Warren Ellis's Blog, page 363

Good morning, inertnet.

(Paul Sizer)

I’ve refrained from blogging about this next site, because I wasn’t sure if it was a friends-of-friends deal, and I wasn’t sure how robust the site was. I’ve been assured that it’s public and strong. Therefore, my friends, I give you Permanent Bedtime.

Permanent Bedtime plays a complete edition of the BBC Shipping Forecast, including the preceding musical element to the Forecast, “Sailing By,” written by Ronald Binge.

The latenight edition of the Shipping Forecast has long been praised by the Br

BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Richard II porpoise recipe online
"Chefs searching for an authentic medieval way to roast a porpoise can now look up the recipe online."
(tags:food )Furniture on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
postrock/shoegaze/Malaysia
(tags:music )Against Self-Organization
Steven Shaviro on the Medea hypothesis
(tags:eco geo peopleiknow )I find your lack of faith disturbing: BOY IN THE BUBBLE
Josh Friedman on the cancellation of his tv show about a su

Out next week, 6 pages at CBR for your perusal, and thank god that one’s over:

From something apparently called Ned Hepburn, at something apparently called bonerparty, talking about women:

you have periods at the same time as other women just because you are in the same vicinity as them what the fuck is that about that is some fucking werewolf shit im fairly fucking sure

The other day, two large boxes arrived at my door from Scotland. "Finally, those small children I ordered!", I thought. But no. It was better. It was beer, from the craft brewery called Brew Dog, who felt I needed to discover their delicious falling-down water.

Tonight, I opened the first bottle, a thing called Punk IPA.

Oh my fucking god. You need to order this by the crate. That was the best IPA I’ve had in forever. Incredibly complex, waaaay too quaffable, summer fruit and caramel but crisp a

From a blogpost here about digital urbanism, I find a few sentences that describe perfectly the digital curation of linkblogging and the wunderkammer-stocking process and the intent behind them — and, perhaps, why the early internet was always destined to fill up with people doing the BoingBoing thing at home:

The Digital has an uncanny historical bent. It allows for and thrives on richer, more intense and diverse readings of the past. We are unburying the marginal, the secondary, the almost forg

Because you were obviously far too happy today, those cheerful scamps at ComingAnarchy have brought you a collection of films about nuclear armageddon. It includes THREADS, which utterly fried my brain in 1984 and helped make me the pure source of joy you know today.

Jones pointed me at this the other week, and I’m only just catching up. From a long piece on a social geography/location awareness/digital mapping conference:

As I mentioned before, many of the ideas raised at Where 2.0 were unpacked and worked through at WhereCamp. For example, Aaron (Straup Cope) introduced a word psychosynthography in the last 24 seconds of his talk at Where 2.0.

So I spent as much time as I could listening to Aaron at WhereCamp, and asking him about psychosynthography and more

My friend Trixie Bedlam’s bailing out of NYC and headed for Detroit, presumably to capture the last days of the American Empire and watch a city crumble into the sea. Trixie, who among other things is a gallery-exhibited photographer, obsessively updates her Flickr stream with photos of her velocity. You should follow it.

1. motoring, 2. NMA, 3. 25% packed