Warren Ellis's Blog, page 312

NEXTWAVE: You Are Shitting Me

No, really. This isn't serious, right?

I mean, the book got cancelled.

Ariana Does Black Friday

Your home shopping list, by Ariana, which saves me having to type out pretty much the same list.  Did you see Wil Wheaton's new mug idea?  Right here.

FREAKANGELS 0077

Fighting Fridays since 2008.

Links for 2009-11-25

The Scrap Shop by hopelarson on Etsy
"I've set up an Etsy storefront to sell my comic pages and illustrations" - Hope Larson, brilliant graphic novelist
(tags:comics shopping )

For Your Delectation

Wil Wheaton has a message for your dreams tonight:

Links for 2009-11-24

Intel Wants Brain Implants in Its Customers' Heads by 2020 | Popular Science
"scientists anticipate that consumers will adapt quickly to the idea, and indeed crave the freedom of not requiring a keyboard, mouse, or remote control for surfing the Web or changing channels."
(tags:sci tech neuro )World around us: Experimental Soviet "flying tank"
"The Antonov A-40 Krylya Tanka was a Soviet attempt to allow a tank to glide into a battlefield after being towed aloft by an airplane, to support...

Paul Pope

Life without Paul Pope art is no life at all.

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IGNITION CITY TPB 2010

According to Forbidden Planet International, the collected IGNITION CITY will be out in February 2010, and apparently it'll look like this:

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Links for 2009-11-24

African conflicts spurred by warming - environment - 23 November 2009 - New Scientist
"Africa is poised to experience a surge in civil wars, causing nearly 400,000 additional battle deaths by 2030 ? all as a direct result of rising temperatures."
(tags:war pol eco )Nicholas Szczepaniak ? A Defensive Architecture | Interactive Architecture dot Org
"Set in the Blackwater Estuary, Essex, his allegorical and provocative defensive architectures envisage the construction of a set of austere coastal...

Music I Liked In 2009 [2]

Continuing my list (and yes, there will be more of these posts to follow, so don't tell me what I've left off this list):

MONOLITHS AND DIMENSIONS, Sunn O))): the more I listen to this immense album, the more I think of it as four movements transitioning from the pagan to the organised church through an apocalyptic collapse into some awful, barren post-civilisational doomspace that fades to become a weirdly sylvan, almost innocent place. Of course, that could just be me. Never discount the p...