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1. Giant Electric Head, 2. Pumpkin Face, 3. Hello, Internet!, 4. Lenora in red by Austin Young, 5. pulling words out of thin air, 6. haunted hospital

Conan! What Is Best In Life?

"Weighted tentacle labia!"

Or not, frankly.

Note: "Conan!" links are rarely safe for conservative workplaces or your belief in human nature.

( Previously, on "Conan! What Is Best In Life?" )

Links for 2009-10-12

Crystal is one-way street for microwaves - tech - 12 October 2009 - New Scientist
"like a valve for light - the first material that transmits electromagnetic radiation in one direction only." A PHOTONIC CRYSTAL. I bet that's in a bad 50s sf novel somewhere.
(tags:sci tech )God is not the Creator, claims academic - Telegraph
"Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and author, claims the first sentence of Genesis "in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" is...

Immaterials

A new film by Timo Arnall for Touch and Jack Schulze for BERG. This is the final version of the raw footage Jack was showing me on his jesusphone at the WIRED UK launch gig (by which time I'd drunk at least one bottle of Irish whiskey).

There are 4 billion RFID tags in the world. They may soon outnumber the people. Readers and tags are increasingly embedded in the things and environments in which we live. How do readers see tags? When we imagine RFID and their invisible radio fields, what...

Station Ident: It's

Warren Ellis dot com. Good afternoon. Broadcasting commences.

(Image: Bethalynne Bajema)

Sunday Shuffle

Clearing the decks for tomorrow, let's see what's in the pipes tonight:

Remember when I said WIRED UK'S subeditors were having some kind of epileptic fit this month? Apparently they fell on Adam Greenfield's piece for the mag quite heavily, and so he is moved to present the unedited version of "Words On The Street" online:

Without necessarily considering the matter with any particular care, as individuals or societies, we have installed devices in our clothing, our buildings, our vehicles and...

Station Ident: Transmission Will Resume Shortly

Remember when there was a blog here? Haha. Yes. And now it's a lonely silent thing, innit? Alone and drifting on the internets.

(photo by Jack Schulze)

Yesterday was crazy for obvious reasons if you saw yesterday's post, plus a couple of deadline clusterfucks and a couple of emergency deadline crunches. And so nothing much has been happening here.

Transmission will resume Monday, in a high-traffic notebook/jotter/tumble style for a while, because my email and rss reader are full of stuff.

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I'm Writing A GRAVEL Screenplay, Yes

I haven't been cleared by Legendary Pictures to talk about this yet, but since the news made VARIETY this morning, I guess I can at least link it up:

Legendary Pictures plans to delve into the world of the occult with "Gravel," picking up the rights to the comicbook series created by Warren Ellis and published by Avatar Press.

Project revolves around the character William Gravel, a soldier in the British S.A.S. who uses his skills in dark magic to moonlight and battle supernatural beings for...

FREAKANGELS 0072

Concluding Volume 3.

The Etsy Thread

So the other day I asked people with Etsy stores to post to a thread on my message board, just because Xmas is coming up and I thought it'd be interesting.

This is the thread. More than a hundred responses and growing. So if you're stuck for Xmas gift ideas, and want to support small artisans, take a look.