Back on the scene like a linky machine!
You gotta know this one got me excited: Canadian history cartoonist Kate Beaton finally gets a proper website.
This is amazing – a transcription of the story conference that decided how Raiders of the Lost Ark was going to go. You will never see Indy’s relationship with Marian the same way again.
Kim Stanley Robinson, noted SF author whose masterwork Red Mars got linky here a couple weeks back, writes about the climate crisis: Time to end the multigenerational Ponzi scheme. This is real deal thinking.
A really interesting looking free game is described over at Xorg. I haven’t played it yet myself but I have downloaded it, which by itself is pretty unusual for me. Check it out!
authonomy, a Harper Collins publishing site where users post their masterpieces and other users rate the excerpts, top-rated stuff getting bumped to where the editors can attend to it… This is a really cunning mix of crowdsourcing and PR that might signal some interesting times ahead.
The Grizzled Dog creates his own supernatural mythology around dubious behaviour and stealth photography in Bangkok.
It has been a good year for gigs, not that I’ve been at any of them; the latest to rock the socks of the gig-going crowds was Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls, who shared a little ditty she’d written about our own fair city:
Its no wonder everyone loves her.
And finally… girl whose YouTube channel is full of acoustic Bad Religion covers gets close while the band do a soundcheck and sings with them.