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Sailing Stones

Infographic by Danny Jones, found via Kitsune Noir.

Small Victories Continue

Sarah Sharp:

Solar Stormwatch

What a brilliant pitch. I suspect the hand of Fiona Romeo in this. Solar Stormwatch:

Solar scientists need you!

Help them spot explosions on the Sun and track them across space to Earth. Your work will give astronauts an early warning if dangerous solar radiation is headed their way. And you could make a new scientific discovery.

While Being Choked By A Golden Snake

This is my friend Ryan Keely posing with her preferred plane reading before boarding at Vegas airport. You know it makes sense.

This is warren ellis dot com. Good morning

Links for 2010-02-22

U B U W E B – Film & Video: Beth B – Thanatopsis (1991)
"Beth B, in collaboration with legendary downtown performance artist/musician Lydia Lunch, creates a chilling yet poetic vision of despairing nihilism — literally, a "meditation on death." In this noirishly rendered narrative, a woman negotiates the banalities of life. In her hypnotic voiceover monologue, the narrator (Lunch) repeats "Annie get your gun," a warning of impending doom. "
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T-shirt Of The Week #012: DISEASE

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.

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Station Ident: So Cold

Why is it so cold in this country? (Well, it's probably not, it's probably just me trying to adjust to British weather after being out of the country for a week. BUT STILL.)

This is a pretty picture by Matt Brooker. This is warrenellisdotcom, and today we are shivering and throwing things on fires. Good morning.

Thought For The Night

From Jhonen Vasquez:

I want a Flintstones-like garbage disposal, or, in this case, because of this horrific cupcake I ate, a creature I can vomit into.

Good night.

Heavy Winged

John Twells (Xela) just mentioned them on twitter, so I looked them up, and then I found this:

The MySpace page I linked also has lots to listen to. It's like, remember how you didn't really like deconstructed experimental postrock anymore? Well, actually, yeah, you do.

WOLFSKIN: HUNDREDTH DREAM

Avatar Press asked me for another WOLFSKIN story, since apparently the original WOLFSKIN book sold quite well. As it happened, I had the synopsis for an unsold fantasy GN sitting in a folder. I rewrote, expanded and broke it down a bit, and then let Avatar hand it to Mike Wolfer to turn into scripts in much the same process we use on GRAVEL. Gianluca Pagliarani, the superb illustrator of AETHERIC MECHANICS and IGNITION CITY, was brought on to draw it. Avatar tell me that this is the last ...