Warren Ellis's Blog, page 351
July 14, 2009
COILHOUSE 3 Nearly Here
Attend! Details of our favourite avant-decadent print fetish object can be found here at this electrical information-bridge. Click elegantly, spawn.
Places I Won't be Going Back To, #3359
So I can't light a cigarette in a bar in Arizona, but you can walk into one with a loaded gun, get completely trolleyed and be fully defended by a state law that doesn't remotely consider this a dangerous and inevitably tragic situation.
Around 80 people die by gunfire per day in the United States. That's about fifteen deaths per one hundred thousand people, per annum. In 2005, the number of children killed by gunfire would have filled 120 public school classrooms. Since 11 September 2001, som
The Shipping Forecast For Space
Nick Harkaway just turned this up on Twitter: hfradiospacewx. It's "Space Weather and Radio Propagation Information," as provided by these people, who apparently could use a dollar or two through Paypal to keep going.
It's complete gibberish to the untrained eye:
Warning (1591): Geomagnetic K-index of 4 expected… Solar Wind: 519 km/s @ 3.0 protons/cm3… Flares: 6h hi (none) 24h hi (none) …No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours…
It is, in fact, The Shipping Forecast for space.
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DO ANYTHING: 007
A shortish one this week, because next week's is a longish one, and there wasn't a better place to chop the piece. This one here contains some restatements and continuations of thoughts previously jotted down here:
…it's big, and mythical (self-mythologising), and intensely interesting because it denotes the presence of an active and playful imagination trying to rewrite and redress its own environment and process…
Station Ident: Back
Site's been down for the last several hours. No idea why. But here we are again. This is Warren Ellis Dot Com. Good afternoon.
(the brilliant Dave Walsh)
July 13, 2009
Links for 2009-07-13
toxic superoxides!
(tags:sci weird bodymod )
Spillway: Major Project 1: Care of Wooden Floors
Will Wiles' book: "I am not very good at exciting one-sentence summaries: In the past I have described it as "an episode of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em written by Franz Kafka", "a sort of satire on minimalist interior design" and "a little like Mon Oncle vs Lost In Translation"."
(tags:people books )
Sam Russo
New music from the guy described as "punk folk" by rocksellout.com. Me being far gassier, I said of his stuff: "Just him and a guitar - an angrier, wittier Billy Bragg is one way to approximate his style, though that's far from exact, and he's a lot more original than that."
The four new ones are on the top of the player. If you haven't heard Sam before, check out "The Dirty 13" lower down afterwards, it's my favourite of his older stuff.
Trixie Bedlam On The Lam
My great friend Sarah Sharp, who operates under the name Trixie Bedlam from time to time, has a project. You've seen her work here before: she's an exhibited art photographer, among many other things. She's hit 36 American states out of 50, and she'd like to do the rest, and get a book out of it. And she's been accepted by the Kickstarter program to set up a pledge system for it. It's really very simple: you pledge a little money, she makes Kickstarter's nut and they fund the project, and she
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