Warren, you’ll be missed (original). He saw that James Bond film, he saw his last album hit the shelves, and he saw his grandchildren born. I guess it was time. Shadows are falling and I’m running out of breath Keep me in your heart for a while
White Wolf is suing Sony Pictures over Underworld. Just thought you’d like to know. Anyone read the Nancy Collins story involved?
Clayton Cramer is fairly unhappy with Amazon because they’re selling a book entitled Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers. It is an apology piece for pedophilia, and I feel pretty comfortable assuming it’s utterly vile. I also don’t think Amazon should stop selling it, because of their position as a huge bookstore. Cutting off the channels by which a book reaches its readers is not strictly speaking censorship, but it’s a kissing cousin. This will become less of an issue as the Internet becomes a better medium for transmitting information, but at the moment I think a bookstore the size of Amazon still has an obligation to sell books without discrimination, however justified that discrimination might be. ...
The Hugo Awards ceremony was last night, and Locus provides us with the winners. I’m surprised by the Best Novel; I enjoyed Hominids, but it was a very strong year for this category and I would have given The Scar the nod. Novel Bones of the Earth, Michael Swanwick Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer Kiln People, David Brin The Scar, China Miéville The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson Novella ...
This morning, Warren Ellis said: It’s Wednesday. I want to see the world, please. Send me a photo from your futurephone or webcam. Send it to dadatag@aol.com, which is an email address I have created for the purpose (dadatag = easy to key in on a phone). I will show what I receive here. (This will even work for Sprint PCS phones.) Show me something. And people are. Start here (original), and work forwards. Pictures of the world. Sparse prose, tying it together. ...
The BBC just announced that it was going to put its archives online, for free. Danny O’Brien has the best post yet (original) on the announcement, with thoughts on what that might mean, and what the problems could be. I like the theory that it could be a Creative Commons project.
Morning quick-links, morning quick-links… possibly I should get a sidebar. Dunno. Anyhow, Asian Historical Architecture is 6500 pictures of, well, Asian historical architecture arranged in an easy to browse format. Check out, for example, the Patuxai in Laos.
Well, it’s not as good as the Walken original (original), but if you’re going to remix Fatboy Slim songs with stick figures, this is the way to go (original). I can no longer believe that Flash is evil.
CNN ran a nice story on Warren Zevon (original) the other day. The new CD comes out Tuesday; there’s a VH1 special airing 10 PM on Sunday, Eastern time. Set your TiVos.
Matrix: Revolutions trailer. Available now. The site is so hammered it isn’t worth trying, though. Ah. Bittorrent link here. That’s better.