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Quote Of The Day

And not in a good way.

Links for 2010-01-22

Human running speed of 35-40 mph may be biologically possible
"…n enticing view of how the biological limits might be pushed back beyond the nearly 28 miles per hour speeds achieved by Bolt to speeds of perhaps 35 or even 40 miles per hour."
(tags:med bodymod )
Weird Tales for Winter
"Weird Tales for Winter is a collective hauntological experience to be broadcast over 8 days from 25th January 2010 on Resonance 104.4 FM."
(tags:radio music haunt )

FREAKANGELS 0083

Guess who's back.

notebook 22jan10

* "reputation economy" is a particularly '00s thing to be thinking about, but it's been on my mind tonight.

* reputation economy is the "but" in "he/she's a dick, but…" Look at the shit Cory gets on and around BoingBoing when he posts about his work; and yet the material he hunts down and brings to the table there buys him (reputation) (indulgence) (kudos)

* and in turn, when Cory/Xeni/operator directs the attention of the people at the table to something Cory/Xeni/operator deems worthwile...

On Whitechapel Still…

Over at my message board, both myself and the editors of COILHOUSE magazine are still taking questions etc until the weekend.

SHIVERING SANDS: An Update

As of Jan 19th 2010, these are the sales on SHIVERING SANDS, the POD collection of essays and bits that we released on Nov 4 2009.

Shivering Sands Print: 664

Shivering Sands Download: 44

Total: 708

Now, I'm going to forestall the sperglord filibuster that "a PDF isn't an ebook" by saying "shut the fuck up" and also that we offered it as a "download edition," and didn't optimise it for whatever ebook-reader you have today. Most people don't have ebook readers.

Profit has been made, but...

Bizarre Moonlight

This was on one of my favourite records of last year. Just found a youtube transfer of it. And it's the time of day for relaxing and dreaming for five minutes. Therefore, from INCAPULCO, I give you the tropical hypnagogia of High Wolf's "Bizarre Moonlight."

notebook 20jan10

(Catherine Kennedy)

(Jessica McCourt)

(via Xplanes)

(Unknown Haitian student photographer, Young Haitian Documentary Photography Group, 2007, via Siege)

(from JUDEX, 1963)

Days Like These

This is out in North American comics stores today, apparently.

Good morning, sinners. This is warren ellis dot com.

A Condition Of Magazines

The POD-magazine service MagCloud does an interesting sidestep around the "we have broken your business, now we want your machines" situation that the internet and clever people like Really Interesting Group present to newspaper printers (who are also, of course, a distribution solution — Newspaper Club newspapers get slung in the back of a van on a pallet right from the printers' back gates). MagCloud is a Hewlett Packard initiative, and the position they take is "we will make the machines ...