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October 24, 2009
Things I'm Thinking About Today
Some of these have been seen here before. I'm assembling, trying to get it all in front of me and see what it is. This is like the bit when Rolf Harris paints live on tv, and there's just a bunch of random marks on the canvas, and he winks at the camera and says "Can you tell what it is yet?" And I can't. But the marks — or, at least, the pre-treated canvas before I start making marks — are kind of interesting. There's no process to the creative process. It's just trying a bunch of stuff and ...
October 23, 2009
October 22, 2009
Station Ident: This Is Sort Of Warren Ellis Dot Com
Well… it is, but I have a fair amount of stuff to slog through today, so I'm ignoring this place until tonight. I'll keep twitter on, probably, and you can always send me interesting materials, nice things and dirty pictures at my "dump" email address, which is warrenellis [at:] gmail dot com.
Slightly mental drawing below is by Annie Wu.
October 21, 2009
Links for 2009-10-21
"The men, for reasons that seemed good to them at the time, got some bees hooked on cocaine and then turned them out to find some sugar. According to the boffins, cocaine turns good bees - productive members of the hive - into untrustworthy scumbags…"
(tags:sci drugs wtf ignobel )Brain transplant bird points to origin of communication - life - 20 October 2009 - New Scientist
"Creating chimeras with the higher brain of a songbird and the hindbrain of a non-singer may...
Station Ident: It Is Barely
It is barely alive. It is Wednesday. It is warren ellis dot com. Morning. Look at this.
October 20, 2009
Links for 2009-10-20
"Chen, a self-styled rabbi, allegedly influenced members of his flock to abuse their children in order to ?correct their corrupt souls.?"
(tags:crime cult fucking+scum )
Churches denounce African children as ?witches?
"His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat…"
(tags:crime cult fucking+scum kill+them+all )
Breathe Deep And Let Go Of Things
If you're just a bit too zen for Matt Jones' GET EXCITED AND MAKE THINGS, then maybe you need Adam Greenfield's BREATHE DEEP AND LET GO OF THINGS shirt. "All proceeds will be directed to Human Rights Watch and a mixture of Buddhist charities," Adam says.
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Escalante
ESCALANTE: Matt Webb for BERG gave the keynote at Web Directions on 8 October 2009. A 50-minute mp3 at the link.
The long run to the turn of the millennium got us preoccupied with conclusions. The Internet is finally taken for granted. The iPhone is finally ubiquitous computing come true. Let's think not of ends, but dawns: it's not that we're on the home straight of ubicomp, but the beginning of a century of smart matter. It's not about fixing the Web, but making a springboard for new...
BREW DOG: Equity For Punks
I've mentioned the fine beers purveyed by the craft booze mechanics at BrewDog a few times here. This just turned up in my email. They're selling shares in the company:
….we are offering you the chance to officially join the team and own part of our company, our brewery and our beers. Welcome to Equity for Punks.
We are looking for 10,000 BrewDog loving individuals to purchase shares in our company. This is your chance to buy into the BrewDog dream and share in our vision.
We believe the best...
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