As with many NYT articles (or even news in general?) the premise is more interesting than the article itself: cheap paintings from China, cranked out in bulk. My favortite bits: 1. The idea of thousands of artists, painting away for export (so very Bruce Sterling!), but they seem to do it as piecework in their […]
CNN reviews a raft of upcoming movies based on comic books and graphic novels. All indications are that Alan Moore no longer has anything to do with film adaptations, and has severed ties with DC because of their inability to maintain that separation.
The apparently lovely and talented Heather B. Armstrong has a post that made blogdex today. The rest of her site seems pleasing to me, too. Her monthly newsletters (well, the one I read) remind me of the best parts of Irony Central’s Story about the Baby.
94 year old Red Cross volunteer and WWII ambulance driver, Marilyn Benemen, walked down to the hospital to help out those injured in the recent London bombing: “Oh, when you’re Red Cross, you’re expected to do it. Oh, yes, if you’re in walking distance, I think you should turn up. And long as you can […]
Who’d have thunk it? I am: William Gibson The chief instigator of the “cyberpunk” wave of the 1980s, his razzle-dazzle futuristic intrigues were, for a while, the most imitated work in science fiction. Which science fiction writer are you?
The LoC has a “web magazine” to guide you to cool stuff in their collections. Which I suppose I could do, too, were I not so busy goofing off with Corbis.
Wow, it’s all about sheds. In the UK, where a shed is really a shed.
H5N1 (one of 15 Avian Influenza strains) has been simmering in Asia since December 2003, and has claimed at least 54 human and countless (more than 100 million as of last year) poultry lives. "Most influenza experts also agree that the prompt culling of Hong Kong’s entire poultry population [due to H5N1 infection] in 1997 […]
Here’s what I’ve read in June. Though I tell you while feeling inferior to DirtyLibrarian, who reads more and better than I do. (Y) means it is intended for teen readers.
This must have hit blogdex some time ago. I was reminded of it by reading The Year’s Best SF from 1997 or so. The referenced piece seems to typify a particular kind of hard SF that the editor apparently admires. Bleagh.