Get excited and make things
My 2009 is pretty booked up. Work to do and a wedding in less than five weeks mean that I don’t have too much time left over to breathe or eat or sleep or anything. 2010, however, is the year that I do this: Courtesy of Matt Jones, via Warren Ellis.
Just… wow
A lolly, or a portal to another dimention? Originally uploaded by zoetica Via Warren "I am a plague wearing human skin" Ellis. See that? That’s the kind of stuff I want to do. Bring on 2010.
Unbook
Interesting concept: The Unbook; the book as Open Source Software (or Litware, I suppose). Wonder if it would work for a Novel. I have a migraine so I’ve not the brains to think about this much right now. Warren Ellis did some thinking already.
At the request on one Sir Warren Ellis
I'm posting this to remind all you good people about FreakAngels, a weekly web comic written by King Ellis and drawn by Paul Duffield. It's updated every Friday at noon UK time (UTC +1, if you need to know). This week's episode is #15. That'll be all. Go back to your existences.
Gardening advice from Warren Ellis
Because, you know, what else do you expect to read at quarter past one in the morning: You see, the Earth's natural tendency is to fuck with you. This is the secret of gardening. The planet does not want to give you anything. Mulching the soil is like waterboarding Gaia. It's the Human saying to [...]
Dear lazyweb
I can't be bothered to comment on this story (I'm busy finding new ways to not do things that I should be doing like tidying the office). But it's okay, because Warren Ellis has already done so, and that's far more entertaining.
Be afraid
Warren Ellis worries about the dogs taking over. Me being a country boy, I worry about the cows. From the BBC (link): A Sussex policeman has been discharged from hospital after an attack by about 50 cows left him with four broken ribs and a punctured lung. I'll be eyeing the cows outside the back [...]
From Euston, with Love
I'm writing this from the concourse at London Euston, where I'm perched atop my luggage waiting for my train home to Lancaster. I wouldn't have been perched atop what is, let me tell you, a damn uncomfortable bag were it not for the fact that I rather over-prepared for the lack of a Victoria Line [...]
End of the Line
Warren Ellis, and later Wil Wheaton, linked to an amazing photo essay, End of the Line. It's an awe-inspiring set of photos from the beaches of Chittagong, Bangladesh, where half of the world's supertankers get disassembled.
Bullet points, etc.
I've been saving up a couple of things to post. No, that's a lie. I've been meaning to post about a couple of things but keep finding other things to do. So I'm going to do bullet points instead for the sake of brevity. I might expand upon them later. Flickr is playing silly buggers [...]
The whole LJ thing
Readers will probably by now have heard about the whole shitstorm that's happening regarding Warriors For Innocence and SixApart/LiveJournal at the moment. If you haven't, this BoingBoing post summarises pretty much the whole thing, along with giving responses from Warren Ellis which I'll get to in a second. Whilst I don't have any children and [...]
