Some legal free books to download at Suvudu, including Kim Stanley Robinson’s magisterial work of hard SF, Red Mars. Available in .pdf at present, other formats to come.
Everyone’s education into the ridiculous scheme that is the global financial system continues. Three great, fun lessons this week: first, a fun and helpful visualisation of the crisis of credit:
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
Second, the failure of (you guessed it) the U.S. biz media, entertainingly skewered by (you also guessed this bit) Jon Stewart at The Daily Show:
Third, Vanity Fair writes an amazing piece about Iceland, the country that collapsed itself. You’ll be amazed by how much is explained when you hear that Icelandic men like to barge into you in the street.
This month’s MySpace Dark Horse Presents has not one but two stories I commend to your attention:
an exclusive Achewood strip – in colour! And also an exclusive strip by Kate Beaton – in colour! This is the good stuff right here.
If you know of Watchmen, you DO NOT want to miss this: Watchmen as a Saturday Morning Cartoon. So very funny and so very wrong.
I was also gonna linky to the new Ed Brubaker-written Zoe-Bell-starring free web TV Angel of Death, but it seems to have gone from Crackle even though the press release announcing it is still up all over the web. Huh. (Also featuring Lucy Lawless, apparently. Starring two Kiwi actresses then! Heh.)
And finally… somehow this is even creepier than it should be.