- The Tearoom of Despair: Last night The Invisibles saved my life (24-month countdown remix)
If you have not read the Invisibles then you should have. If you have read the Invisibles then you may enjoy this reminiscence of the experience of reading it for the first time.
- Ninth Art: for the discerning reader
Minor pleasure of the day: getting 9A back on one of it's original two domains. If the person who jumped on ninthart.com the instant that ISP incompetence cause it to lapse is reading this: please can we have it back? There's still hundreds of links pointing to your site that are dead. I will buy you the domain of your choice in exchange?
- Android Isn’t About Building a Mobile Platform | TightWind
Solid analysis of Google's behaviour and strategy in respect of Android and the bigger picture. It's why I tend to call bullshit on their mantra a bit re: their evilness, because I would prefer to be the customer, not the product sold. I will admit that for a company set on selling me as a product, they provide a much better service than most in exchange, but even that's not all good, as it means they tend to blow away paid-for competition that does stuff (or might do stuff) better than they do.
Tag: comics
Bookmarks for November 18, 2010
- John Allison's UK Indie Comics Manifesto
Good, harsh, honest, smart. Worth reading.
- BBC vows action if ISPs throttle iPlayer
The BBC are squaring up to fight ISPs who indulge in traffic shaping/two-tier internet type behaviour that affects them, by making it clear when ISPs do so, and refusing to pay for faster deliverry. Which is good news, I guess. Here's hoping other big internet firms do the same.
- BBC News – Minister Ed Vaizey backs 'two-speed' internet
I'm getting kind of tired to linking to idiocy perpetrated by our governement. I can only assume that Ed Vaizey is either evil or a moron, because it is simple not reasonable that I should pay my ISP for a service, and them for them to tell me that I cannot have the level of service I want because *a third party* has not also paid them. *I* am paying for the fucking service. And while I appreciate that the counter argument is "well, then go elsewhere for your service", but what happens if there *is* no elsewhere to go, or when I'm locked in by a fixed term contract, the terms of which my ISP can vary, but I can't. Argle argle rant!
Bookmarks for November 1, 2010
- Steve Lieber And The Cellmate Test Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors
This made me laugh. Lads, if you are confused as to whether a compliment you are paying a lady is going to be taken as flattery, or if you're going to cross the line into creepy, her is a simple test that will save you more than 90% of the time: imagine yourself in jail, and imagine how you would feel if your hypothetical cellmate said exactly the same thing to you. Now do you see?
- His Face All Red
An absolute gem of a little horror comic. Serious, go read.
- Lizard Brain » Blog Archive » 100 Aspects of Genre: Learning from the Dead and the Dying
Nice post on the evolution of genre, and why some genres flourish, some mutate, and some die at different times.
Bookmarks for September 5, 2010
- No More Mutants by Andrew Wheeler #1 – Won’t You Take Me To Mutant Town?
Andrew's back writing about comics again, and specifically, about the (lack of) representation of those who are not straight, white, or male in the medium and the industry. I will follow this with interest, and I imagine a substantial number of my friends will as well.
Bookmarks for January 29, 2010
- Adria: elBulli Restaurant to Close for Two Years – TIME
Bugger. Eating at ElBulli was pretty much the top spot on the "things to do before I die" list, and yeah, he's going to re-open, but it's still an experience I'm unlikely to ever get to have, in it's current form. I shall revise it to "Eat Ferran Adria's food", but it's still saddening.
- stevenf.com – I need to talk to you about computers.
Excellent article on the place for an iPad in the history of computing, and the generation shift that is occurring. For myself, I am having to keep reminding myself that I don't need one as a priority, that version 2.0 will be much better, and so on and so forth. I really do want a decent ebook/magazine reader…
- xkcd: Spirit
I found today's XKCD near-heartbreaking on a number of levels. Why aren't we trying to get it home, for fuck's sake? I know it's not alive, but it's out there, and we're not even trying to go after it…
Bookmarks for November 2, 2009
- Vicious Imagery: New Home Office rules ban graphic novelist
Yet another example of the Home Office's new rules on artists visas hammering at the creative industry in the UK.
Bookmarks for September 10, 2009
- A glass act: sculptures of deadly viruses | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
I may have to go and look at these, if I can find the time.
- Superman 2000
The rejected pitched by Morrison, Millar, Peyer and Waid from 2000, when they were told they'd never be allowed to writer Superman. Quite a lot of this clearly showed up in All Star Superman, but still – it's a fun read.
Bookmarks for July 24, 2009
- San Diego, Why Don’t You Come To Your Senses?
Please, pass this link around. It's worth doing. Reblog, re-tweet, pass it on to your friends so they can do the same. If you are a geek or a nerd of any stripe, you should be aware that some small fraction of the money you spend on entertainment media is going to fuel homophobia (if you're giving money to companies that are then giving money to an operation that is fuelling homophobia, then yes, that *is* what is happening), and that this should be stopped. And unless they are publically shamed, then there is no reason for companies like Marvel to grow a spine. So you should circulate this link.
- Strange Fish Identification Site
It does exactly what it says on the tin. I have no use for this, but I love that it exists.
- Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good
Watching this, I had to keep reminding myself that he's a politician, and that his words are unlikely to be backed up by action, that he's not going to be called on the content of this speech, and that he has teams of people whose job it is to help him seem engaged, aware and generally serious about the world. Still: this is a good speech, talking sense, and it's quite nice to see him saying things I agree with 100%.
Bookmarks for July 10, 2009
- Top 10 comic book cities | The Critics | Architects Journal
Some really interesting picks here. I think I'm going to have to make efforts to acquire a few of the works mentioned in here that I've never read.
- Metropolitan Police Service – About the Met – Photography advice
Advice about dealing with Photographers given to officers by the Met. Sensible, clear, know your rights stuff. If an officer talking to you does *not* know your rights, then you might try giving them this, because after all, it's their boss telling them what they're allowed to do.
Bookmarks for March 27, 2009
- Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos
I've got a few different quotes I'd consider having put on me, and this place might provide inspiration for design/context for them.
- Daring Fireball: Obsession Times Voice
I don't have time to read this in full right now, so I'm bookmarking it so I remember to read it at some point over the weekend.
- Steve Lambert » SelfControl
Mac App to lock email/internet away for periods of time. Killer feature: once started, it cannot be undone, unlike most other, similar apps. Handy for those days when you really have to just dig in and get something done.
- glycon: Big Numbers #3
Alan Moore's Big Numbers #3, made available on-line with his blessing. To say this is a big unexpected would be understating things a bit, but well done that man.