Warren Ellis's Blog, page 311

SHIVERING SANDS: Ebook

Well, a bunch of people asked for SHIVERING SANDS as a download edition. So we've turned it into a PDF and put it on sale for USD $7, a little less than half the price of the print edition. And you can find it here at the IEU/Lulu storefront.

Night Music: Xela

Discovered Xela just the other day. If you come across an EP by Xela called THE DIVINE, grab it. This is from the album THE DEAD SEA:

SUPERGOD #2: Preview

Out from this Wednesday, several pages up for your inspection at this link.

Music I Liked In 2009 [3]

Third in a possibly infinite list of music wot I liked this year:

"Love Is A Wave," Crystal Stilts: I don't care what it's derivative of, I don't care what you think, I loved this and I consider it one of the great pop records of the year. You can disagree with me, but at the end of the argument I will be Right and you will be Severely Bruised. There is a Narrative Purity to this record. It says: what if the Libertines, that great music-press delusion of the 00s, that band that only made o...

On Whitechapel This Evening (30nov09)

On my internet shithole today:

* REMAKE/REMODEL: Mysta Of The Moon – return of the artist game thread, all are welcome

* Changing SF Magazines' Business Theory – I didn't start this, I swear

* 2009 Music Retrospective – your favourites, this year?

* HAPPY()SAD

* Johnston & Mitten's WASTELAND: #1 Free Online

* The Starry Wisdom Of Warren 30nov09

T-Shirt Of The Week #006: STAB&STAB

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 2009-11-29

"The 55-year-old man from a small town in the central province of Quang Nam opened up his wife's grave in 2004, moulded clay around the remains to give the figure of a woman, put clothes on her and then placed her in his bed, Vietnamnet.vn said"
(tags:nutters )'Alien spies live among us' says Bulgarian gov space boffin ? The Register
"A boffin at the Bulgarian national Space Research Institute has stated that not only are...

To Buy Templesmith's New Comic CHOKER

Print, fill out and deliver to your local comics shop:

Testing Zoundry Raven

Testing Zoundry Raven, a desktop blogging client. Using an image by Emma Vieceli to do so. You can find the print for sale here. Post2Blog never did drag and drop very well. I'd like a desktop client that was as smooth and easy as Tumblweed for Tumblr, to be honest, but there doesn't seem to be one that clever and slick for Wordpress.

If the bumf is to believed, then swiping this image of Emma doing a bookstore PA should just paste in here:

(Sorry, Em, I'm using you as an experimental animal...

Time For A New Laptop

I don't normally do this, because it usually turns into a clusterfuck. But the fine little Thinkpad X61 that Avatar Press picked up for me when my main computer died horribly last year… well, it's been worked very hard, and is starting to cough a little blood. It's also buzzing intermittently, after the last wave of Windows over-the-air updates made it do a fainting goat impression and then turn itself off.

I have, however, quite quickly gotten used to working on a laptop rather than the...