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February 4, 2010
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"There is a growing sense that the properties of the universe are best described not by the laws that govern matter but by the laws that govern information."
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Station Ident: Bugger Me, It's
Warren Ellis dot com. Good afternoon. And this is the work of my "friend" Chip Zdarsky.
You're welcome.
February 3, 2010
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"Iran has launched a rocket into orbit carrying what state-owned Al-Alam televison describes as an "experimental capsule". The Kavoshgar 3 (Explorer) rocket has a cargo of live animals…" Ahmadinejad may be an evil prick, but his black, kinky sense of humour is undeniable. Obama just cut the nuts off NASA, and Iran (it claims) puts a capsule in orbit.
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I Think Of Dean Moriarty
This is the cover to the first edition of ON THE ROAD I ever owned. Which I thought of, which I always think of, because I'm on the road again next week. First, I have a couple of days in London for sekrit meetingz. Then I'm on a plane to Toronto, to spend a day or two on the set of RED.
Being on the set of a shoot is a bit odd. Everyone's very nice to you because they've been told you're the author of the source material. No-one's quite sure why you're there, or what to say to you. After ...
A Communique From Moon Wiring Club
I occasionally receive strange email notes from Moon Wiring Club, fine purveyors of confusing English electronic music. This one turned up today:
Hello Warren,
Hope you are well.
Did you know, that in 1983, ASDA, the well-known supermarket chain, commissioned several musicians to provide 70min music mixes to 'enhance instore customer experience'?
Of course you did!
Well, anyway, this project was, sadly abandoned after unusual reactions were witnessed within a test group.
However…
The fabled...
Yeah, Me Too
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February 2, 2010
Kit
Working on an episode of FREAKANGELS and a WIRED UK column about human spaceflight that will probably get a bit shouty, this evening. Around midnight I'm going to switch to something else. I have a shitload of travel coming up, and for a chunk of a month the only writing I'm going to be doing is on a netbook on planes, on a netbook in hotel rooms if I'm lucky (and not asleep), and, if I'm very very lucky, in paper notebooks in dive bars.
(Because, you know what, Steve? iPads look very...
Derek Chatwood
Derek's illustrations are always entertaining, sometimes surreal, sometimes revelatory. Here's today's, complete with his caption quoted below:
Remember Ultraman? Remember how he had that thing where he could grow really large to fight monsters, but only for three minutes, and then he shrunk again?
Turns out he was stuck with that deadline even when there weren't any monsters.
Sometimes surreal, sometimes revelatory… and, yes, sometimes dick jokes. But very well drawn ones.
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