficient intake of the vitamin, the killer cells of the immune system – T cells – will not be able to react to and fight off serious infections in the body.
(tags:med )Ritalin boosts learning by increasing brain plasticity
Doctors treat millions of children with Ritalin every year to improve their ability to...

Station Ident: Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em

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(Marc Quinn's sculpture of Buck Angel photographed by Siege)