Plot 101; worldbuilding 102; Wordpress gubbins … Continue reading “Links for 29-07-2008″

Schneier on security theatre; weapons-grade weed … Continue reading “Links for 28-07-2008″

Waking up; making art … Continue reading “Links for 26-07-2008″

UK copyright policing fiasco; the beginning of the end for software patents; paper-based transistors; comic-book Bardo Thodol … Continue reading “Links for 25-07-2008″

Tobacco to treat cancer; decision making is tiring (who knew?); porn is not recession-proof after all… Continue reading “Links for 24-07-2008″

Wealth and attractiveness; sustainable online book reviewing; lignin reaction for biofuels; geoengineering with lime … Continue reading “Links for 23-07-2008″

Sf ideas as plot enablers … Continue reading “Links for 22-07-2008″

No, not in that way[1]. And I hope you now have the Beach Boys tune stuck in your head for the next 24 hours. Ha hah! - my middle name is Spite[2].

What I mean is that, despite being resolutely silent here, I’ve been cropping up elsewhere.

• See me ask Iain M Banks about literary manifestos!
• Observe my curmudgeonly fizzog manifesting on Warren Ellis’ site[2]!

I know, I know - it’s all too much, isn’t it?

Talking about things being a bit all-too-much, it looks like an old friend colleague fellow blogger has resurfaced from the past. At the moment he seems to be retreading a familiar path to the one I met him on; as such, I shall be observing from a safe distance. Twice shy and all that, y’know.

Other me news (because it’s all about me, after all) - my holiday is totally freakin’ booked!

Your “cool [stuff/people/places] to [see/drink/eat/kill/dance with] in Berlin” tips will be much appreciated.

Oh, look - bedtime! Nighty-night, blogosphere.

[ 1 - Pure as driven snow, me. Driven down a London gutter in front of a snowplow, that is.]

[ 2 - Yeah, I know it's not - but once the deed poll paperwork clears... ]

[ 3 - Looks like a certain Shaun C Green made the cut, too, and a few people who I think I recognised but couldn't be sure of. ]

Alan Moore interview; Long Tail malarkey and the In Rainbows watershed; brainstorming; Shakespeare and functional shift… Continue reading “Links for 21-07-2008″

How to label nuclear waste sites; muddling through existential risk; race and genetics; laziness as inheritable attribute … Continue reading “Links for 20-07-2008″